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Smart Association, Inc. Announces Largest Healthcare Smart Card Program at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center

23 hours ago ago from Smart Card Alliance

Citrus Heights, CA SMART Association, Inc., ( ) announced today that its newest client, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center of Brooklyn, New York, will implement the nation's largest healthcare smart card program. The program, slated to issue over 110,000 smart cards to Wyckoff's patients, will begin implementation by first quarter of 2010. Wyckoff's CEO, Rajiv Garg is a former Head of Global Risk Management who understands finance and ...

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Niles area medical facilities merge

23 hours ago ago from The Niles Star

Like lawmakers across the country, Michigan members of Congress and the Senate continue to work through the process of making health care reform a reality. While the work continues in Washington, two of southwest Michigan's notable health care institutions announced last week a join of forces in an attempt to provide increased services to patients throughout the area. Lakeland HealthCare and Southwestern Medical Clinic will combine ...

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Web Petition: Transparency and Openness in Electronic Patient Records and Other Healthcare Information Technology Systems

19 hours ago ago from Health Care Renewal

I have created a new Web petition "Transparency and Openness in Electronic Patient Records and Other Healthcare Information Technology Systems." It is at WEBPETITIONS.COM at this link: http://www.webpetitions.com/cgi-bin/print_petition.cgi?99504454 The petition states: We, the undersigned, believe in transparency, accuracy, and accountability in scientific research, especially in matters related to healthcare. We believe contractual ...

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Interleukin 17 may explain severe pneumonia in H1N1 patients | Science Codex

22 hours ago ago from Science Codex | Science news, science articles, all day, every day

RSS Feeds » Sitewide | Earth | Heavens | Body | Brain | Culture | Technology Home Earth Heavens Body Brain Culture Tech Interleukin 17 may explain severe pneumonia in H1N1 patients Posted On: December 15, 2009 - 3:30pm An international team of Canadian and Spanish scientists have found the first potential immunological ...

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Look to Nurses To Champion Patient Safety - NurseZone

9 hours ago ago from Nursing News, Nursing Jobs, Nursing Journals & Travel Nursing Resources at NurseZone.com

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National Briefing | South: Louisiana: Post-Storm Autopsy Sought

9 hours ago ago from The New York Times

The New Orleans district attorney has requested an autopsy on a terminally ill patient whose doctor acknowledged increasing the drugs the patient received in the wake of Hurricane Katrina , the city's coroner said. The disclosure came after a state judge last week ordered the district attorney, Leon Cannizzaro Jr., either to confirm he was investigating the deaths of patients at Memorial Medical Center or to state that no investigation was ...

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26 Arrested in Three States in Medicare Fraud Schemes

11 hours ago ago from The New York Times

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Federal agents arrested 26 suspects in three states on Tuesday, including a doctor and nurses, in a crackdown on Medicare fraud totaling $61 million. Arrests in three separate cases in Brooklyn, Detroit and Miami included a Florida doctor accused of running a $40 million home health care scheme that falsely listed patients as blind diabetics so he could bill for twice-daily nurse visits. The Department of ...

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Immigrants Lose Lawsuit Against Atlanta Hospital

9 hours ago ago from The New York Times

ATLANTA Efforts to force the public hospital here to continue providing free dialysis treatment to a group of immigrants, most of them illegal, suffered a setback on Tuesday when a judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the recent closing of the hospital's outpatient renal clinic. David Walter Banks for The New York Times A Honduran who had been getting free dialysis treatment. A lawyer for the roughly 50 patients ...

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AP sources: Busts in 3 states over Medicare fraud

1 day ago ago from U.S. News

AP sources: Busts in 3 states over Medicare fraud FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Federal agents arrested several suspects and expected to roundup about 30 in three states Tuesday on charges related to Medicare fraud totaling $61 million as the government cracks down on waste under health care overhaul plans. Authorities at the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, speaking on condition of anonymity ...

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