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Health Tech Today is a monthly, online video series providing cutting-edge stories at the intersection of health and information technology.  The show features informative interviews with some of the world's ...

Health Tech Today —a new monthly, on-line video series at the intersection of health and information technology.  The show premiers November 10th, but you can see a video trailer of ...

Have you ever wondered why so many physicians resist going “electronic”?  Trust me, it is not because they fear technology.  It is not because doctors  and nurses are Luddites when ...

This morning I had the pleasure of meeting with US state and local government officials at our executive briefing center in Redmond.  Although the briefing wasn’t confined to discussing information ...

With the launch of Windows 7 coming next week, I thought I would share an article that explores how Windows 7’s support for ‘touch’ will allow healthcare professionals to communicate ...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse launched a new program to bolster medical students' training about drug abuse.

The company's Guidant unit will plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges related to improper reporting to the FDA

Amidst growing unemployment, the healthcare services sector once again added jobs in October.

The Swiss drug maker is under investigation in South Korea for possibly helping companies stockpile Tamiflu.

Intermountain Healthcare has been pushing for more evidence-based care at its facilities for a while now, with some pretty interesting results.

A new law requires that next year big group plans provide the same level of care for mental health as for medical ones.

There has been some confusion among doctors about whether to prescribe the antiviral drug Tamiflu for less severe cases.

The official said swine flu vaccine should be distributed through many outlets, to get it to high-risk people quickly.

The San Francisco heath department is mapping the city to show where the sickest AIDS patients live, part of an effort to identify where care should be focused.

This delicate, velvety soup is a surprising departure from the hearty stews in which chickpeas often appear.

When Asked "What Is Your 5 Year Goal" Five years is a long time. Best to break it down in two types of goals: short and long term.Short examples:1. apply ...

THIS POSITION MUST BE FILLED!Work as a medical assistant!CLICK HERE: Back Office Medical AssistantCarillon Sports and Family MedicineSt. Petersburg, FL 33716BACK OFFICE medical assistant or licensed practical nurse (LPN) needed ...

Medical care, therapeutic, and pharmaceutical services play an important role in our economy and welfare. Major cities to rural areas, recruiters and employers are in constant need for qualified front ...

Are doctors allowing medical assistants to illegally administer certain drugs including Botox ...[Sep 9, 2009 09:17 PM, abc 13 Action News]Nevada Board of Medical Examiners finds underqualified medical staff administering ...

How About Temp Work While in School? Medical assistant students often seek temporary, or part-time work to gain hands-on experience while in school, and earn the money they need for ...

As they listen to tales of life's worst moments, they may absorb some of their patients' suffering. Who protects the mental health of our mental health professionals?

Many Jews lived through extreme hunger, mental duress and near-death experiences during the Holocaust. Now -- decades after the war -- they face another peril: a higher risk of developing ...

These days it can feel like the age of anxiety is winning over the pursuit of happiness. But you don't have to live on the dark side. Here's your recipe ...

Anti-abortion Democrats will be allowed to offer an amendment during the House health-care debate Saturday that would ban most abortion coverage from the public option and other insurance providers in ...

A preliminary report suggesting that N95 respirators -- filtering devices worn over the mouth and nose -- protect against swine flu better than surgical face masks seems to be incorrect, ...

The following is a letter that I sent to the St. Albans Messenger, our local daily newspaper in regard to an article they published on Aug. 5th. No further introduction ...

Our job is all about helping others, especially those who need someone with the skills to manage an emergency. Recently I had the opportunity to discover again that helping others ...

If you've been on duty for much time at all, you know that stress, sometimes a lot of it, goes with the job. Sure, we can spend hours lounging around ...

Ya gotta love EMS. In the midst of the misery and suffering we see on a regular basis, you can usually count on one thing: Your partner is as twisted ...

Called out this AM to a possible untimely. These calls can be depressing, and sometimes I wonder why EMS should be called. I guess our medical training lets us tell ...

by Wendy Johnson The CEO of a Cambridge, Mass.-based hospital recently wrote a great blog post about how his own health issues have impacted his views of healthcare reform. "The ...

by Nancy Cawley Jean If you work at a hospital, you know these institutions are pretty traditional when it comes to modes of communications. And now there's the brave new ...

by Joe Ingemi In my last post for Hospital Impact, I spoke of the possibility of standards-based meaningful use criteria, and performance-based meaningful use, such as recording the number of ...

Florida hospitals had a front-row seat to the genesis of the Recovery Audit Contractor program due to the Sunshine State's participation in the three-year RAC demonstration project. FierceHealthFinance recently spoke ...

In Part II of our Q&A interview with the CEO of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Paul Levy shares how Massachusetts' mandatory insurance coverage law has impacted his institution, ...

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz have a nice list of the Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper.  However, these tips can be used for almost any ...

Most economists begin to learn about health insurance market with the classic models developed by Rothschild and Stiglitz. In these models, individual risk and characteristics are measured along a single ...

The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk is up at Wise Bread.

Today we will discuss how the tax code affects health care. Tax exemption of employer-provided health insurance. “In 1943, the Internal Revenue Service (ruled) that employees could exclude the value ...

Cost of Health Reform: $894 billion or 1.3 trillion? Why is health care so expensive? Prices. Should urban or rural hospitals get Medicare funds? The efficiency of replacing earnings-related contributions ...

Some children with autism tend to perform compulsive rituals, and these can distract kids from the rest of the world. Jesse Resnick, a recent graduate of the product design program ...

When it comes to broken bones and torn cartilages, today's orthopedic splints and casts are full of disadvantages that Exos Corporation is trying to overcome with its product line. Waterproof, ...

Via the Engineer Online we discovered that EADS North America, out of Russellville, Arkansas, makes innovative mobile hospitals, one of which was recently sold to the Royal Thai Air Force. ...

Wellcome Images, an open source of high quality medically relevant photos and illustrations, has announced the winners of its tenth annual Wellcome Image Awards. The contest aims to profile the ...

The Mammomat Inspiration mammography system from Siemens now features the company's 3D tomosynthesis imaging that delivers high quality volumetric views of the breast. With the help of this digital reconstruction ...