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The Medical Industry
Business Weekly
July 24, 2008

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Massachusetts is becoming a global center for healthcare businesses.
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Ever since Scott Minich, and CEO and President Dana Smith joined forces, the company has flourished.
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New FDA Fellowship Program Proposed to Attract Top Professionals The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of The FDA Commissioner's Fellowship Program, a two-year program planned to draw top scientists, engineers and health professionals. The new program will train participants in the factors involved in safety and regulatory decisions that drive the agency and encourage them to make their career at the FDA.

Students Afforded Opportunity to Attend ICALEO Conference NSF grant affords students opportunity to attend ICALEO Conference for free.

Kroll Fraud Solutions Launches eLearning Course for Safeguarding Patient Data Kroll Fraud Solutions, a leading risk consulting company, launched "Handling Sensitive Patient Information in the Healthcare Workplace," an online resource intended to teach healthcare professionals how to reduce risk with data security in their organizations.

NIH Initiative Boosts Women's Career Opportunities in Biomedical Research The National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a Request for Applications (RFA) to initiate research and interventions on behalf of advancing talented women in leadership positions and from underprivileged backgrounds in biomedical, behavioral science and engineering careers. Funding of approximately $3 million is expected to provide up to eight awards in 2009.

Topic of Nursing Shortage Absent at Recent AWHONN Convention Among 105 course offerings and panel discussions at the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Annual Convention, the subject of a nursing shortage was missing.

The OEM has a Learning Center
for continuing education

Philips Offers U.S. Customers On-site Customized Education Services

by Becky Jacoby, Reporter
Philips' U.S. customers can choose a two-year clinical performance agreement that offers flexible continuing education seminars. The program includes a plan for educating new and existing staff on understanding technological applications and decision support tools, designed to enhance patient care and facilitate workflow.

Courses are based on a credit system. Credits, chosen from a course catalog, can be spent at the customer's discretion for essential and personal development education.

To accommodate differences in learning styles, courses are presented by instructors, as self-directed study, webcasts and multimedia via the Philips Learning Center. Content focuses on clinical applications, management, disease-specific case studies, and principles of modalities.

The Philips Learning Center, launched in 1999, currently has over 150,000 allied health professional registrants. For more information, visit http://www.theonlinelearningcenter.com/overview_home.aspx

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