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Personal Genotyping Course Progress Report Thursday, September 9, 2010 @ 10:09AMAt the Stanford School of Medicine's Scope blog, Lia Steakley recounts student participation in the school's summer elective course that offered the physicians-in-training the option to study their own genotype data.
Benefis outsources health-info functions Thursday, September 9, 2010 @ 6:56AMBenefis Health System announced Wednesday that it plans to partner with a Pennsylvania-based company that will run its health information management.
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Welch Allyn Unveils Cure for Vital Sign Documentation Errors at the Point of Care Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 11:07AMSKANEATELES FALLS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Welch Allyn today announced it has found a way to significantly reduce vital signs documentation errors from acute care settings.
Welch Allyn Unveils Cure for Vital Sign Documentation Errors at the Point of Care Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 11:00AMSKANEATELES FALLS, N.Y.----Welch Allyn, a leading global manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions, today announced it has found a way to significantly reduce vital signs documentation errors from acute care settings.
NIGHTINGALE REPORTS FISCAL 2011 FIRST QUARTER RESULTS Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:00AMNightingale Informatix Corporation , an application service provider of electronic medical record software and related services announces its financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2010.
AHDI Honors M-TEC's Kim Buchanan, the Company's Director of Education, as Educator of the Year Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 3:15PMFAIRLAWN, Ohio, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Medical Transcription Education Center (M-TEC), a highly-respected and ACCP-approved Medical Transcription (MT) training program, announced that Kim Buchanan, CMT, AHDI-F, was recognized by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) for excellence in medical transcription education. As an industry veteran, Buchanan is the spearhead ...
AHDI Honors M-TEC's Kim Buchanan, the Company's Director of Education, as Educator of the Year Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 11:37AMThe Medical Transcription Education Center , a highly-respected and ACCP-approved Medical Transcription training program, announced that Kim Buchanan, CMT, AHDI-F, was recognized by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity for excellence in medical transcription education.
Medical Arc™ Helps Doctors Go Paperless With Practice Fusion Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 7:00AMMichael A. Marks, President of Southampton-based health IT consulting firm, assists medical practices in their switch to Practice Fusion’s free, web-based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system
Transcend Awarded Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) Contract Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 9:40AMATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TRANSCEND SERVICES, INC. (NASDAQ: TRCR) announced today that it has entered into a three-year preferred provider agreement with Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA). Transcend will offer its leading transcription and clinical documentation solutions to CHCA’s Owner Hospitals, helping them to achieve cost savings and access to new technologies that improve ...
Transcend Awarded Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) Contract Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 9:33AMATLANTA----TRANSCEND SERVICES, INC. announced today that it has entered into a three-year preferred provider agreement with Child Health Corporation of America . Transcend will offer its leading transcription and clinical documentation solutions to CHCA’s Owner Hospitals, helping them to achieve cost savings and access to new technologies that improve efficiency, quality and patient safety.
TRS Institute Announces Externship Program for its Medical Transcription Students Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 6:54AMSHREWSBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TRS Institute announces an innovative externship program available to graduates of its online medical transcription training school to bridge the gap between education and employment.
TRS Institute Announces Externship Program for its Medical Transcription Students Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 6:48AMSHREWSBURY, Mass.----TRS Institute , the nation's leading provider of AHDI-approved online medical transcription and speech recognition training programs, announces an innovative externship which will be available to graduates of its online medical transcription training program.
VoiceViewer and Vianix® to Nurses Aid Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 2:00AMVoiceViewer needed to addresses feedback from the Nursing community it serves with a rapid product update that would require key changes in the voice processing architecture. Relying on their close working relationship, VoiceViewer CEO Michael G. Petera and Vianix CTO Dr. Veeru Ramaswamy quickly satisfy the evolving, customer driven requirements.
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology honors 11 outstanding scientists Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 1:55PM( American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ) The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology last week named 10 scientists the winners of the nonprofit's annual awards. Another winner was announced earlier this year.
Fire damages vacant Marysville mill Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 2:07PMMARYSVILLE (AP) — Firefighters in Marysville quickly put out a two-alarm fire at a vacant sawmill. Marysville Assistant Fire Chief Martin McFalls tells The Daily Herald of Everett that…
Burlington’s flood plan includes more robust levees Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:07AMBURLINGTON — A city report two years in the making calls for stronger levees to protect the city from a once-in-a-lifetime flood event. The ultimate goal of the report is to certify the…
Shalev named director of the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 2:17PMAnath Shalev, M.D., director of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism research in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Diabetes Center.
Mechanism for link between high fat diet and risk of prostate cancer and disorders unveiled Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 3:45PMProstate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men with an estimated 192,280 new cases diagnosed in the US in 2009 (Jemal 2009). Diet is considered one of the most important controllable risk factors for inflammation and prostate diseases including benign prostatic hyperplsia (BPH), prostatitis, and prostate cancer.
TRS Institute Acquires A Line Above, LLC Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 6:51AMMedical Transcription Training Leader Continues GrowthSHREWSBURY, Mass. -- TRS Institute (TRSi), the...
