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Various types of cosmetic surgery
published 132 days, 1 hour, 43 minutes ago posted by aileenaileen 136 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
Friday, October 30, 2009 12:03:37 PM GMT Monday, October 26, 2009 7:59:09 AM GMT
Various types of cosmetic surgery
Cosmetic surgery in Liverpool has become extremely popular over recent years, and physical changes to our appearance produce emotional changes. Cosmetic surgeons offer the highest quality cosmetic surgery with surgical excellence in Liverpool. (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.feel-younger.co.uk
tags: Cosmetic surgeon, cosmetic surgery, health, technology
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H1N1: An ounce of prevention is ... priceless
published 153 days, 19 minutes ago posted by BillSheridanBillSheridan 159 days, 22 hours, 25 minutes ago
Friday, October 09, 2009 1:28:20 PM GMT Friday, October 02, 2009 3:22:18 PM GMT
H1N1: An ounce of prevention is ... priceless
It's no surprise that we're seeing a flood of flu-related advice and resources surface in the business community. Here are just a few. (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.cpasuccess.com
tags: CPA, CPAs, disaster, flu, H1N1, illness, influenza, MACPA, Planning, swine flu, vaccine
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The Aging Workforce: How to Fight the Risks - - CFO.com
published 181 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by DonDeaDonDea 186 days, 7 hours, 49 minutes ago
Friday, September 11, 2009 1:12:11 AM GMT Sunday, September 06, 2009 5:58:01 AM GMT
The Aging Workforce: How to Fight the Risks - - CFO.com
The workforce is aging fast, and stakeholders — companies, governments, and others — have a narrow window of time to adapt. So says the World Economic Forum, which Wednesday issued an 80-page report outlining strategic options to address how stakeholders can strengthen financial sustainability, quality of retirement, and health-care provisioning in a rapidly aging world. The report emphasizes that companies and governments must work cooperatively for meaningful action to occur — a dubious scenario in today... (more)
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In Strategy Shift, G.E. Plans Lower-Cost Health Products
published 306 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes ago posted by DonDeaDonDea 307 days, 8 hours, 15 minutes ago
Friday, May 08, 2009 2:37:59 PM GMT Friday, May 08, 2009 5:31:34 AM GMT
In Strategy Shift, G.E. Plans Lower-Cost Health Products
General Electric is shifting the strategy in its $17 billion-a-year health equipment and technology business, seeking to broaden its reach with more lower-cost products. The move is part of a wide-ranging marketing and business initiative announced on Thursday, called “healthymagination.” General Electric’s health business, known for its medical imaging and diagnostic machines, is struggling in a weak economy. The hospitals and clinics that buy such sophisticated and costly equipment are reducing capital s... (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.nytimes.com
tags: GE
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Bill Calls for Open-Source Electronic Health Records
published 308 days, 23 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by BradComerBradComer 315 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes ago
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 2:11:57 PM GMT Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:43:06 PM GMT
Bill Calls for Open-Source Electronic Health Records
The proposed Health Information Technology Public Utility Act of 2009 would create a federal agency and grant program to develop open-source electronic health records and an open-source exchange model. (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.eweek.com
tags: eHealth Records, HITPUA of 2009, open source
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Google Health Responds to Inaccuracy Claims
published 308 days, 23 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by BradComerBradComer 315 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes ago
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 2:11:57 PM GMT Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:39:59 PM GMT
Google Health Responds to Inaccuracy Claims
Google decided to respond to claims that Google Health, its health care IT service devoted to collecting users’ medical information, can import and display incorrect data. Health care IT has become an increasingly important segment of the IT industry, with major players ranging from Google to Microsoft rolling out continuously updated solutions for patients and caregivers. (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.eweek.com
tags: eHealth, eHealth Records, Google, health 2.0, healthcare IT, records management
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Microsoft's HealthVault a Challenge to Google Health?
published 310 days, 17 hours, 47 minutes ago posted by BradComerBradComer 315 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes ago
Monday, May 04, 2009 8:00:12 PM GMT Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:37:48 PM GMT
Microsoft's HealthVault a Challenge to Google Health?
Microsoft's HealthVault technology will be used as the foundation for Mayo Clinic Health Manager, a personal health record service that the Mayo Clinic will use to allow patients to monitor their conditions and share information with their caregivers. Google already has a number of agreements with organizations over the use of Google Health, its own personal medical-record service. (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.eweek.com
tags: health 2.0, health records, management
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Medicine's Next Big Battlefield: Your Home - BusinessWeek
published 314 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by DonDeaDonDea 317 days, 8 hours, 24 minutes ago
Friday, May 01, 2009 12:03:59 AM GMT Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:22:44 AM GMT
Medicine's Next Big Battlefield: Your Home - BusinessWeek
With the Merlin.net network, cardiac device maker St. Jude takes on market leader Medtronic in wireless patient-care networks. Cardiac medicine is moving to the home: An implanted electronic device constantly monitors a patient's well-being. Software makes a potentially life-saving prediction and, through a wireless network, alerts the doctor to the urgent problem. The device adjusts treatment as ordered by the physician on the other end. Such wireless networks, known as telehealth or remote patient monito... (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.businessweek.com
tags: health 2.0
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Swine Flu: Can Social Networking Fan a Pandemic?
published 314 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by BradComerBradComer 315 days, 22 hours, 5 minutes ago
Friday, May 01, 2009 12:03:59 AM GMT Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:41:37 PM GMT
Swine Flu: Can Social Networking Fan a Pandemic?
