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Larkin Community Hospital achieves 'A' for patient safety

Larkin Community Hospital, one of Florida's twelve statutory teaching hospitals and the largest osteopathic teaching hospital in the nation, was named one of the safest hospitals for patients by The Leapfrog Group.

AACN to host world's largest conference for nurses who care for high acuity, critically ill patients

Emerging trends in patient care combine with advances in healthcare technology as thousands of nurses who care for high acuity and critically ill patients gather in Boston.

Download Press Release: Shire Supports Rare Disease Day 2013

On February 28 2013, at Lexington, Massachusetts, US, Shire announced its support of Rare Disease Day, joining patients, healthcare providers, and patient organisations around the [...]

Clinical support for patient self-management is rhetoric rather than reality, experts say

The processes to allow people to self-manage their own illness are not being used appropriately by health professionals to the benefit of their patients, new research suggests. Self-management support aims to increase the patient's ability to take ow...

Licensed Physical Therapist Shares the Easiest Way to Deal with Medical Billing

Selecting a medical billing company remains a major headache for physical therapy practices that therapists prefer to hire a medical billing company in order to handle their billing and coding process. Nitin Chhoda, a licensed physical therapist, shares the latest and easiest way to deal with medical billing company using highly functional electronic medical records or EMR. Denville, NJ (PRWEB) Ma...

World Hypertension Day 2013: New Sevikar® data and the Daiichi Sankyo patient support programme highlight importance of effective blood pressure management

Munich, Germany (ots) - * Lack of patient adherence to hypertension treatment is one of the root causes of failure to reach blood pressure goals, contributing to increased risk of serious cardiovas...

World Hypertension Day 2013: New Sevikar Data and the Daiichi Sankyo Patient Support Programme Highlight Importance of Effective Blood Pressure Management

MUNICH, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lack of patient adherencetohypertension treatment is one of the root causes of failuretoreach blood pressure goals, contributingtoincreased risk of serious car...

Compounded Prescription Therapies By Pentec Health Inc.: Recall - Lack Of Sterility Assurance

Audience: Pharmacy, Patient, Health Professional   [Posted 05/17/2013] ISSUE: Pentec Health, Inc. initiated a limited, voluntary recall of in-date nutritional prescriptions for renal patients due to lack of sterility assurance associated with.....

ACT Collaborates with Southeastern Medical Center on Telestroke Network

Atlanta, GA, May 17, 2013 --(PR.com)-- AcuteCare Telemedicine (ACT), the Southeast region’s largest practice based telemedicine provider, participated at Southeastern Alabama Medical Center’s (SAMC) press conference, announcing SAMC’s new stroke care network. SAMC’s service area covers over 60 miles in each direction. With technology in place, SAMC looked at possible reso...

Velocity Medical Releases New VelocityGRID Oncology Imaging Platform Version 3.0

Atlanta, GA, May 17, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Velocity Medical Solutions, innovators in multi-modality imaging and therapy tools for radiation oncology centers, has released v3.0 of the VelocityGRID software platform for oncology including the much anticipated VelocityConnect – a cloud-based, HIPAA compliant image collaboration and exchange tool. Prior to the 3.0 release, more than 300 cancer cen...

Get With The Guidelines--Stroke program improves patient recovery

People with strokes caused by blood clots fared better in hospitals participating in the Get With The Guidelines--Stroke program according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessi...

e-MDs Partners with dashboardMD to Provide Enhanced Business Intelligence Reporting Capabilities and Turnkey Healthcare Analytics

dashboardMD, a leading provider of business intelligence reporting solutions for healthcare, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with e-MDs, a leading provider of electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management (PM) solutions. Miami, FL (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 dashboardMD, a leading provider of business intelligence reporting solutions for healthcare, announced today...

Data Addressing Patient And Physician Barriers To Clinical Trials To Be Presented By Experts

Researchers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center's (UHCMC) Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, OH, will present findings from two studies evaluating new technologies designed to address common barriers to patient enrollment in clinical trial...

AACN Brings NTI & Critical Care Expo to Boston

Emerging trends in patient care combine with advances in healthcare technology as thousands of nurses who care for high acuity and critically ill patients gather in Boston May 18-23 for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' (AACN) annual National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition (NTI). AACN expects attendance to top 7,000 nurses and include many at the forefront o

Rehab for the Patient with PTSD

An ADVANCE panel of experts takes you inside this mysterious condition and details how it can impact the rehabilitation experience.

TeethWhiteningforFree.com, the Newest Way to Get Complementary Teeth Whitening

The newest company in teeth whitening is TeethWhiteningforFree.com. This company looks to provide potential teeth whitening customers with a professional dentist in their area. Auburn, AL (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 The newest way to get complementary teeth whitening is here. Simply go to TeethWhiteningforFree.com or TW4F.com to get started. These web sites aim to put potential teeth whitening customers...

New Ways Of Generating Stem Cells For Patients With Dysfunctional Or Damaged Tissues And Organs

Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a technique in which the nucleus of a donor cell is transferred to an egg cell whose nucleus has been removed, generating embryos that are almost an identical genetic match to the donor individual. For the firs...

Hospital Stays, Costs, Reduced By Antibiotic Stewardship Program Using Mass Spec System

A co-author of a groundbreaking study documenting reductions in patient length of stay and overall costs from implementation of an antibiotic stewardship program using Bruker's MALDI Biotyper will share her observations at a Bruker symposium to be he...

Comorbidities Taken Into Account Before Prostate Biopsy

UC Irvine Health urologists and health policy experts report in a new study that two written assessments that identify existing comorbidities - the patient-reported Total Illness Burden Index for Prostate Cancer (TIBI-Cap) and the physician-reported...

Clinical support for patient self-management is rhetoric rather than reality

(University of Southampton) The processes to allow people to self-manage their own illness are not being used appropriately by health professionals to the benefit of their patients, new research suggests.

Study: Patient openness to research can depend on race and sex of study personnel

(University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center) Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found that the race and sex of study personnel can influence a patient's decision on whether or not to participate in clinical research. The study, pre...

Pharmacy Advantage: Going Above and Beyond for Patient Assistance

Locally based Pharmacy Advantage Specialty Pharmacy takes action to innovatively bring about solutions for patients navigating prescription access. As a result of partnerships with national non-profit patient assistance foundations and drug manufacturers, the company's funding department has successfully acquired significantly over one million dollars in copayment support in 2012. Troy, MI (P...

DaVita’s Patient Pathways Wins Award for Discharge Planning

DENVER—DaVita, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (DVA) and a leading provider of kidney care services, today announced that the company’s subsidiary, Patient PathwaysSM, received the Dorland Health “Case In Point" Platinum Award for best Discharge Planning program in the United States.

BMJ safety award for pharmacy-led project

A medicines reconciliation project run by a multidisciplinary team at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was the winner in the "Improvement in patient safety" category at the BMJ awards held in London earlier this month (May 2013). T...

Direct Flow Medical® Receives IDE Approval for U.S. SALUS Trial of Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve System

Direct Flow Medical®, Inc., a transcatheter heart valve company focused on improving patient outcomes, today announced that it has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) to begin the SALUS feasibility trial of the Direct Flow Medical Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve...