What is Healthcare? - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Healthcare (health-care) is broadly defined as any care, service, or supply related to the physical or mental health and well-being of an individual through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions. . Some examples are doctors, physician, hospital profesionals, diagnostic tests, and pharmaceutical drug suppliers.
News Articles
GE Capital Provides $7.5 Million Term Loan Facility to OraMetrix, Inc.
GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services announced today that it is serving as administrative agent and sole lender on a $7.5 million multi-draw senior secured term loan f...
MARIETTA, Ga., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Feosol® Iron Supplements, distributed by Meda Consumer Healthcare's US headquarters in Marietta, Georgia, has been awarded the #1 Pharmacist Recommend...
Convergent Announces John Frenzel as Chief Financial Officer for Healthcare Division
Former Chief Financial Officer from Conifer Health Solutions joins Convergent’s healthcare division. Convergent Revenue Cycle Management, Inc., a leading provider of revenue...
The South Coast Business and Technology Awards have named Barbara Rosenblum, founder and chief executive officer of Strategic Healthcare Programs, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) h...
Expert Panel to Discuss Suicide Crisis
Symposium to examine health providers’ role in better assessing those at risk Suicides are expected to reach an all-time high of 40,000 in the United States this year...
Crothall Healthcare: Standards Fit for a Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association
WAYNE, Pa., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Crothall Healthcare announced its third certification by the ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, by completing the requirements for CIMS (...
Centene Corporation To Present At Wells Fargo 2013 Healthcare Conference
ST. LOUIS, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today it will present at the Wells Fargo Securities Research and Economics 2013 Healthcare Conference, to be...
EPIC's second video in healthcare series offers a clear, concise overview of the Affordable Care Act
SAN FRANCISCO, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- EPIC, a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and consultancy, announced today their release of the second in a series of Hea...
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) John Ornell, Chief Financial Officer, will speak to the investment community at the Wells Fargo Securities 2013 Healthcare Conference at the InterCon...
Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH) today announced that, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Molina Center LLC, it has successfully completed a sale and lease back transaction w...
Events
Clinical Analytics for Decision Support Conference
Actionable patient data for enhanced clinical outcomes
Companies
ClearBalance is the premier provider of patient-friendly loan programs. Since 1992, ClearBalance has helped its healthcare clients streamline the revenue cycle and efficiently res...
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving peopleâs lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthc...
NavigatorMD, Inc., created to empower the transformation of Healthcare in America, is accelerating change in the way healthcare benefit plans are delivered, measured, managed and financed. Charac...
Strategic Healthcare Programs, LLC
Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc.
Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc. offers an array of healthcare-related services to consumers, hospitals, healthcare systems, health plans and local, state and national governmen...
MDSave is a consumer-driven healthcare technology company based in Brentwood, Tenn. MDSave uses e-commerce technologies to lower the cost of healthcare for consumers and inc...
Based in San Francisco, Healthspottr Media LLC is a new media and publishing company focused on covering innovative solutions to healthcare's most serious challenges. Through its flagship weekly web d...
Envision Healthcare Corporation
Envision Healthcare Corporation (âEnvision Healthcareâ), formerly known as Emergency Medical Services Corporation, offers an array of healthcare-related services to cons...
Founded in 2007, Star Life Sciences is the life sciences division of Star Group Communications, offering a wide range of integrated healthcare communications services to he...
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...
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...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common disease that has a chronic and progressive course. Patients with COPD may have exacerbations one to four times in a year. Numbers o...
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"...
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...
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...
Using administrative data healthcare databases from five Canadian provinces, we compared prevalence estimates of diagnosed osteoporosis and incidence rates for related fractures in Canada. The algorit...
Rapid-acting glutamatergic antidepressants: the path to ketamine and beyond.
Traditional antidepressants require many weeks to reveal their therapeutic effects. However, the widely replicated observation that a single subanesthetic dose of the N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate re...
Implementation of a pharmacist-managed heart failure medication titration clinic.
The development, implementation, and initial results of a pharmacist-managed heart failure (HF) medication titration clinic are described.
BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers' (HCWs) uniforms become contaminated with bacteria during normal use, and this may contribute to hospital-acquired infections. Antimicrobial uniforms are currently marke...
International experiences with priority setting in healthcare.
PURPOSE: The erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), darbepoetin alfa (DA), and epoetin alfa (EA) differ with respect to dosing schedule in chemotherapy-induced anemia. DA can be administered less f...
To perform mutation analysis for a female with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) and provide pre-symptomatic and prenatal diagnosis.
Application of Array-CGH and MLPA for detection of 4 cryptic unbalanced translocations.
To use array comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) to detect unbalanced rearrangements in 4 cases suspected to have chromosome disea...
Healthcare students should comply with the same vaccination recommendations as employed healthcare professionals. Vaccination coverage data for healthcare students are lacking
Videos
Mass Appeal Attend this year's Healthcare Expo
It's time to get healthy! Learn more about the upcoming Healthcare Expo presented by Health New England & the Chicopee Chamber of Commerce.
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.