Some say the current swine flu outbreak is a prime example of where technology and the enhanced social interaction it enables can go awry. For instance, some say Twitter may do more harm than good in the case of spreading the word about the disease. Some say the current swine flu outbreak is a prime example of where technology and the enhanced social interaction it enables can go awry. The swine flu outbreak so far is responsible for at least 86 deaths in Mexico, and cases have been cited in the Unite... (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.eweek.com
tags: eHealth, Social Networking, twitter
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Participatory Democracy, Participatory Medicine
published 323 days, 20 hours, 12 minutes ago posted by DonDeaDonDea 324 days, 7 hours, 55 minutes ago
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:34:49 PM GMT Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:52:20 AM GMT
Participatory Democracy, Participatory Medicine
More than half of the entire adult population in the U.S. used the internet to get involved in the 2008 political process. Blogs, social networking sites, video clips, and plain old email were all used to gather and share political information by what Lee Rainie has dubbed a new “participatory class”: 18% of internet users posted comments about the campaign on a blog or social networking site. 45% of internet users went online to watch a video related to the campaign. Half of online political news consumer... (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.pewinternet.org
tags: healthcare
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Hand Transplant Surgery Gives Former Marine Hope
published 330 days, 22 hours ago posted by HughLeeHughLee 332 days, 13 hours, 10 minutes ago
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:46:56 PM GMT Monday, April 13, 2009 12:37:11 AM GMT
Hand Transplant Surgery Gives Former Marine Hope
Sign InHand Surgery in the NewsPress ReleasesTestimonialsContact UsHand Transplant Surgery Gives Former Marine HopeGetting Along Without a PinkiePotential Double Hand TransplantLittle Girl's Severed Hand Reattached by Hand Surgeons20092008200720062005Paul Hamm- Olympic Gold MedalistA Pianist RebornHand Surgery in the NewsHand Transplant Surgery Gives Former Marine HopeGetting Along Without a PinkiePotential Double Hand TransplantLittle Girl's Sever... (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.assh.org
tags: ASSH
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April is Counseling Awareness Month!
published 335 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by DonDeaDonDea 335 days, 18 hours, 39 minutes ago
Friday, April 10, 2009 12:28:35 AM GMT Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:07:51 PM GMT
April is Counseling Awareness Month!
ACA In The NewsApril is Counseling Awareness Month!(News) 04.01.09 The more than 40,000 members of the American Counseling Association (ACA) take considerable pride in both their work and their accomplishments and seek to make the importance of counseling and the role of counselors better known throughout the nation and the world. To this end, ACA designates April of each year as Counseling Aware... (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.counseling.org
tags: ACA
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Childhood hearing loss more prevalent among Hispanic-American, low-income households
published 335 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by DonDeaDonDea 335 days, 18 hours, 4 minutes ago
Friday, April 10, 2009 12:28:35 AM GMT Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:43:12 PM GMT
Childhood hearing loss more prevalent among Hispanic-American, low-income households
American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery Childhood hearing loss more prevalent among Hispanic-American, low-income householdsNew review indicates fractured medical records collection for childhood hearing loss Alexandria, VA � A new review of medical databases shows that neonatal hearing loss, already one of the most common birth disorders in the United States, is esp... (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.eurekalert.org
tags: AAO-HN
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GRRHIO – Home
published 362 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes ago posted by bgleberbgleber 365 days, 19 hours, 18 minutes ago
Friday, March 13, 2009 3:26:25 PM GMT Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:29:08 PM GMT
GRRHIO – Home
home | about | news | contact Rochester RHIO is a secure online resource developed by and for doctors, hospital systems, health insurers and privacy officers in the nine-county Greater Rochester area. Its purpose is to share essential patient information quickly and accurately with authorized health care providers. In a medical emergency, the Rochester RHIO can save lives by offering providers immediate access to crucial patient health data. It also improves routine medical care–doctors can spend less tim..... (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: www.grrhio.org
tags: heath record, rhio
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AHIP Launches Campaign for an American Solution - Home
published 372 days, 11 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by bgleberbgleber 381 days, 10 hours, 51 minutes ago
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:50:10 AM GMT Monday, February 23, 2009 2:56:14 AM GMT
AHIP Launches Campaign for an American Solution - Home
The Campaign for an American Solution is a grassroots effort whose mission is to build support for workable health care reform. The Campaign recently conducted a national listening tour in which health plans and Americans from all walks of life had candid, transparent discussions about how we can work together to improve health care. (more)
category: Healthcare | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.americanhealthsolution.org
tags: AHIP