'Health' Tag

• HHS awards University of Texas at Austin $2.7M for new Health Information Technology program

  August 27, 2010

  [Story ID: 3507] The University of Texas at Austin’s new Health Information Technology program has received $2.7 million as a part of the Professional University Resources and Education for Health Information Technology (PURE HIT) consortium project supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) [...]

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• NTIs RxNT eHr V 7.0 earns additional certification in CCHITs Preliminary ARRA IFR Stage 1 program

  August 25, 2010

  [Story ID: 3479] Networking Technology, Inc., the leader in electronic health solutions, today announced that their electronic health record modular technology, RxNT eHr V 7.0 earned additional certification in CCHIT’s Preliminary ARRA IFR Stage 1 program.

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• An overview of IntraHealth-UNC Summer Fellows Program

  August 2, 2010

  [Story ID: 3354] Four master’s students and one doctoral candidate from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health shared their global health research and insights at the culmination of a 10-week joint fellowship with IntraHealth International this Wednesday during a poster exhibition and discussion with faculty and staff.

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• Some small businesses expect continued increases in health costs

  July 27, 2010

  [Story ID: 3262] The (Florence, Ala.) Times Daily: Some small business owners are worried about the continuing rise of health care costs. “Business owners say they offer health care benefits to attract employees and retain workers. But providing health care to employees is the second highest cost for business owners behind payroll and many owners [...]

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• HHS Secretary announces 15 awards to support Preventive Medicine Residency Programs

  July 26, 2010

  [Story ID: 3216] HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced 15 awards totaling $9 million to support Preventive Medicine Residency Programs at accredited schools of public health, schools of medicine, and hospitals. Of these funds, nearly $6.7 million is part of the $200 million appropriated to HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration under the American Recovery [...]

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• Insurers, advocates fight over upcoming spending rules

  July 23, 2010

  [Story ID: 3192] Insurance companies are banding together to weaken a key health law rule that requires them to spend as much as 85 percent of their revenues on medical care, according to the advocacy group Health Care for America Now. At issue is the definition of ‘medical loss ratio,’ a figure used on Wall [...]

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• Michigan challenge to health law begins

  July 23, 2010

  [Story ID: 3166] The Detroit News: On Wednesday, “[a] federal judge heard arguments [in the] lawsuit that is being watched nationwide for its challenge of congressional authority to reform health care in a way that would penalize citizens who fail to obtain their own health insurance.” The attorney for one plaintiff, The Thomas More Law [...]

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• KHN column — Massachusetts shows federal reform headed for trouble

  July 23, 2010

  [Story ID: 3154] In this Kaiser Health News column, Grace-Marie Turner writes that Massachusetts’ health reform has increased demand without increasing the supply of health care providers, it continues to keep people in the dark about the true cost of health care and health insurance, and has not changed incentives for people to seek more [...]

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• AIDS 2010 interviews

  July 22, 2010

  [Story ID: 3113] Managing editor of the Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, Jill Braden Balderas, interviews global health leaders participating in AIDS 2010.

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• Mental exercises may help reverse age-related cognitive decline

  July 21, 2010

  [Story ID: 3084] Specialized brain training targeted at the regions of a rat’s brain that process sound reversed many aspects of normal, age-related cognitive decline and improved the health of the brain cells, according to a new study from researchers at University of California, San Francisco.

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