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Healthtech Assists Clients With Sector-Wide Challenges
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 05/24/13 -- Editors' Note: There is a photo associate with this release. Every healthcare organization is unique, but many challenges are shared. In response to...
Molina Healthcare of California Selected to Participate in the Covered California Marketplace
Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Molina Healthcare of California, has been selected by Covered California to offer certified Q...
WebMD to Present at the Cowen and Company 41st Annual Technology, Media & Telecom Conference
NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WebMD Health Corp. (Nasdaq: WBMD) today announced that David J. Schlanger, Interim Chief Executive Officer, will deliver a presentation at the Cowen and Com...
Alere to Attend Jefferies 2013 Global Healthcare Conference on June 4th
WALTHAM, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alere Inc. (NYSE: ALR), a global leader in enabling individuals to take charge of their health at home through the merger of rapid diagnostics...
Alere to Attend Goldman Sachs 34th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on June 13th
WALTHAM, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alere Inc. (NYSE: ALR), a global leader in enabling individuals to take charge of their health at home through the merger of rapid diagnostics...
Amedisys to Present at Investor Conferences
Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), one of America's leading home health and hospice companies, today announced that it will participate in the following upcoming investor conferences:...
Aetna Announces Appearance at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual Health Care Conference
Aetna (NYSE: AET) announced today that Shawn M. Guertin, senior vice president and CFO, is scheduled to make a presentation at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual Health Care Con...
U.S. Physical Therapy to Present at the 38th Annual dbAccess Health Care Conference
U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. (NYSE: USPH), a national operator of physical and occupational therapy outpatient clinics (the “Company”), today announced that its Chief Financial...
WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is proud to launch the Information Is Powerful Medicine campaign. Th...
Health Care Management Suite Helps Employees Reduce Costs, Increase Engagement and Improve Outcomes ConAgra Foods, one of North America’s leading packaged food compan...
Events
2nd Annual Forum on Global Publication Planning and Clinical Trial Registries
Attend this highly anticipated forum to learn more about how professionals working in publication planning and clinical trial disclosure can coordinate data sharing to ensure transparency.
Digitial Health Forum for Investors and Industry 2013
Taking place at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. DHF13 is an invitation only showcase for ‘transaction-ready’ digital health companies.
Companies
Astellas Pharma Inc., located in Tokyo, Japan, is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceuticals...
Working closely with payers nationwide, including Blues plans, regional payers, and national carriers, RxEOB allows health plans to maximize the value of their pharmacy programs--reducing costs while...
The Vitality Group is a member of Discovery Ltd., offering the incentive-based wellness program to employers as part of their benefits program. With a foundation based on a...
HomecareCRM, LLC, is the homecare and long-term care industryâs leading customer relationship management solution provider, delivering the first and most robust solution spec...
The Healthcare Innovation Council is an independent group of healthcare experts that generates and publicly shares innovative ideas about how U.S. hospitals and healthcare provide...
Health & Parenting Ltd provides a range of family-related applications for iPod, iPhone and Android. These include a pregnancy, fertility and period app. Health & Parenting Ltd of...
Audax Health Solutions is a newly-established, Washington-based organization committed to helping individuals manage and improve their healthcare experiences through a combination...
Health Discovery Corporation is a molecular diagnostics company that uses advanced mathematical techniques to analyze large amounts of data to uncover patterns that might otherwis...
SunLink Health Systems, Inc. currently operates seven community hospitals, three hospital-based nursing homes, and one hospital-based home care business in the Southeast and Midwe...
Led by Joseph Paduda, Health Strategy Associates (www.healthstrategyassoc.com) is a national consulting firm serving insurers, employers and health care providers. Pharmacy costs...
Clinical Trials
Study of Markers of Cosmic Radiation Exposure and Effect Among Flight Crews
Ionizing radiation efficiently induces chromosomal aberrations (CA) and several studies of CA have now been conducted among small groups of flight crews. However, most of the studies only...
Background: - BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations have been linked to a higher risk of developing breast cancer and other cancers, and may be associated with types of breast cancer that are mo...
Intravitreal LFG316 in Patients With Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
This study is designed to test the efficacy of twelve successive monthly doses of intravitreal (IVT) LFG316 on the growth of geographic atrophy (GA) lesions. The study will also provide in...