TRS Institute Announces Key Management Appointment of Kristin Hagen and Acquisition of A Line Above, LLC Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 6:30AMSHREWSBURY, Mass.----TRS Institute , the nation's leading provider of AHDI-approved online medical transcription and speech recognition training programs, announces the appointment of Kristin Hagen to the position of Director of Curriculum Development.
Radiologist discovers his female side as multitasking demands escalate Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 7:13PMI didn’t know it until now but if my wife is right, I am, in fact, a woman. She and other women in my life—family, coworkers, friends—all maintain that it is only women who can multitask. Yet there is published evidence that I and all of my male colleagues work in an environment that is interrupt-driven with high multitasking loads. Superwoman, eat your heart out.
NewLife Institute lands grant to aid poorer students Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 11:20PMLISBON - The NewLife Technical Institute has been awarded $190,000 in federal funding to hire more staff, including someone to help poorer students facing temporary obstacles that can prevent them from completing their coursework.
InnerPass Enables Superior Online Educational Experience at Leading Medical Transcription and Coding Program Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 7:30AMFRAMINGHAM, Mass.----InnerPass, a well-known, premium Skype application used by businesses for collaboration, has recently focused on higher education; enabling education organizations to deliver Distance Learning with greater efficacy.
Greenway Medical Technologies Signs 55-Provider St. Cloud Medical Group Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 9:14AMCARROLLTON, Ga., June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. is partnering with St.
Greenway Medical Technologies Signs 55-Provider St. Cloud Medical Group Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 7:15AMGreenway Medical Technologies, Inc. is partnering with St. Cloud Medical Group to provide its single-database electronic health record , practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuiteÂ®, online portal PrimePatientÂ® and remote clinic PrimeMobileâ¢ to St.
EHR, PACS And Related Standards Seminar In Middle East Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 6:58AM28 June 2010 After four successful PACS Admin seminars in Dubai, Egypt & Kuwait, ICT for Health (www.ictforhealth.com) along with its US partners OTech Imaging is organizing its 5th PACS seminar in the Middle East with a special emphasis on PACS, EHR implementation & strategies, particularly the open source WorldVista in Dubai, UAE from Oct 24-27, 2010. The course is ...
Bizmatics Inc. Announces CCHIT Certified® 2011 Ambulatory EHR Conditional Pre-market Certification for PrognoCIS EMR Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 8:00AMSAN JOSE, Calif.----Bizmatics is pleased to announce that on 15th June, our flagship EMR product PrognoCIS V 2.0 is a pre-market, conditionally CCHIT Certified® 2011 Ambulatory EHR.
3M ICD-10 Consulting Services and Software Prepare Hospitals for ICD-10 Transition Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 9:21AMSALT LAKE CITY----3M Health Information Systems, the worldwide leader in ICD-10 classification, has introduced ICD-10 consulting services, combined with advanced ICD-10 software and analytic tools, to help hospitals take immediate steps to prepare for a successful transition to the new ICD-10 coding standard, scheduled to be implemented nationwide in 2013.
New and Exciting in PLoS this week [A Blog Around The Clock] Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 10:37PMFirst piece of news, there is a new PLoS app for iPad. Even if you don't have this new gadget, you can download it and test-run it and post a review here - we appreciate all the feedback. Second piece of news is that the PLoS physical office in San Francisco is moving to a new location - it was busting at its seams even back in 2007 when I went there, it is just too small to contain all the new ...
Today in local history Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 12:29AMFriday June 11, 2010 June 11 50 years ago today NORTH ADAMS -- Richard Rhodes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rhodes of 44 Bradford St., has been named an alternate participant in the summer mathematics program at Assumption College, Worcester. Young Rhodes, an eighth grader at Mark Hopkins School, was named an alternate on the basis of a mathematics examination he took in Worcester May
TTE Transcripts Worldwide, Ltd. Announces Specialty Services Wednesday, June 2, 2010 @ 2:00AMU.S.-based company TTE Transcripts Worldwide, Ltd. unveils its newest specialty – medical and case management transcription services.
Canadian Patient Access to Offer Canada's First Interactive Personal Health Record Tuesday, June 1, 2010 @ 2:09PMCanadian Patient Access Inc. today announces the introduction of a secure, web-based patient portal, myPatientAccess.ca. The first of its kind in Canada, myPatientAccess will be fully integrated with an electronic medical record system and will be available to Canadian patients whose doctors use Canada's leading EMR, Nightingale On Demand.
OpenHelix Debuts Tutorial Aimed at Hipping MDs to Genetic Testing Advances Tuesday, May 25, 2010 @ 8:54AMOpenHelix, based in Bellevue, Wash., says the tutorial, called GeneTests , "will give medical researcher or clinicians a set of training resources to help [them] be efficient and effective at accessing and analyzing genomic variation and biomedical data."
FDA issues 510(k) clearance to Simplexa Influenza A H1N1 (2009) test on 3M Integrated Cycler Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 11:24PMQuest Diagnostics Incorporated, the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued 510(k) clearance to the Simplexa Influenza A H1N1 (2009) test on the 3M Integrated Cycler. The Simplexa test, developed and manufactured by Quest Diagnostics' Focus Diagnostics business, is the first to be cleared by ...
