Obsession With Meaningful Use Could Backfire
Don’t let your push to obtain the government’s EHR financial incentives blind you to the next big hurdle: accountable care.
Hospitals Show Solid Increase in EHR Meaningful-Use Readiness: HIMSS
Health care IT nonprofit HIMSS has shared new data on how a large number of hospitals are ready to satisfy the Obama administration’s meaningful-use guidelines on EHRs.
Will ACO Implementation Improve Patient Health, or Just Cut Costs?
Could technology motivate patients to make healthy choices in the ACO scenarios, knowing that health care practitioners would be keeping a closer eye on their habits? Some say yes.
Final Medicare Rule Cuts Doc Pay Drastically
CMS announced that the final physician payment rule for 2012 will cut Medicare payments to doctors by 27.4% starting Jan. 1. The agency acknowledged, however, that the cut likely won’t go into effect.
Controversial Cholesterol Pill Vytorin Shows Promise for Kidney Patients
A new FDA analysis shows the controversial drug Vytorin lowered the relative risk of heart attacks and strokes by 22 percent among CKD patients in the relatively early stages of disease. Merck is seeking FDA approval for use of Vytorin in CKD patients.
Cancer Risk Doubles After Organ Transplant, Study Finds
Organ transplant recipients in the United States double their risk of developing cancer compared to the general population, but experts say the benefits still far outweigh the risks.
Better Incentives for Organ Donors Can Thwart Black Market: View
Almost every country has a law prohibiting the sale of vital organs for transplant. In the place of legitimate trading of human parts, however, a global black market in kidneys, liver lobes and other organs has developed, and is steadily growing.
Vitamin B Derivative Helps Diabetics with Mild Kidney Disease
A vitamin B6 derivative may help slow or prevent the progression of mild kidney disease in patients with diabetes, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The drug may benefit increasing numbers of patients as the prevalence of diabetes rises.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, announce new method to build important Heparin drug.
Obama Acts to Ease U.S. Drug Shortages
An executive order signed by President Barack Obama Monday directs the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “take action” to prevent and reduce the worsening prescription drug shortages that have plagued the country for several years.
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