Retinoblastoma Survivor Study: Assessment of General Health and Quality of Life
The purpose of this study is to find out about the quality of life and health in a group of adults who had retinoblastoma when they were children. By quality of life, we mean how you are f...
Testing the Helpfulness of 2 Decision Aids for Prostate Cancer
The purpose of this study is to test different methods for communicating information about prostate cancer treatment to men. The investigators are studying how best to present information...
Characterization of Receptors in Non-functioning Pituitary Macroadenomas
Characterization of receptors present in non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas by Reverse Transcriptase- Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) would assist with targeted medical therapy bas...
Autoimmunity in Sisters of Lupus Patients
This study enrolled over 400 unaffected sisters of young women diagnosed with SLE. These unaffected sisters are being followed with an annual health questionnaire (CSQ) and blood sample.
Evaluation of the Healthy Families Alaska Program
This study will assess the effectiveness of early home visitation by a professional in preventing child maltreatment, promoting healthy family functioning, and promoting child health and d...
The objective is to obtain initial information regarding the safety and efficacy of the use of Filgrastim in the setting of acute myocardial infarction. The secondary objectives are to ob...
Can Screening People Registering With Primary Care Improve the Detection of Tuberculosis?
This randomised controlled trial tests whether screening people registering with general practices cost-effectively increases the detection of tuberculosis. The study objectives are to:...
PubMed Articles
To ensure reliable telecare services some user authentication schemes for telecare medical information system (TMIS) have been presented in literature. These schemes are proposed with intent to regula...
A smart-card based authentication scheme for telecare medicine information systems enables patients, doctors, nurses, health visitors and the medicine information systems to establish a secure communi...
Wireless technologies as part of the data communication infrastructure of modern hospitals are being rapidly introduced. Even though there are concerns about problems associated with wireless communic...
The integrated EPR information system supports convenient and rapid e-medicine services. A secure and efficient authentication scheme for the integrated EPR information system provides safeguarding pa...
Web information retrieval for health professionals.
This paper presents a Web Information Retrieval System (WebIRS), which is designed to assist the healthcare professionals to obtain up-to-date medical knowledge and information via the World Wide Web...
Facebook as a platform for health information and communication: a case study of a diabetes group.
As one of the largest social networking sites in the world, Facebook holds a great potential for promoting health. In this exploratory study, we analyzed 1352 messages posted to an active Facebook dia...
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine helps to prevent cervical cancer. However, research indicates that public acceptance of the vaccine is suboptimal. Our aims were to evaluate the willingness of U...
Connected health care has several applications including telecare medicine information system, personally controlled health records system, and patient monitoring. In such applications, user authentic...
Feature-reduction and semi-simulated data in functional connectivity-based cortical parcellation.
Recently, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used to parcellate the brain into functionally distinct regions based on the information available in functional connectivity map...
Numerical quantity affects time estimation in the suprasecond range.
Of stimuli differing in the magnitude of their numerical information, the one with the larger numerosity is perceived to last longer than that with the smaller numerosity. This numerosity-time interac...
Videos
Health Information Technology
Health Information Technology (Health IT) has become a top priority in the US. The use of technology to electronically use and exchange health information se...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Comprehension
The act or fact of grasping the meaning, nature, or importance of; understanding. (American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed) Includes understanding by a patient or research subject of information disclosed orally or in writing.
Duty To Recontact
The ethical and/or legal obligation of a health provider or researcher to communicate with a former patient or research subject about advances in research relevant to a treatment or to a genetic or other diagnostic test provided earlier, or about proposed new uses of blood or tissue samples taken in the past for another purpose.
Incidental Findings
Unanticipated information discovered in the course of testing or medical care. Used in discussions of information that may have social or psychological consequences, such as when it is learned that a child's biological father is someone other than the putative father, or that a person tested for one disease or disorder has, or is at risk for, something else.
Information Dissemination
The circulation or wide dispersal of information.
Interdisciplinary Communication
Communication, in the sense of cross-fertilization of ideas, involving two or more academic disciplines (such as the disciplines that comprise the cross-disciplinary field of bioethics, including the health and biological sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences and law). Also includes problems in communication stemming from differences in patterns of language usage in different academic or medical disciplines.
