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First Reported 3 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 Documents

Christiana Care Health System seeks HIPAA compliance with email encryption

DALLAS Zix Corporation, a provider of , has signed a three-year contract with , a Delaware-based regional health system with two hospitals and numerous satellite facilities. ZixCorp's Email Encryption Service will help secure Christiana Care's confidential ... [HealthCareIT News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Health Insurance Portability & Accountabili..., Christiana Care Health System, Encryption

First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 Documents (in Politics)

Lawson Software Incorporated

Cook Children's Health Care System launches enterprise solutions

ST. PAUL, MN Lawson Software has signed a contract with Cook Childrens Health Care System. Under the contract, Lawson will provide multiple enterprise solutions including , , , Strategic Sourcing and Contract Management applications. Cook Childrens also ... [HealthCareIT News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Health Care, Lawson Software Incorporated, Fort Worth, Business Intelligence, Saint Paul (Minnesota, United States)

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 27 mins ago - 16 Documents (in Politics)

WellPoint Inc

Insurer's Rate Hike Becomes Administration Talking Point

As President Obama looks to get health overhaul legislation moving again, over the weekend he called out a California insurer's planned rate hike as an example of why change is still needed. On Monday, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary ... [NPR - 27 mins ago]

Entities: WellPoint Inc, Rate Hike, Kathleen Sebelius

First Reported 02/07/2010 - Updated 18 hours ago - 57 Documents (in Politics)

Barack Obama

Televised health care debate too little, too late?

It was a campaign promise of President Obama's - and he's taken a lot of heat for not following through. Well, Mr. Obama now says he plans to hold a televised, bipartisan health care meeting on February 25. This move toward transparency comes after the ... [CNN - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Health Care, Barack Obama, C-SPAN, Massachusetts Senate

First Reported 02/08/2010 - Updated 11 hours ago - 27 Documents (in Politics)

Republican Party (US)

GOP hints it might skip healthcare summit

U.S. House Republican leaders Monday indicated they might be 'reluctant to participate' in a healthcare summit proposed by President Barack Obama. The president said Sunday he has invited Republican and Democratic leaders to meet with him on healthcare ... [Poten & Partners - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Health Care, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 15 Documents

Eric Cantor

Top House Republicans throw cold water on healthcare summit

Leading House Republicans raised the prospect that they might refuse to participate in President Obama's proposed healthcare summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existing reform bills and start over. In a letter to White House Chief of Staff ... [Health Leaders - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Health Care, Eric Cantor, Rahm Emanuel

First Reported 02/08/2010 - Updated 20 hours ago - 8 Documents (in Politics)

Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown set to reform community healthcare

Gordon Brown will promise a “personalised” revolution in health and social care today, with one-to-one support at home for all cancer patients. In a major pre-general election speech, the Prime Minister will insist that “take it or leave it” public services ... [Belfast Telegraph - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Gordon Brown, Health Care, King's Fund, Palliative Care, Dialysis

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Health)

Faster Aging Triggered by Errant Gene: Study

A new study has found certain people carry a genetic variant that could shave three or four years off their life. It is the first time that a gene has been directly linked to the ageing process, scientists from Britain and The Netherlands reported in ... [MedIndia - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Telomere, Tim Spector, Chromosome, Toxin

First Reported 02/08/2010 - Updated 19 hours ago - 7 Documents (in Health)

Study: Medicare Bladder Cancer Treatment Policy Raises Health Costs

Topics: Medicare, Health Costs Reuters: "Medicare's move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday. ... [Kaiser Health News - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Bladder Cancer, Medicare, Medicaid

First Reported 02/08/2010 - Updated 02/08/2010 - 6 Documents (in Medicine)

Lancet: Fewer, higher rad doses improve quality of life in breast cancer

FURTHER READING Organization Hypofractionated radiotherapy regimens for the treatment of breast cancer patients does not result in increased physical side effects in the breast or detriment to body image and is equally as effective at reducing ... [HealthImaging - 02/08/2010]

Entities: Radiation Therapy, Breast Cancer, fractionation, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Breast

First Reported 02/08/2010 - Updated 14 hours ago - 4 Documents (in New Business)

Siemens wins €50m Iraq contract

Tags: imaging Siemens Siemens Healthcare has won a contract worth more than €50m to supply diagnostic imaging equipment to around 100 ministry of health hospitals across Iraq. The equipment, which includes magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography, ... [E-Health Europe - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Siemens AG, Iraq, Health Care, Ali Saleh, computed tomography

First Reported 3 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Orlando Health deploys partners with MedeAnalytics for clinical, financial risk compliance

EMERYVILLE, CA Orlando Health has added Quality and Compliance Analytics (QCA), developed by MedeAnalytics. By utilizing the QCA solution specifically for Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) audits, Orlando Health will proactively monitor financial and clinical ... [HealthCareIT News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: FINANCIAL RISK, Mike Gallagher, Analytics

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...can be left with unaffordable insurance each time the rates or rules change in the private market,' Sebelius writes in her letter, adding that "we need health insurance reform that will give American families the secure, affordable coverage they need."

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