Research and Markets has announced the addition of Decision Resources, Inc.’s new report "U.S. Healthcare Reform: Impact on the Pharmaceutical Industry" to their offering (see also Biologics).Healthcare reform is coming to the United States and everyone is asking, Whats in it for me? The debate to pass healthcare reform into law was long and contentious, [...]
July 29ST. THOMAS Schneider Regional Medical Center CEO Alice Taylor outlined plans to ensure that St. Thomas’ only hemodialysis provider will be able to continue accepting Medicare payments.Last month, a review by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services found serious deficiencies in the unit. Taylor said that she asked the reviewer how long [...]
July 29BHOPAL The Centre and the Madhya Pradesh government have ordered separate probes into alleged illegal drug trials by doctors of Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital, Indore, on hundreds of patients.The probes followed a report in HT in its July 25 edition.Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has asked Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) director-general Dr [...]
July 29HARTFORD St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center will lay off about 200 employees in late August, as a shortfall in reimbursements for Medicare and Medicaid and a "modest decline" in patients exacerbates an already tight financial picture, the hospital’s chief executive said."In combination, these developments have challenged us to take these painful steps," [...]
July 29In the wake of health reform’s passage into law, Hospira Inc. will begin testing a cheaper version of a popular anemia biotech treatment in the first phase of a U.S. clinical trial.Lake Forest-based Hospira said it will begin the first phase of trials for a "biosimilar," or a biogeneric, version of brand-name Epogen in [...]
July 29WILMINGTON PPD Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to jointly develop technology to improve efficiency in managing risk evaluation and mitigation strategy programs mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.The technology will be based on the Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System, a data aggregation platform that gives health care professionals access to [...]
CellSafe Hospital Solution Reduces Risk to Electronic Equipment While Improving Signal Quality CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.(BUSINESS WIRE) CA Wireless, experts in custom in-building wireless solutions, today introduced the new CellSafe [...]
July 29The federal government is accusing Satilla Regional Medical Center and a Waycross physician of defrauding government health care programs by submitting claims for "worthless services" that also endangered patients’ lives.The government asserts the hospital allowed the physician, Najam Azmat, to perform highly specialized surgical procedures on patients at its Heart Center Cath Lab [...]
July 29LEESBURG Tampa-based Moffitt Cancer Center plans to build two new cancer-care facilities at Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Health System, Central Florida Health Alliance officials announced this morning.The partnership will bring state-of-the-art cancer care, in which Moffitt will operate in both hospitals to provide improved cancer prevention methods, improve cancer treatment [...]
July 29Passavant Area Hospital’s new emergency department has officially opened.The expanded facility features 22 treatment rooms and two trauma rooms.Planning for the expansion began in 2003. Construction started in July 2008.The $16.7-million expansion has doubled the emergency department’s size to more than 25,000 square feet. It also created a lower level that is being used [...]
