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Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers. It refers to the work done in providing primary care, secondary care and tertiary care, as well as in public health.
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Orexigen Therapeutics to Present at the UBS Global Healthcare Conference
SAN DIEGO, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Orexigen® Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX) today announced that management will present a company overview at the UBS Global Healthcare Conference in...
Onyx M.D. Launches New Website With Interactive Physician Executive Blog
DENVER, CO -- (Marketwired) -- 05/20/13 -- U.S. Physician Staffing firm Onyx M.D. launches a new website with a variety of new, innovative features that allow viewers to easily connect, share and int...
H&Q Healthcare Investors Declares Stock Distribution
On May 17, 2013, H&Q Healthcare Investors declared a stock distribution of $0.42 per share. The record date for the stock distribution is May 28, 2013 and the payable date is...
American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust II Makes First Acquisition
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust II, Inc. ("ARC HT II") announced today that it closed on its first acquisition – a Fresenius dialysis center...
Capio AB: Capio publishes Annual Review 2012
Capio, one of Sweden's and Europe's leading healthcare companies, publishes its Annual Review for 2012. Capio Annual Review 2012 presents Capio’s views and experiences...
Waters Corporation Presentation at the UBS 2013 Global Healthcare Conference to Be Webcast Live
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) John Ornell, Chief Financial Officer, will speak to the investment community at the UBS 2013 Global Healthcare Conference at the Sheraton New York Ho...
Home Health Leaders Call for Targeted Program Integrity Reforms to Prevent Medicare Fraud
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On behalf of the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare - a coalition of community - and hospital-based home healthcare agencies dedicated to...
Solutionreach and Google Now Announce Partnership
LEHI, Utah, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Solutionreach, the leader in patient engagement software for the healthcare industry, announced that their appointment reminders will now be available in Googl...
HealthSparq to Reveal New Healthcare Transparency Benchmark Study at AHIP Institute 2013
PORTLAND, Ore., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthSparq, a trusted provider of healthcare transparency solutions to many of the nation's largest regional health plans, will debut a n...
North America Home Healthcare Market Worth $130.4 Billion by 2017
DALLAS, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The "North American Home Healthcare Market, By Product [Blood Glucose Meter, ECG, IV Equipment, Nutrition, Wheelchair, Fitness, Heart Rate Monitor, Pregnancy Test...
Events
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Clinical Analytics for Decision Support Conference
Actionable patient data for enhanced clinical outcomes
US Healthcare and Life Sciences Conference 2013
The conference will focus on the practicalities of dealing with the provisions and impacts of US healthcare reform-taking its core theme as "Transformation Beyond Reform".
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.
11th Annual Pricing and Reimbursement Conference
Develop your market access and pricing strategy through key policy, referencing and HTA practice updates in regulated and emerging markets
Companies
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...
Audax Health Solutions is a newly-established, Washington-based organization committed to helping individuals manage and improve their healthcare experiences through a combination...
Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc.
Located in Irvington, New York, Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc. is a marketer and distributor of brand name over-the-counter healthcare, household and personal care products sold t...
Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Southern California Chapter
The HBA is in its fourth decade as a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to furthering the advancement of women in healthcare worldwide. With 15 chapters and affiliates t...
Darien, IL- based Healthation is a healthcare technology company helping payers and administrators improve business performance with user-driven rules-based benefits management and transaction pro...
HealthCare Anytimeâs patient engagement solutions give healthcare organizations the ability to help patients achieve meaningful engagement in their own healthcare by providin...
Tulsa, Ok.-based SayAh is a developer of proprietary, innovative, web-based technologies specifically designed for the healthcare industry. With SayAhâs Reputation Management...
Xenex Healthcare Services and Bert Fish Medical Center
Xenex's patented pulsed xenon UV room disinfection systems are utilized for the advanced cleaning of the patient environment in healthcare facilities. The Xenex system is the fast...
Vitera Healthcare Solutions, formerly Sage Healthcare, provides end-to-end clinical and financial technology solutions to more than 400,000 healthcare professionals including 80,0...
API Healthcare and TeleTracking Technologies
API Healthcare (www.apihealthcare.com), the largest healthcare-specific vendor focused on workforce management solutions, is also the architect of the Healthcare Workforce Informa...
Clinical Trials
To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Vanquix for the management of selected, refractory, patients with epilepsy who require intermittent medical intervention provided by caregivers who a...