M-TEC Discounts HIPAA Compliance Webinar Series in Celebration of Medical Transcriptionist Week Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 8:35AMThe Medical Transcription Education Center , a highly-respected and ACCP-approved medical transcription training program, today announced a discounted registration for their nationally-recognized webinar series on HIPAA Compliance as part of the school's National Medical Transcriptionist Week celebration.
Androgen Receptors Found to Affect Growth of Liver Cancer Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 4:17AMTAINAN, Taiwan----Dr. Ming-Heng Wu of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at National Cheng Kung University , Taiwan, in collaboration with Prof. Chawnshang Chang’s laboratory of University of Rochester , United States, have discovered that androgen receptors can promote hepatitis B virus–induced hepatocarcinogenesis through modulation of hepatitis B virus RNA transcription.
Meetings and Deadlines Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 2:10AMMay 13 Application deadline for the -National Human Genome Research Institute and National Institute of General Medical Sciences' Centralized Protein Sequence and Function Resource grant to support a facility that will serve as a repository of curated protein sequences and annotated functional information.
New Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Software, MxChart™, Launched by Medical Transcription Service Provider, MxSecure Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 10:15AMNew Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Software, MxChart™, Launched by Medical Transcription Service Provider, MxSecure - Physician-friendly EMR, MxChart, boasts improved productivity with easy 3-Step Adoption Process.
Without This Protein, Embyros Stop Developing Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 6:19AMResearchers studying the common genetic disorder chromosome 22q.11 deletion syndrome have identified key proteins that act together to regulate early embryonic development. One protein is essential to life; in animal studies, embryos without the protein do not survive past the first few days of gestation. Although the findings do not currently affect treatments for chromosome 22q.11 deletion ...
Kaplan University's Omaha Campus Launches Medical Transcription Associate Degree Program Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 6:00AMOMAHA, Neb.----The Kaplan University Omaha campus is now enrolling for its new medical transcription associate degree program.
Kaplan University's Lincoln Campus Launches Medical Transcription Associate Degree Program Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 6:00AMLINCOLN, Neb.----The Kaplan University Lincoln campus is now enrolling for its new medical transcription associate degree program.
Imaging On Call Achieves Full Speech Recognition in RIS-less Environment with Integrated Document Solutions Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @ 8:00AMFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.----Integrated Document Solutions, Inc. , a provider of web-based, modular health documentation solutions and Imaging On Call , an industry leading teleradiology provider, today announced the successful implementation of a groundbreaking RIS-less teleradiology solution using 100 percent speech recognition and template-based reporting.
EMBO Gold Medal 2010 recognizes Jason W. Chin Monday, May 10, 2010 @ 8:57AM( European Molecular Biology Organization ) The European Molecular Biology Organization today announced the award of the EMBO Gold Medal 2010 to Jason W. Chin from the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Chin receives the award for his pioneering work on reprogramming the genetic code. Chin's work allows designer amino acids to be encoded at specific, predetermined ...
ClearPractice Launches the Only Pure Web-Based (SaaS) Comprehensive Suite of Physician Practice-Automation Solutions Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 8:00AMST. LOUIS----ClearPractice LLC, a leading provider of SaaS-based solutions for practices of 10 physicians or less, today unveiled the new ClearPractice suite of practice-automation solutions, including an Electronic Medical Record, Patient Health Record, Practice Management, Electronic Prescribing, Revenue Cycle Management and advanced Mobile Applications.
Findings Representing Multiple Approaches For Treating Resistant Breast Cancers Presented By Lombardi Scientists Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 9:43AMFor women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancers, treatment after initial surgery is straightforward: a daily dose of an anti-hormone drug will block the tumor from fuel needed for growth, and keep the breast cancer at bay. The treatments work like gangbusters at first, but after time, many tumors become resistant to therapy. With no other treatment options, the cancer grows again and ...
CCMENA helps Al Ain Hospital to Improve Their Dictation and Transcription Workflow Process with WinScribe Digital ... Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 2:06AM15 April 2010 Al Ain Hospital is a highly specialised acute care and emergency hospital with 412 beds, over 200 doctors and 30 medical departments and divisions had no dictation system in place and was looking for a system to improve the delivery and transcription of medical notes and reports for the Health Information Management Department.
M*Modal Provides Industry-Leading Technology Included in New Career Step Medical Transcription Editor (MTE) Training ... Wednesday, April 14, 2010 @ 2:10AMStudents provided with specialized tools to thrive in medical transcription editing careers (PRWeb Apr 14, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/04/prweb3868664.htm
M*Modal Provides Industry-Leading Technology Included in New Career Step Medical Transcription Editor (MTE) Training ... Wednesday, April 14, 2010 @ 2:00AMStudents provided with specialized tools to thrive in medical transcription editing careers
AACR Honors Eminent Researchers Tuesday, April 13, 2010 @ 12:40PMThe world's leading researchers whose efforts have significantly contributed to progress in the fight against cancer will be recognized by the American Association for Cancer Research at its 101st Annual Meeting 2010, held April 17-21, 2010, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.