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Smart Choices Program helps shoppers identify food and beverage choices

... a product has met strict science-based nutrition criteria derived from the Dietary Guidelines for ... coalition worked very hard to develop nutrition criteria that met the highest of standards and a symbol ... healthy habits for the long-term." Nutrition criteria To display the Smart Choices Program symbol, ...

Mayo Clinic study continues to refine most effective methods to predict Alzheimer's disease

... A new Mayo Clinic study found that the clinical criteria for mild cognitive impairment is better at ... years. Scores on a memory test and the clinical criteria for mild cognitive impairment (including a memory ... disease. The team found that the clinical criteria for mild cognitive impairment was better able to ...

Mayo Clinic Study Continues to Refine Most Effective Methods to Predict Alzheimer's Disease

... A new Mayo Clinic study found that the clinical criteria for mild cognitive impairment is better at ... years. Scores on a memory test and the clinical criteria for mild cognitive impairment (including a memory ... disease. The team found that the clinical criteria for mild cognitive impairment was better able to ...

GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy June issue study highlights

... Also in the June issue, researchers present a new criteria for the endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) diagnosis of ... standardization in EUS terminology, features and criteria for the condition has made it difficult to ... practice. The researchers believe the new criteria represent an improvement over the current means ...

OpusClinicalSuite(R) Achieves 08 CCHIT Certification as Inpatient EHR

... Opus Clinical Suite (R) Version 2.3 has met the criteria set by the Certification Commission for Health ... of functionality, interoperability and security criteria and has passed inspection of 100 percent of the ... have received CCHIT certification under the 08 criteria for this classification (see ...

Largest Software Release in HMS History Now Generally Available

... for community hospital customers to reach ARRA criteria NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ... inpatient electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2007. Though HMS' CCHIT certification ... to help our customers meet the 'meaningful use' criteria and qualify for reimbursement monies at the first ...

Netsmart's Haines Reappointed to CCHIT Behavioral Health Work Group

... Work Group in Final Year of Developing criteria for Behavioral Health EHR Technology GREAT ... and is tasked with developing certification criteria and test scripts for behavioral health electronic ... role in developing standards-based conformance criteria for EHRs," said James L. Conway, chief executive ...

Glenwood System LLC'S GlaceEMR Receives 08 CCHIT Certification Software Complies with Updated Interoperability Requirements

... Commission’s electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. Ambulatory EHRs are ... Commission’s electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. Ambulatory EHRs are ... electronic patient summary. These and other new criteria will ensure that certified health IT products ...

MD On-Line, Inc. Receives EHNAC Healthcare Network Accreditation

... that the organization meets or exceeds all EHNAC criteria and industry standards. Through completion of the ... This rigorous assessment encompassed several criteria including security procedures, privacy practices, ... organization established to develop standard criteria and accredit organizations that electronically ...

Doctors Love its Usability & CCHIT Recognizes its Functionality; CureMD EHR v10 CCHIT 08 Certified

... Commission's electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. The Certification ... the third year of the program's operation, the criteria and testing have been significantly updated again ... and security. The Commission added 19 criteria to the 200 required in 2007. Those changes were ...

Are we cherry picking participants for studies of antidepressants?

... patients who met phase III study inclusion criteria to those who did not. Phase III studies for ... drug in comparison to a placebo. The inclusion criteria for these studies are not standardized nor ... or 22.2 percent, of the patients met the usual criteria for inclusion in phase III antidepressant trials. ...

Many Who Should Use Statins Don't

... -- Nearly half of the Americans who meet the criteria for taking cholesterol-lowering statins aren't ... Survey to identify 777 adults who met the criteria set by the National Cholesterol Education Program for statin therapy. Those criteria consider not only blood levels of LDL ...

Sage Intergy EHR Receives 08 CCHIT Certification

... Commission's electronic health record ( EHR ) criteria for office-based use. Ambulatory EHR s are ... electronic patient summary. These and other new criteria will ensure that certified health IT products ... In the third year of the program's operation, the criteria and testing have been significantly updated again ...