Non Interventional Post Marketing Programme in Acromegaly
The purpose of this study, is to assess the safety and local tolerability of the long-term use of Somatuline Autogel when administered by patients or their partners ("Home Injection Group"...
The objective of this NIS is to assess in a real-life setting, usage patterns and associated outcomes in the management (healthcare resource utilisation and associated costs) of patients w...
Parkinson's Disease Registry of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center
The purpose of the Parkinson’s disease Registry is to develop a national and international database of persons with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The Registry will be used to facilitate t...
Rhythm Disturbances After Ventricular Septal Defects
We would like to conduct a retrospective chart review examining the incidence of surgical heart block in children treated in the Cardiac Service Line at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta....
Type II Supracondylar Fractures in Children
Supracondylar fractures are the most common elbow fractures in children. In the current orthopedic literature crossed pinning and lateral-only entry techniques are co-gold standards of op...
Comparison of Patient Outcomes Using Different Delivery Models of Anticoagulation Care
Hypothesis: Does the time spent within the target INR range differ when patients are managed by AMD or IT models of anticoagulation care? Experimental Design: The 36-month trial enrolled...
An RCT on Preventing Pressure Ulcers With Wheelchair Seat Cushions
The primary aim of the proposed multi-site, randomized pressure-reducing wheelchair trial (PRWC-II) is to determine the efficacy of pressure-reducing cushions in preventing sitting-acquire...
Ventricular Synchrony in Pediatric Patients
At Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, children who have irregular heart rhythms are often referred for evaluation. Sometimes they also need a procedure to correct their irregular heart rhyt...
Posterior IVS Versus Sacrospinous Suspension in Vaginal Vault Prolapse Repair
Hypothesis / aims of study The aim of this multicentre study is to evaluate anatomical and functional results of an innovative posterior tape in vaginal prolapse repair by vaginal route, i...
PubMed Articles
This retrospective analysis of hip fracture patients with and without muscle atrophy/weakness (MAW) revealed that those with MAW had significantly higher healthcare utilization and costs compared with...
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...
INTRODUCTION. Epilepsy is a chronic illness that requires a long-term periodic follow-up of the patient and this means that as time goes by the number of patients attended increases, with the ensuing...
BACKGROUND: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common form of acute leukemia affecting adults, with incidence increasing with patient age. Previous studies have found that older AML patients, co...
Legal position of non-medical personnel in hospitals.
There are currently many assistant professions in the German healthcare system which have either a more nursing or a more medical character. All these assistant professions have in common that as yet...
Clinical decision support for drug-drug interactions: Improvement needed.
Mobile Mammography in Underserved Populations: Analysis of Outcomes of 3,923 Women.
Mobile health units are increasingly utilized to address barriers to mammography screening. Despite the existence of mobile mammography outreach throughout the US, there is a paucity of data describin...
SUMMARY It is unknown which intervention strategies are used or effective to increase influenza vaccine uptake by healthcare workers (HCWs) in acute hospitals in England. We undertook a survey in acut...
Measuring fragmentation of ambulatory care in a tripartite healthcare system.
BACKGROUND: Hong Kong has a tripartite healthcare system, where western medicine provided in both public and private sectors coexist with Chinese medicine practice. The purpose of this study is to mea...
Assessment of Case Definitions for Identifying Acute Liver Injury in Large Observational Databases.
BACKGROUND: Determining the aetiology of acute liver injury (ALI) may be challenging to both clinicians and researchers. Observational research is particularly useful in studying rare medical outcomes...
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Healthcare System Overview
Learn more: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=LMHxxvbzFqc The different roles in the healthcare system.
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
Uniform method for health care providers and medical suppliers to report professional services, procedures, and supplies. It consists of alphanumeric codes and modifiers for the use of all public and private health insurers. It is developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Consumer Health Information
Information intended for potential users of medical and healthcare services. There is an emphasis on self-care and preventive approaches as well as information for community-wide dissemination and use.
Advanced Practice Nursing
Evidence-based nursing, midwifery and healthcare grounded in research and scholarship. Practitioners include nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwives.
Health Level Seven
An American National Standards Institute-accredited organization working on specifications to support development and advancement of clinical and administrative standards for healthcare.
United States Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality
An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and timely dissemination of information on research, demonstration projects, and evaluations with respect to health care to public and private entities and individuals engaged in the improvement of health care delivery..." It supersedes the National Center for Health Services Research. The United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research was renamed Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999.
