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5,000 CA nurses set plans for strike

October 10, 2007 — 6:59am ET
After months of unsuccessful talks, nurses at 15 hospitals in northern California are set to begin a 48-hour strike today. The strike, which involves about 5,000 RNs, mostly impacts Sutter Health,... Read more...

NHS official says MD input ignored on project

June 28, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The former top medical advisor to the U.K.'s $36.3 billion National Health Infrastructure IT project says he believes organizers chose to ignore physician input in the planning stages of the initiative. Professor Peter Hutton told the Financial Times he was asked to leave his post shortly after complaining to superiors that doctors' views on IT purchases were not being aired adequately. The project has since fallen behind schedule and has drawn criticism from many doctors in the …

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Lessons learned from KatrinaHealth

June 12, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The non-profit Markle Foundation released a report today that assesses the impact e-prescribing had during the response to Hurricane Katrina. In the days after the storm struck, a group of non-profits and tech companies pooled their resources to launch KatrinaHealth.org, a Web site that gave authorized medical professionals online access to medical information gathered from a number of sources. Organizers were able to gain access to prescription data from government databases, private …

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Children's Hospital database plan draws protests

June 6, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said it is launching an ambitious plan to create a database that will hold DNA profiles for as many as 100,000 of its patients. Organizers hope that the data will help researchers build on the scientific advances of the past decade, allowing scientists to learn more about the genetic factors involved in various diseases. Privacy advocates are crying foul however, arguing that the open-ended nature of the project could lead to abuses.

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NHS health IT project draws critics

May 30, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The BBC reports that most British doctors disapprove of the NHS' attempts to implement Choose and Book, an online booking service that is intended to be a centerpiece of the UK's health IT infrastructure project. Only one in five British doctors surveyed by the BBC say they use the system and about fifty percent rate it as "poor or fairly poor." The majority say they would like to see an "independent review of the entire scheme by technical experts to check its basic viability." The …

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Historic advance in regenerative technology?

April 3, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

A team at Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School has grown replacement urinary bladders and transplanted them successfully into patients, marking the first time that doctors have been able to replace a failing human organs with laboratory-grown replacements. Observers say the success of the project suggests that it may soon be possible to grow other replacement organs. The charmingly named "neo-bladders" were grown from patients' own cells, making rejection less of an issue. The …

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Cleveland Clinic plans Canadian venture

March 19, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

With the Canadian healthcare market warming to private care, the Cleveland Clinic is among the providers testing the waters north of the border with a new venture calculated to attract patients who want quick access to a specialist. Cleveland Clinic Canada, a joint-partnership with the Copeland Group, will operate out of a 25,000 square foot office in Toronto. Organizers hope the project will lure Canadian customers to the United States for further treatment. The provider hopes to attract …

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SPOTLIGHT: San Diego project creates embryo bank

March 8, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

A new effort based in San Diego is collecting leftover embryos from area in vitro fertilization clinics with the goal of sending them to stem cell researchers around the world. The project, which will be known as the Stem Cell Resource, is believed to be the first public embryo bank in the US. The Stem Cell Resource is backed by researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and a local in vitro fertilization specialist. Organizers say they have already been contacted by …

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ePrescribing project enjoys early success

February 23, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The Henry Ford Medical Group filled more than 500,000 prescriptions during the first year of one of the largest ePrescribing projects in the country, according to sponsors. The ePrescribe Initiative is a joint initiative of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler and the Henry Ford Health System. The technical aspects of the project are being managed by Medco. Organizers certainly have reason to be pleased. They claim more than 80,000 prescriptions were changed after drug-interaction …

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SPOTLIGHT: Doctors to get Rx Data in pilot

February 13, 2006 — 8:01pm ET


Physicians in some areas of the country will have online access to a complete patient prescription history under a new initiative launched by the SureScripts network. The data will include information about dosages and important information on whether prescriptions are being filled and refilled. SureScripts is a joint venture of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the National Community Pharmacists Association. The service will be available in New Jersey, Florida, …

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