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FDA Rule Addresses Drug Shortages

The Food and Drug Administration has issued an interim final rule, with a comment period, that makes changes to how pharmaceutical firms report drug shortages.
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NPRM for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use Available on Feb. 23

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CDC to Track Hospital Antibiotic Use

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched an antibiotic tracking system to enable hospitals to monitor antibiotic use.
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Site Helps Patients Select a Kidney Center

A new Web site, konnectology.com, is designed to help patients evaluate kidney transplant centers. The site is the first patient-centered service of Culmini Inc., a Burlingame, Calif.-based start-up funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Chronic Care. Chronic I.T. Challenges

Let's get the cards on the table: Nearly half of the population in the United States has at least one chronic condition, while approximately one-third of the population suffers from obesity. Chronic diseases have been called a health epidemic, and few would argue the country faces anything short of that.
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Hospital Testing Home Monitoring Via Smartphones

Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona is launching a program to use smartphones to monitor the health status of home-based cardiac patients.
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New FDA Site Covers Disposal of Medical 'Sharps'

A new public Web site from the Food and Drug Administration explains proper consumer disposal of used needles and other medical "sharps" products such as lancets, finger sticks, tubing systems and home hemodialysis connection needles. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates more than 3 billion needles and other sharps are used in U.S. homes each year. …
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Home Health Firm: AMA Has Misplaced Priorities

Daymarck, an outsourced home health medical coding firm, is calling out the American Medical Association for misplaced priorities following AMA members' adoption of a resolution to fight implementation of the ICD-10 code sets.
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Health Insurance Sector Fails Web Site Evaluation

According to ForeSee's fourth annual health care benchmark study, health insurance companies, as a whole, provide the least satisfactory web sites in the health industry.
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Stock Drops as WebMD Disappoints

The stock price of WebMD Health Corp. fell 7.7 percent in heavy trading on Nov. 3 after the company reported poorer than expected third quarter financial results and reduced financial expectations for the fourth quarter and all of 2011.
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New EHR for HIV/AIDS Treatment

Virco Lab Inc. has launched AVIGA, an electronic health records system specifically for the HIV/AIDS treatment community.
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