1. Radiotherapy Delay Causes Breast Cancer Recurrence
(Modalities/Radiology )

...  Demographic information was identified using data from the 2000 US population census, and women were followed up for an average of five years. The results showed that starting radiotherapy more than ...

2. CancerCare Of Maine Selects Versus Solution
(Company News/Versus Technology, Inc.)

... not only helps staff locate patients and one another throughout multiple treatment areas, it also provides real-time census data, allowing facilities to monitor patient-to-staff ratios. The same signaling ...

3. SJH Selects PCTS Amelior Tracker
(Company News/Patient Care Technology Systems )

... system, but also includes a unique interface to the Parlance System. We are happy to provide a system that will allow the elimination of overhead paging for physicians, and an accurate in-house census ...

4. Mammographic density Varies By SES: Study
(Modalities/Mammography)

... In a cross-sectional study of mammographic density in 487 pre-menopausal women, SES was assessed from questionnaire data using highest achieved level of formal education, quintiles of Census-derived Townsend ...

5. U.S. Office-based EMR/EHR Use Rised in 2008
(EMR (Electronic Medical Records)/EMR)

... 2008, and the 2008 mail survey from April 2008 through August 2008. Trained field representatives from the U.S. Census Bureau conducted in-person interviews to collect data for the core NAMCS. Source: ...

6. Lexi-Comp's New Patient Communication Plan
(Company News/Lexi-Comp, Inc.)

... are available in the 18 languages ranked by the U.S. Census Bureau as the most commonly spoken languages in the U.S. The disease, condition, and procedure leaflets are currently available in English and ...

7. Rising obesity will cost U.S. health care $344 billion annually
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

... Census statistics and medical expenditure information, Thorpe found: •An obese person will have an average of $8,315 in medical bills a year in 2018 compared with $5,855 for an adult at a healthy weight. ...

8. Prevention of breast cancer through health care reform
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... insurance in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And a recent congressional report found that 18 percent of all women not eligible for Medicare are uninsured, which translates to 28 percent of 19 ...

9. Genesis Health System Deploys AeroScout`s Solution for Hospital-Wide Asset Tracking
(Company News/AeroScout, Inc.)

... utilization rates considerably and control the distribution and allocation of assets more effectively. For example, the Supervisor of Logistics at Genesis, Steve Montgomery, uses census data as well as ...

10. Hoag Hospital Implements Emergency Department Automatic Patient Tracking From Patient Care Technology Systems
(Company News/Patient Care Technology Systems )

... (NASDAQ: CSLR), announced that Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has implemented the company's Amelior EDTracker solution to automatically track patients in its 66,000-census emergency department. The ...

11. ARRA Grant Assists Community Health Network to Adopt GE Centricity Practice
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... practice serving the Flint, Mich., area’s uninsured and underinsured. According to 2008 U.S. Census Data, Flint’s poverty rate sits at 35.5 percent, tied for the fifth highest for U.S. medium-size and ...

12. Federal Grant Allows Community Health Center to Adopt GE Healthcare’s EMR
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

... According to 2008 U.S. Census Data, Flint’s poverty rate sits at 35.5 percent, tied for the fifth highest among the country’s medium and large communities. In addition, one in four residents of Genesee ...

13. Southeastern Regional Medical Center Selects Allscripts Care Management
(Company News/AllscriptsMisys Healthcare Solutions, Inc.)

... and alerts based on DRGs, diagnosis and procedure codes that RACs have been focusing on to allow organizations oversight of the current at-risk census population. About Southeastern Regional Medical Center ...

14. Askesis Launches New Behavioral Health Software for EMR
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

... environment with tools supporting clinical workflows, a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR), and streamlined revenue cycle management. Highlights of new functionality include: Bed and Census ...

15. Latest IMV Market Report on U.S. Mammography Centers
(Modalities/Mammography)

... in combination with census databases of U.S. imaging sites with selected modalities, provide clients with valuable assistance in strategic planning, customer satisfaction, market development and sales ...

16. St. Jude Medical Announces FDA Approval of New Features in Remote Patient Care for Implantable Cardiac Devices
(Company News/St Jude Medical, Inc.)

... language option so that clinics can serve a wider population of patients. “The United States Census Bureau estimates that more than 34 million people, or 12 percent of the U.S. population, speak Spanish ...

17. Cumberland Consulting Group secures contract with St. Louis Grace Hill
(Company News/Cumberland Consulting Group, LLC)

... centers serving low income and uninsured residents in 45 census tracts in the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County. The organization is accredited through the Joint Commission. Cumberland Consulting ...

18. MedQuist Introduces Web-Based Mobile Dictation Platform to Enhance Physician Workflow
(Company News/MedQuist Inc.)

... anywhere. Rounding is the most recent feature added to PhysAssist IQ Web. Through the implementation of an interface to the HIS or Practice Management System, physicians can have their patient and census ...

19. Disabled hit huge roadblocks in routine health care
(Imported/Imported)

... Center. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, an estimated 49.7 million persons ages 5 and older report a disability, many of whom struggle with structural impairments to health care. This number likely ...

20. IMV nuclear medicine report shows there was a 12 per cent downturn in patient visits from 2005 to 2006
(Communities/Nuclear Molecular)

... to other locations. The data source for this report is IMV’s 2007/08 Nuclear Medicine Census Database, which provides comprehensive profiles of nuclear medicine sites in the United States. The database ...