Management Information system (MIS) has been defined by Weitkamp in his book ‘ Integrated Health Systems- logic, information and strategy- A Master’s Paper’ as ‘computer or linked computer systems designed to inform…
Hospitals are making a push towards Electronic Health Records
The Stimulus Bill of President Obama includes $ 19.2 billion for meaningful use of Health IT by hospital systems in United States. In order to take advantage of this financial incentive, hospitals…
NextGen Healthcare Addresses Four Critical Health IT Issues at HIMSS10
HORSHAM, Pa., Feb 25, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — At the Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition (HIMSS10), NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions and…
GE Healthcare takes its message to Olympic viewers
Feb 25, 2010 (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — One of the most prominent advertisers during the Winter Olympics is hawking goods that few households will ever need:…
Demand for Hospital Beds in Saudi Arabia Continue to Surge
Feb 24, 2010 – Saudi healthcare market looks quite promising with plenty of investment opportunities. Saudi Arabia needs both foreign investment and expertise to develop its healthcare system to cope with an…
Half of Infection Deaths Linked Directly to Hospital Care – Study
25th feb 2010 Wall Street Journal has published the following artical which claims that there is large number of deaths which are resulted due to infection controll at the hospitals . Sepsis…
DHA holds dentistry seminar on prevention and infection control
Dubai, Feb 25th, 2010 The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) held a seminar to focus on the importance of prevention and infection control in Dentistry. Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Al Kalban, CEO of Primary…
NIH and FDA Collaborate to Speed Therapies
February 25, 2010 — US The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced a new partnership to speed the biomedical advances their processing time…
Experts in Qatar symposium highlight healthcare advancement
DOHA: Mortality rates have declined and people are living longer, many with chronic diseases. These changing demographics, which have profound consequences for healthcare and its delivery, according to experts at a continuing…
Arthritis cases on the rise in Qatar
DOHA: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is increasingly becoming a common problem here with majority of the sufferers being women in Qatar. Though no complete cure is available till date, latest advancements in the…
Pfizer’s experimental osteoporosis drug lasofoxifene works about as well as other – Review
According to a commentary published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pfizer’s experimental osteoporosis drug lasofoxifene, which is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval, works about as well as currently approved…
Mid-Day Nap Boosts Brain Performance: Study
A new and interesting study found that sleep is not important just for children; a mid-day nap of about 90 minutes benefits adults as well. This nap supposedly primes the brain and…
Acupuncture Spells Relief For Depression During Pregnancy
A study that included 150 women who were 12-14 weeks pregnant with major depression concluded that acupuncture might provide relief from depression when these women were randomly assigned to undergo the procedure….
Stroke Numbers Surging In Young Adults: A ‘Reason To Worry’ According To Experts
Strangely, the incidence of strokes has been going down in the old and going up in the young, a group that was previously never considered being at high risk for the debilitating…
Lactose Intolerance Poorly Understood: Experts
A U.S. National Institutes of Health draft consensus statement released a suggestion that most people who think they are lactose intolerant, may actually not be. This revelation paved a way for these…