FDA Approves Symbyax(R) as First Medication for Treatment-Resistant Depression

... Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM-IV) criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) and did not ... A second study of 28 patients who met the same criteria for TRD demonstrated statistically significant ... of depressed patients (n=251) who met the same criteria for treatment resistance. Although not ...

Study Finds Millions More May Benefit From Statins

... New prescribing criteria could prevent thousands of heart attacks ... deaths each year if we expand statin-prescribing criteria to include C-reactive protein levels, something ... in the Hopkins news release. Using these new criteria to prescribe statins to older adults could ...

6.5 million more patients might benefit from statins to prevent heart attacks, strokes

... from statins. If they expanded their search criteria to the cholesterol level cutoff of 160 mg/dl that ... deaths each year if we expand statin-prescribing criteria to include C-reactive protein levels, something ... statins to older adults using this new criteria that incorporates CRP would prevent about 260,000 ...

CIMRO of Nebraska Uses Milliman Care Guidelines(R) for Nebraska Medicare Reviews

... in Nebraska. The Care Guidelines replace criteria sets that CIMRO of Nebraska adapted from those in ... not mandate or endorse the use of any specific criteria set by QIOs or hospitals. Twelve QIOs now ... factors led us to adopt nationally developed criteria to improve quality and assure proper care to ...

Silk Information Systems's Silk V 4.2 Receives 08 CCHIT Certification

... Commission's electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. Ambulatory EHRs are ... electronic patient summary. These and other new criteria will ensure that certified health IT products ... In the third year of the program's operation, the criteria and testing have been significantly updated again ...

Advanced Data System's MedicsDocAssistant™ EHR Receives 08 CCHIT Certification

... Commission's electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. Ambulatory EHRs are ... electronic patient summary. These and other new criteria will ensure that certified health IT products ... the third year of the program's operation, the criteria and testing have been significantly updated again ...

NABP Wins ASAE's 2009 Associations Advance America Award of Excellence

... appear to be operating in conflict with program criteria - 1,753 of them, as of February 27, 2009, or 98% ... completed the well-recognized and rigorous VIPPS criteria evaluation and on-site inspection. These lists, along with program criteria and related patient information, are accessible ...

ValueOptions(R) New Mexico Files Formal Protest of Award of New Mexico Behavioral Health Contract to United

... award to UnitedHealth/Optum was not based on criteria published in the RFP, that evaluation criteria were improperly applied, that evidence regarding ... contract award was not based upon the evaluation criteria published in the RFP . Although the RFP ...

Cradle to Cradle(SM) Digs Beneath the Surface with New Ingredient Certification

... choosing materials that meet key sustainability criteria for material health and material reutilization" ... end-products that met a series of environmental criteria with four levels of attainment, each requiring a ... an ingredient must meet the "Gold" level criteria for material health and material reutilization, ...

Allscripts Receives 2008 CCHIT Certification

... Commission's electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. (Logo: ... electronic patient summary. These and other new criteria will ensure that certified health IT ... In the third year of the program's operation, the criteria and testing have been significantly updated again ...

New appropriate use criteria guide treatment of patients with heart blockage

... The new document, titled "Appropriate Use criteria for Coronary Revascularization," appears in the ... R. Patel, M.D., chair of the appropriate use criteria writing group and an assistant professor of ... health status." The new appropriate use criteria are the first to focus on cardiac treatment, ...

Eligibility criteria contribute to racial disparities in hospice use

... Cancer Society, indicates that the eligibility criteria for hospice services should be reconsidered. ... findings suggest that the hospice eligibility criteria of Medicare and other insurers requiring patients ... hospice use," the authors wrote. "Moreover, these criteria do not select those patients with the greatest ...

Study Showed New Episodes of Depression Delayed in People Taking Cymbalta(R)

... into the study, 288 patients met response criteria at the end of up to 34 weeks treatment and were ... greater than or equal to 4 and meeting DSM-IV criteria for major depressive disorder; three consecutive visits meeting re-emergence criteria or 10 total re-emergence visits; or study ...

