March 2010 - News - emrupdate.com

Gleeman’s Daily News—03/23/10

Protests of new health care law continue Demonstrators in Royal Oak, Michigan rallied for a state ballot initiative opposing the new federal health care law. President Obama is set to go to Iowa this week to begin building public support for the...

Published Tue, Mar 23 2010 1:41 AM by Robert Gleeman

Gleeman’s Daily News—03/22/10

House votes Yes on health care reform bill (Reuters) - The House of Representatives gave final approval to a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Sunday, expanding insurance coverage to nearly all Americans and handing President Barack Obama a landmark...

Published Mon, Mar 22 2010 2:03 AM by Robert Gleeman

22.03.2010 iMDsoft and Dominion join forces in Spain

iMDsoft has further expanded the scope of its operations in Spain with a new distribution agreement with Dominion, one of the largest technology groups in the country. This partnership will complement Dominion’s existing healthcare IT offerings with iMDsoft's...

Published Mon, Mar 22 2010 12:05 AM by iMDsoft Clinical Information Systems – News

6.01.2010 MetaVision chosen by Hospital MAZ, Zaragoza

Hospital MAZ, Zaragoza, Spain, will implement MetaVision in its ICU. iMDsoft and Sinapsis cooperated to bring about this solution. Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 20 2010 6:39 PM by iMDsoft Clinical Information Systems – News

Gleeman’s Daily News—03/19/10

Pelosi gives health care bill’s main points before Sunday’s vote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi highlights the health care reform plan at the Capitol on Thursday. Washington (CNN) -- Democratic congressional leaders unveiled their long-awaited $940...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 2:05 AM by Robert Gleeman

Website News Area Upgrade

The website news content area has moved over to a content management based solution which permits events information to be centrally managed and distributed through Internet standard methods. Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 5:43 PM by Celerity News

Filed under: Commercial Practice, Public Practice, National

New Collaboration to Find Therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease

The University of Pennsylvania and AstraZeneca today announced a new collaborative research agreement to make use of their respective talents and resources in an effort to bridge the transition from drug discovery to development.

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 10:00 AM by Penn Medicine News

Gleeman’s Daily News—03/18/10

How does the use of the emergency room figure into health care reform? BARACK OBAMA and allied supporters of Democratic health-care plans say that one reason the system needs change is that the uninsured find care anyway—via the emergency room...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 1:19 AM by Robert Gleeman

HIMSS Video Profile: MEDHOST

Patricia Daiker, vice president of marketing for MEDHOST, spoke with DOTmed News at the recent HIMSS conference about OpCenter, the company's latest tool to help hospital executives manage patient throughput. OpCenter is designed to improve the efficiency...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 5:00 PM by MEDHOST Media Center

A Direct Explanation of NHIN Direct

Ever since ONC unveiled its vision for NHIN Direct, I’ve gotten many questions that indicate there’s a lot of confusion out there about what the NHIN initiative is and what it isn’t. In several presentations given by members of the ONC, I’ve heard very...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 12:27 PM by Medicity

Filed under: EHR, HIE Insights, health information exchange, nhin

Penn Researchers Clarify Cause of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Penn researchers have made a surprising discovery regarding the molecular basis underlying spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an often fatal neurodegenerative disease and the most common genetic cause of childhood mortality.

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 10:00 AM by Penn Medicine News

Gleeman’s Daily News—03/17/10

Sensitivity to Warfarin determined by genetic test Doctors say it can take weeks of blood tests and dose adjustments to determine the right Warfarin dose for patients The clinical study led by two leading medical researchers -- Medco Research Institute...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 1:42 AM by Robert Gleeman

Penn Study Investigates Financial Incentives for Kidney Donation

In the first empirical study of how Americans might make decisions if offered financial incentives for kidney donation while alive, Penn researchers found that the offer of payment did not cloud a person’s judgment of the risks associated with live kidney...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 4:00 PM by Penn Medicine News

Cancer News is Potentially Misleading, Penn Researchers Find

News coverage of aggressive cancer treatments may give the public unrealistic hope that these treatments actually work. Additionally, news about treatment failure, adverse events, and end-of-life care are covered far less by the news media. These are...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 11:00 AM by Penn Medicine News

Gleeman’s Daily News—03/16/10

Crime-fighters may someday track a suspect’s bacteria Steve Miller, CIRES A new technique developed at CU‑Boulder to identify individuals by the unique communities of hand bacteria they leave behind on objects they have handled may prove to be...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 1:32 AM by Robert Gleeman

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