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An ISET Healthcare portal for medical professionals in the Middle East Wednesday 10th March 2010
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By: admin on March 4, 2010
 Atlanta – Soon after The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its proposed rules for “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs) on December 30, 2009, Siemens asked two prominent chief nursing officers (CNO) how the new guidelines support nurses’ commitment to quality patient care delivery, enhance their care documentation capabilities, and can spur [...]
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By: admin on March 4, 2010
 DNA vaccines developer Inovio Biomedical Corp said on Wednesday that it has launched its new CELLECTRA-SP series of hand-held, cordless electroporation devices for delivering DNA vaccines.
The new device, unveiled at the DNA Vaccines 2010 conference being held in New Orleans, is designed to facilitate mass vaccination.
According to Inovio, existing electroporation systems consist of an electrical [...]
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By: admin on March 3, 2010
 Hala Abu DhabiPLYMOUTH MEETING, PAâECRI InstituteÂź (www.ecri.org), an independent nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, announces the addition of interactive Flash-based courses to its online continuing medical education (CME) program, e-Learnâą. e-Learnâs catalog of over 100 patient safety and risk management courses for healthcare professionals is accredited by the Accreditation [...]
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By: snigdha on March 2, 2010
 Fast foods have been a rage for atleast two decades now. With fast food companies burgeoning today and offering palatable meals on a budget, it is hardly a surprise that they attract millions of us world over. Very recently, McDonald’s nationally rolled out a Dollar Breakfast Menu in January, followed by Burger King that tried to [...]
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By: admin on March 1, 2010
 Microorganisms are found everywhere although  most of them are harmless, but their presence can do a lot of damage in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals or in tissue transplants. Now with the aid of a new device, germs can be detected in artificial cartilage within a few hours.
It is known that we are surrounded by microorganisms. They [...]
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By: snigdha on March 1, 2010
 Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stenting Trial (CREST), a federally funded study was conducted to compare the results of traditional heart surgery vs. a new, less invasive procedure called stenting to eradicate plaques in clogged neck arteries, also called carotid arteries. Study findings revealed that carotid artery stenting would be as safe and effective as carotid [...]
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By: snigdha on March 1, 2010
 Bisophenol A (BPA) is a chemical commonly found in polycarbonate plastic bottles and the aluminium lining of food andbeverage cans. A new research done on mice found that mouse pups born to mothers who were exposed to a high content of bisophenol A were at a higher risk of developing asthma.
The results of the study [...]
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By: admin on February 28, 2010
 Dubai: Abu Dhabi’s implementation of compulsory health insurance in 2006 has left Dubai lagging behind in its health insurance reforms.
Dubai had planned to follow in the footsteps of Abu Dhabi’s mandatory health care insurance scheme but, owing to a change in the financial climate, the scheme was suspended, leaving a large percentage of low-income foreign [...]
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By: admin on February 28, 2010
 Siemens Health-care has introduced an automated breast volume scanner (ABVS) at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre in Mumbai. The ABVS automatically acquires volume images of the breast, helping in comprehensive screening of breast using ultrasound.
Acuson S2000, an ultrasound system by Siemens Healthcare uses the technology of ABVS, which comfortably images patients with dense breast tissue [...]
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By: admin on February 26, 2010
 February 25, 2010 â US The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced a new partnership to speed the biomedical advances their processing time  and movement through the regulatory process required for clinical application.
The new partnership was made public yesterday in a briefing on the NIH campus [...]
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By: snigdha on February 25, 2010
 According to a commentary published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pfizer’s experimental osteoporosis drug lasofoxifene, which is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval, works about as well as currently approved drugs, but not much better.
Overall, lasofoxifene looks good, according to lead study author Dr. Steven Cummings, professor and director of the San Francisco [...]
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By: snigdha on February 25, 2010
 A new and interesting study found that sleep is not important just for children; a mid-day nap of about 90 minutes benefits adults as well. This nap supposedly primes the brain and improves learning capacity and therefore boosts mental performance.
The University of California presented the study findings at the annual meeting of the American Association [...]
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By: snigdha on February 25, 2010
 A study that included 150 women who were 12-14 weeks pregnant with major depression concluded that acupuncture might provide relief from depression when these women were randomly assigned to undergo the procedure.
According to the National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, acupuncture is based on ancient Chinese medicine, and attempts to treat conditions by stimulating [...]
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By: snigdha on February 25, 2010
 Strangely, the incidence of strokes has been going down in the old and going up in the young, a group that was previously never considered being at high risk for the debilitating and deadly condition, caused by a blood clot or bleeding in the brain.
According to new data, the incidence rates of strokes that occurred [...]
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By: snigdha on February 25, 2010
 A U.S. National Institutes of Health draft consensus statement released a suggestion that most people who think they are lactose intolerant, may actually not be. This revelation paved a way for these individuals to continue consuming adequate quantities of dairy products to provide for their required dietary intake of calcium and vitamin D.
