Electronic Prior Authorization Program to Help Patients Get Faster Access to Prescription Medication

...ge. Physicians can check for potentially harmful drug interactions at the point of prescribing, or follow-up with patients when iScribe alerts them to unfilled prescriptions. The convenience of a mobile device ensures patient prescriber history is with them at all times -- either in the office or when the pre...

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and CVS Caremark Reach 5.5 Million e-Prescriptions

...ge. Physicians can check for potentially harmful drug interactions at the point of prescribing, or follow-up with patients when iScribe alerts them to unfilled prescriptions. The convenience of a mobile device ensures patient prescriber history is with them at all times -- either in the office or when the pre...

Marian College and St.Vincent Health Announce Collaboration To Address Nursing Shortage in Indiana

... According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the nursing shortage has severe national implications, with approximately 1 million unfilled nursing positions projected by 2020. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), has reported that nursing schools must increase the numb...

Laid Off Public Health Workers Excluded From Senate Stimulus, Governmental Health Laboratories Slammed by Recession

...ries nationwide have seen their budgets cut by approximately $39 million. Laboratories nationwide either laid off or left unfilled an estimated 429 full-time employees/positions and expect to see another 246 layoffs/unfilled positions in 2009. Eighty-f...

AdherenceRx Partners with Hummingbird Coaching To Increase Patient Medication Adherence

...on with state-of-the-art communications technology. Pharmaceutical companies, managed care organizations, and employers can reduce the high number of unfilled prescriptions and positively influence patient outcomes. "Reminder letters, copay incentives, and other patient support programs have a modes...

AHCA/Alliance Detail Components of Long Term Care Economic Recovery, Jobs Plan

...ursing facilities have more than 100,000 current vacancies for registered nurses, therapists, licensed practical nurses and aides, with countless more unfilled positions within other areas of the post-acute/long term care sector. Retraining dollars and other incentives designed to expand the available labor p...

Oxford Performance Materials Received ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 Certification

... for contract moulding of PEKK parts, manufacture of PEKK polymer resin and unfilled and filled PEKK polymer shapes. The Certificate was issued by TUV USA Inc. ... for contract moulding of PEKK parts, manufacture of PEKK polymer resin and unfilled and filled PEKK polymer shapes. The Certificate was issued by TUV USA Inc. ...

Misonix Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Results

...ed by the gain on the sale of the Company's equity interest and previously written off debt in Focus Surgery, Inc. The Company reported a backlog of unfilled orders as of September 30, 2008 of $8,164,000 compared to $7,221,000 as of September 30, 2007. Medical device products backlog was $4,361,000 and labo...

The California Board of Registered Nursing Approves Affiliations for Nursing Program in Glendale, California

... Glendale Adventist facilities by faculty appointed there. The nationwide nursing shortage is reaching alarming scope with approximately one million unfilled nursing positions projected by 2020(1). According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), nursing schools must increase the number ...

Veterinary medicine contributes $3.3 billion to New England economy

...nt of Cummings School graduates remaining in New England, trends suggest that 378 of the school's graduates will enter the region's workforce, leaving unfilled 658 new vacancies for veterinarians. What's more, the study suggests that the region faces a flood of retirements among food animal veterinarians....

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The unfilled promise of corporate intranets

Both users and creators of corporate intranets are frustrated. In a recent Moreover survey, 58 percent of respondents said the Internet was their primary information resource at work, but only 11 percent considered the intranet to be their main source of information. Given all the money and effort ...

The MedZilla Report: June 2009 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health

... people, which is the average for the first two quarters of 2009. Generally, hospital systems have continued eliminating jobs and leaving open jobs unfilled due to loss of profits, an increase in uninsured patient care, and a decrease in reimbursements from insurance companies including Medicare and Medica...

A Perfect Storm Threatens Patient Access to Specialty Medical Care

...ted to grow 673 percent by 2030. Yet, of the 92 fellowship programs in the United States to train surgeons in total joint replacement, 38 percent went unfilled in 2007-08, Iorio said. Iorio attributes the shortfall to declining Medicare reimbursement policies. "Since 1992, Medicare has cut surgeon reimburse...

New filter clears up fiber optic communications

...ry to drop off individual wavelength channels at different points on the fiber. At the same time, it's essential to be able to add data streams into unfilled wavelength channels. "When the data being transported in multiple frequency channels over an optical fiber comes to a receiving station, you want ...

The ON* is on the Employer

...ers (b. 1943 1960) continue to exit the workforce, by choice or not. Employers will be facing an HR supply-demand nightmare - an excess of 10 million unfilled jobs combined with a shortage of young talent to fill these positions. That does not leave much time to educate, attract, grow and retain talent. Com...

APIs announces health care shift-bidding software

...nsiders to be the most pressing industry challenges: employee recruiting and retention. After a work period is scheduled, managers are able to post unfilled shifts so that part-time employees or employees seeking extra hours can bid on these time slots. Similar to an online auction, managers designate avai...

IT workforce development: Losing the numbers game

... replace the technologists that soon will be retiring in droves, and with computer science enrollment dropping precipitously, IT jobs are either being unfilled or are taking long periods of time to fill. As a result, businesses are having difficulty finding creative problem solvers in an era where IT genes...

IT workforce development: A little workforce planning goes a long way

...ddress the IT worker shortage. Milwaukee, Wis . - If the estimates are accurate, about 10 percent of all information technology positions will go unfilled this year, and then the IT labor shortage will kick into high gear. That's the stark reality facing Wisconsin businesses, especially as Baby Boomers a...