A DOTmed Business News report on how advanced care for soldiers is translating to conventional practice.
Fire in a theater takes on new meaning in this DOTmed Business News report.
The Department of Health and Human Services said that health care spending shot up 9.3 percent in 2002, the largest increase in 11 years, to a total of $1.55 trillion. That represents an average of $5,440 for each person in the United States.
Japanese government sloth may provide commercial opportunities (from Kyodo News Svc.)
US researchers hope the advanced type of ultrasound may eventually help to prevent many miscarriages
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - On balance, healthy women older than 65 years of age benefit from having a mammogram every two years, and it makes sense from an economic viewpoint, too.
FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/31/2003 -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX) today launched two new needle insulin syringes...
CHICAGO (Reuters) October 29, 2003 Food and Drug Administration warns drug-coated device caused over 290 blood clots; shares tumble.
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2003--...The key findings of the GAO report corroborate what experts in healthcare have long understood - that smaller, patient-friendly and focused healthcare facilities provide a superb vehicle for quality care.
Can equipment that's used to make semiconductors help detect the early stages of cancer? ... The rising cost of health care, along with new legislative initiatives such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, are prompting hospitals and others to try to automate more of their systems
To prevent overtaxing health systems, they suggest different levels of alert, with China the focus of tough testing.
FTC, Justice Department Urged to Curb Continuing Marketplace Abuses
Canada continues its $30 million dollar program to install or replace diagnostic and imaging equipment in underserved areas like rural Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island.
More obese people lead to heavier-duty medical equipment
The MERCI Retriever is still in its experimental phase, but this tiny, intuitive hardware device may prove more effective than clot-busting drugs in providing emergency care to critical stroke victims...
Analytics insights can be as bold as the people asking the questions
Evidence of mammo benefits highlight opportunities to do better
If you've got 10 years of life expectancy, you may benefit from screening
What was once seen as a 'profit center' is now seen as a 'cost center'
By embracing these platforms, the benefits can be highlighted and refined
Top doctors, leading radiologists offer insights
Hospitals with complex patient populations may get short end of the stick
Understanding where human and technical factors combine for disaster
They are being heard and doing more — but it's still not enough
Emphasizes new accreditation matrix and hand hygiene
Shortcomings exist across the economic spectrum
Q&A with Dr. Joshua Bederson, Mount Sinai Health System
Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana deals deemed bad for competition
A columnist and colleague weighs in from DOTmed Business News.
The nation's capital provided ample inspiration for debate at the recent meeting of group purchasing organizations.
Toshiba's Vantage 1.5T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system ranked first in a multichannel MRI performance report by KLAS Enterprises LLC. Image quality and patient comfort cited as reasons for high ranking. (Editor's note: We invite all OEMs to 'Send us your Comments' and provide independent, competitive test results.)
Help change the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 passed by Congress by emailing your Congressional Representatives.
Baxter announced results from a preliminary evaluation of its Phase I/II clinical trial of whole-virus H5N1 influenza candidate vaccine. The results represent the first clinical evaluation of a vero cell-based candidate H5N1 pandemic vaccine.
Hospitals left increasingly overburdened in India after outbreaks of mosquito-borne bone crusher disease.
Newest version of complete business and clinical workflow solution includes new call center scheduler, enhanced print/fax capabilities, mammography updates and more.
The University of Queensland is gearing up to build a center that will significantly boost Australia's capacity to conduct world-class clinical research.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have painstakingly figured out how to safely perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans on men and women who have any one of 24 modern types of implanted defibrillators and pacemakers.
The American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) 2006 Imaging Administrators Conference, October 13-14, Arlington TX.
AMICAS introduces advanced image archiving and innovative workflow capabilities with customer focused Vision Series PACS 4.2 release.