Lactose intolerance is [...]
Written By: admin on March 10, 2010
Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., has started a concept of updating its emergency department waiting time by means of text messages, telephone and its Web site.
âWaiting Timeâ is the average time from when a patient checks in and is triaged to the time they are placed in a room where treatment begins. The times are [...]
Written By: admin on March 9, 2010
DOHA: Providing high level healing in a comforting environment, the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Qtel yesterday launched the Fahad bin Jassim Kidney Center. The opening of the center comes as a fitting tribute to kick off a week-long World Kidney Day activities.
âThe Kidney centre aims to secure world class healthcare services as in all [...]
Written By: admin on March 9, 2010
Health Level SevenÂź International (HL7Âź), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, recently announced that it has published the Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health (as also specified in HITSPâs Interoperability Specification IS01).
 The implementation guide is directly related to the initial set of standards and certification [...]
Written By: admin on March 9, 2010
Some 900 vendors exhibited at the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta and that means multiple announcements about new products, features or services. Among them:
The Take Care Health System subsidiary of Walgreen’s will use in some 380 worksite health clinics the practice management and electronic health records software of Greenway Medical Technologies Inc., Carrollton, Ga. In [...]
Written By: admin on March 8, 2010
Saying ICD-10 holds potential to surpass even Y2K’s cost and impact, DeloitteConsulting has published a list of the ten most important things that the providers should understand right now about the conversion. The consultancy is not alone in warning that advance planning is essential to a successful ICD-10 implementation, particularly for healthcare organizations to achieve business value [...]
Written By: admin on March 8, 2010
The NeuroMind mobile application, developed by DigitalNeurosurgeon.com, is a good resource for surgeons, featuring beautiful hi-res images. It’s not without usability issues – the free version I’m running on my iPhone had me constantly zooming to make use of the images. The app provides great hi-resolution diagrams for surgeons to reference, but blowing them up [...]
Written By: admin on March 8, 2010
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Inc., the Salt Lake City-based health information exchange (HIE) company, has announced iNexx, its new “Health 4.0″ platform, which bridges systems, networks and people to create a care model that keeps the patient as the focus at all times. iNexx connects cloud services, bricks-and-mortar clinical, administrative, and financial networks, local applications such as PMS and [...]
Written By: admin on March 8, 2010
CHICAGO â The American Medical Association (AMA) is offering physicians across the country a new online platform for access to an electronic health system from Ingenix, called CareTracker.
The AMA announced recently that it had selected Ingenix CareTracker as the first EHR system offered through the AMA’s new online health information solutions platform for physicians. The [...]
Written By: admin on March 7, 2010
HIMSS Analytics, devised the EMR Adoption Model to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems called the EMRAM. The EMRAM scores hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics Database on their progress in completing the 8 stages to creating a paperless patient record environment as shown in the figure below:
HIMSS EMR Adoption Model
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 EMR Adoption Model Structure Ensures [...]
Written By: admin on March 6, 2010
Canada-based Cynoprod, in partnership with Jordanian investor Zaher Al Masri, has launched a dental manufacturing centre in Amman, Jordan. The investment cost of Cynoprod’s Jordan is estimated at $2m in addition to a research and development investment of over $130m.
source: ameinfo.com
Written By: admin on March 6, 2010
Health information exchange (HIE) – in particular the electronic sharing of laboratory results are a matter of concern. In lieu of the same, The National Academy for State Health Policy, U.S., has launched State and national initiatives using HIE which are gaining momentum in the wake of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) that provides [...]
Written By: admin on March 6, 2010
Sebia has unveiled the latest addition to its automated capillary electrophoresis portfolio, the innovative Capillarys 2 Flex Piercing for clinical diagnostic laboratories.
Based on the proven technology of the original Capillarys instrument, the new system features cap piercing for analysis of whole blood directly from primary sample tubes.
For haemoglobinopathy testing, the new cap-piercing capability streamlines workflow [...]
Written By: admin on March 5, 2010
ATLANTA â The biggest challenge in healthcare delivery is the fragmentation of the system and the clinical information gaps that result, according to Susan DeVore, president and CEO of the Premier healthcare alliance.
DeVore spoke at a âViews from the Topâ session on Tuesday at the 2010 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition. Premier is one of [...]
Written By: admin on March 5, 2010
ATLANTA – In his inaugural appearance at HIMSS10, David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology reiterated his support for healthcare IT, calling information the “lifeblood of medicine.” Healthcare IT is “destined to be its circulatory system,” he said.
As long as the focus is kept on the value to patients and the promise to [...]
Written By: admin on March 4, 2010
Quest Diagnostics, a provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, has confirmed its role as product provider at the InnovHealth 2010 summit in Abu Dhabi.
Commenting on the company’s attendance, Quest Diagnostic’s International Business Development director, Robert Quinn said: “Our company is uniquely positioned to meet the needs and demands of international laboratory services through our [...]
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