Blue Cross adds Lohnes to medical advisory committee
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- Blue Cross adds Lohnes to medical advisory committee
- New NBC show ‘Trauma’ shows networks still believe in medical drama
- FF net income drops at Medical Properties Trust
- Vital Signs Mildly High Cholesterol at Midlife Linked to Alzheimer’s
- Salesforce.com Dips Its Toe in Electronic Medical Records
- New state law eases medical coverage for 20-somethings
- IPC buys Synergy Medical Group expands in Tampa market
Blue Cross adds Lohnes to medical advisory committee
Bizjournals.com
John Lohnes has been named to the Medical Advisory Committee for. He will serve a two-year term.
New NBC show ‘Trauma’ shows networks still believe in medical drama
New York Daily News
28 the departure of “ER” may be sparking a whole new cycle. “TV tends to go in waves” Scardapane told TV writers here Wednesday. “The specter of ‘ER’ in television looms large so a lot of people now want to find the next generation of medical shows. “I know that’s what we’re shooting for. ” In an odd sense “.
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FF net income drops at Medical Properties Trust
Bizjournals.com
The Birmingham-based health care real estate investment trust (NYSE: MPW) reported adjusted funds from operations (FF) at $16. 3 million for the quarter compared to $24. 6 million in the second quarter of last year. For the year FF was $33.
Vital Signs Mildly High Cholesterol at Midlife Linked to Alzheimer’s
New York Times
Whitmer an epidemiologist with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and the paper’s senior author. The study followed 9844 members of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Medical Group who had blood work done between 1964 and 1973 when they were 40 to 45 years old. All had remained members of the plan until at least 1994 when computerized outpatient diagnoses of dementia were made available. Some 598 of the original participants were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia a less common form of dementia between 1994 and 2007 when they were between 61 and 88 years old. Those whose total blood cholesterol had been high — over 240 milligrams per deciliter — were 57 percent more likely to have developed Alzheimer’s disease than those with optimal levels. Those who had borderline cholesterol values — between 200 and 239 milligrams per deciliter — were at 50 percent greater risk of developing vascular dementia.
Salesforce.com Dips Its Toe in Electronic Medical Records
Wall Street Journal
com?s ?cloud-computing? model ? in which companies use Web-based software hosted by Salesforce. com rather than installing software on local computers ? makes sense for doctors? offices which are typically small businesses without much of an IT staff. Practice Fusion already uses that model and lots of the bigger better known electronic medical records companies are offering that sort of thing as well. Howard told us that under the deal Practice Fusion?s EMR will reside on Salesforce. Another reason this deal is worth a mention: The big federal stimulus bill passed earlier this year includes some.
New state law eases medical coverage for 20-somethings
Newsday
The governor also signed into law an extension of CBRA from 18 months to 36 months. CBRA gives employees who have lost their jobs the option to buy continued health coverage that had been provided by their group health plan. Medical groups and consumer advocates praised the two laws though one questioned whether their impact would be sweeping. “I think everything you do to extend insurance coverage is helpful” said Arthur Levin director of the nonprofit Center for Medical Consumers in Manhattan. But he called the laws “teeny tiny steps. ” “At the end of the day you’re not attacking the big problem” he said referring to the uninsured and the high cost of health care. More than 30 percent of 2.
IPC buys Synergy Medical Group expands in Tampa market
Bizjournals.com
The purchase price was not disclosed in a release announcing the deal. Synergy founded by Dr. Chris Nussbaum is a hospitalist group that serves three acute care hospitals two long-term acute care hospital and 17 skilled nursing facilities in the Tampa Bay area. Hospitalists are physicians usually internists who specialize in providing care to patients while they are hospitalized. IPC (NASDAQ: IPCM) a national hospitalist physician group practice has been in the Tampa market since 2004 but not in the same facilities served by Synergy the release said. As a result of the Synergy acquisition IPC expects to add about 51000 patient encounters annually.
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