The Google Flu Trends project is a great example of not only the potential use for big data at a public health level, but also some of the challenges that ...
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Summa Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls recently ditched its paper charts in favor of a completely computerized system for patient care and billing.The project -- known as CARE One, ...
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Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc said its cancer diagnostic agent was effective in identifying the first lymph node reached by the disease in patients with head and neck cancer, paving the way ...
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A medical device company with a new way to help surgeons gauge the success of spinal fusion surgeries has just arrived in Northeast Ohio, and investors in the area have ...
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As the number of laparoscopic procedures being performed at hospitals and surgery centers outgrows the number of open surgeries, facilities are investing millions of dollars into equipment to improve these ...
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Active negotiations between health insurer Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Cincinnati hospital group UC Health over reimbursement rates is the latest health provider/payer dispute made public. This time ...
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Doctors from across the globe are getting specialty medical training via a studio tucked inside Akron Children's Hospital.Thousands of physicians worldwide have participated in web-based continuing medical education conferences offered ...
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The governors of Ohio and Arkansas, seeking a way around conservative state legislators who refuse to expand Medicaid, want to insure some of their poorest residents using a market-based approach.The ...
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The push by the government to reduce healthcare costs and the increased liability providers have is forcing them to more easily identify and help chronic care patients to better manage ...
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Market research has suggested that neuromodulation devices make up the fastest-growing segment of the medical device sector, forecasting some $7 billion in sales within five years. Although medical device giants ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors need to give antibiotics to more than 12,000 people with acute respiratory infections to prevent just one of them from being hospitalized with pneumonia, ...
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Thanks to a new three-year, $1 million grant, a group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University are continuing to develop and test a form of glucose-responsive insulin that may ...
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After more than a decade of development and a couple regulatory delays, Navidea Biopharmaceuticals (NYSE:NAVB) finally got the FDA approval it needs to begin marketing its radiopharmaceutical Lymphoseek.In a conference ...
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Cleveland-based Athersys (NYSE:ATHX) has a full plate as it continues to advance its “off the shelf” stem cell therapy, MultiStem, through clinical trials in several indications. That means shareholders can ...
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When the Cleveland Clinic determined in 2008 that its anesthesia information management system wasn’t meeting its needs, the Clinic charged leaders within its own walls with creating a better system. ...
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