New Criteria Could Expand Number of Liver Transplant Candidates

... -- Many patients with liver cancer who don't meet criteria used to select transplant patients could actually ... according to an Italian study. The Milan criteria specifies that liver cancer patients with a ... Survival of patients who don't meet the criteria is unpredictable, and there are no evidence-based ...

Medicaid policies vary widely for rheumatoid arthritis drugs

... when the policy had been implemented and what criteria needed to be met for payment to be approved. The ... as to which drugs were included and the criteria required both in terms of the amount of detail ... complex, the wide variability in authorization criteria reveals limitations in policy development. "It is ...

MedPlexus Electronic Health Record Receives 08 CCHIT Certification

... Commission's electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. Ambulatory EHRs are ... patient summary. These and other new criteria will ensure that certified health IT products ... In the third year of the program's operation, the criteria and testing have been significantly updated again ...

Epilepsy drug may help alcoholics recover from dependence, small study suggests

... Nearly 14 million Americans meet the diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse or alcoholism. Alcohol ... of 12 weeks All of the volunteers met national criteria for alcohol dependence, and were either in ... to abstain from alcohol. They also all met criteria for insomnia that had lasted six months or more. ...

gloEMR Version 4.0, gloStream's Flagship Electronic Medical Record Solution, Receives 2007 CCHIT Certification

... ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2007. By looking to products with the CCHIT ... ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2007. Ambulatory EHRs are designed for ... second year of the program's operation, the criteria and testing have been significantly enhanced. The ...

Availity Awarded Full EHNAC Accreditation

... ) Achieving a near perfect score on criteria self-assessment documentation and site reviews, ... assessment of compliance with current performance criteria verified by a site review and approval by ... care EDI industry: -- Established minimum criteria for industry self-regulation -- Encourages firms ...

July/August 2008 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet

... By Elisabeth W.M. Verhoeven, M.Sc., et al criteria for Good Qualitative Research A content ... research in health care revealed seven evaluative criteria for this type of research: (1) carrying out ... of verification or reliability. Evaluative criteria for Qualitative Research in Health Care: ...

Avalere Examines Emerging Strategies for Managing Imaging Utilization

... new pilot program to test ACCF's appropriateness criteria for SPECT-MPI, an advanced imaging technique. ... interest in applying imaging appropriateness criteria and accreditation to the Medicare program; ... Trends and the Increasing Use of Appropriateness criteria and Accreditation" was authored by Cara ...

Also in the June 24 JNCI

... Proposed criteria for Evaluating Large Cohort Studies Shows Impact of Nurses' Health Study Established criteria for evaluating the impact of large epidemiologic ... Institute in Bethesda, Md., propose a set of criteria that follow the discovery, development, and ...

American College of Physicians commends MedPAC June 2008 report to Congress

... refined through the development of additional criteria to target the increases specifically to primary ... report also outlined a number of stringent criteria that practices must meet to be eligible for ... a suitable number of the practices in meeting the criteria and participating in the pilot. "The need ...

SCAI Creates New Council for Rising Interest in Interventional Therapies for Structural Heart Disease

... specific to structural heart disease, establish criteria for structural heart disease research, and ... society to develop guidelines and performance criteria for this emerging field," said Dr. Feldman. "We ... in establishing objective performance criteria for interventional therapies in structural heart ...

Organizers of cancer clinical trials are neglecting teenagers and young adults

... "At present, the design and age eligibility criteria for trials tend to reflect whether the trial ... However, amending the age eligibility criteria of trials may not completely address the problem ... beyond the age of 15 despite an age eligibility criteria which spans the whole paediatric and TYA ...

Highmark Blue Shield and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Name Area Hospitals as 2008 Blue Distinction Centers for Bariatric Care

... These hospitals have met numerous selection criteria thresholds necessary to be named as a Blue ... improvement programs The full list of selection criteria are available to the public at ... is based on rigorous, evidence-based selection criteria established in collaboration with ...

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Name Area Hospitals as 2008 Blue Distinction Centers for Bariatric Care

... These hospitals have met numerous selection criteria thresholds necessary to be named as a Blue ... improvement programs The full list of selection criteria are available to the public at ... is based on rigorous, evidence-based selection criteria established in collaboration with ...