| eMedicalFiles' MDAware(R) EHR Receives CCHIT Certification
ATLANTA, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- eMedicalFiles(R), a Web-based health information technology (HIT) company, today announced that its MDAware 2.2(R) EHR has earned CCHIT(SM) certification and meets the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology's (CCHIT) ambulatory EHR criteria for 2006. The system is Web-based and incorporates IntelliFinger(TM) biometric authentication technology. The MDAware(R) EHR provides dashboard reporting, three levels of patient privacy, and technical security safeguards for physician protection. eMedicalFiles' MDAware(R) EHR system technology is already designed to satisfy the 15 draft antifraud measures proposed by the model requirements executive team(M-RET), which was created by RTI International on behalf of the Office of the National Coordinator(ONC) for Health Information Technology.
People on the move
Mickey Woodham has joined inferno, a full-service advertising, marketing, design, and public relations firm, as quality control manager. She will be responsible for proofreading and editing of all copy; ensuring adherence of client brand standards in design layouts; coordinating workflow with traffic manager; and developing/implementing systems to reinforce high standards of quality. Frank Allen, financial adviser with Shoemaker Financial, has earned his Certified Financial Planner CFP(R) designation. Allen, who also holds a CPA (inactive) designation, serves as treasurer of the American Red Cross, Mid-South Chapter. .
May Is The Month For Asthma Awareness
May is just around the corner, and that means asthma is once again taking its place on the national and international stage. The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) will be celebrating Allergy and Asthma Month here in the U.S., and World Asthma Day is coming up May 1.
As we have for several years now, the AARC will be providing free asthma screenings on Capitol Hill during Asthma Awareness Day, which this year is scheduled for May 2.
Working with colleagues from the Allergy & Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics, AARC representative Tom Striplin, MEd, RRT, is coordinating the event, which will give respiratory therapists the chance to network with key Congressional staff and even some legislators, who will come by to get tested and learn more about the need to raise awareness of asthma and the role respiratory therapists play in caring for people with the condition.
Media Ignore John Conyers' Breathtaking DDT Ignorance
Tuesday was Africa Malaria Day, and Michigan Representative John Conyers marked the event by inviting something called the Pesticide Action Network to Capitol Hill to denounce DDT as an unsafe malaria intervention. What was he thinking? Malaria, which is spread through mosquito bites, kills about a million people annually, mostly children and pregnant women in Africa. We're not sure where the House Judiciary Chairman got his medical expertise, but he won't reduce that death toll by promoting disinformation about DDT and malaria prevention. And at taxpayers' expense, no less. PAN and a shrinking band of other activist know-nothings insist that employing DDT against malaria is "especially dangerous for developing infants and children," but there is no scientific basis to the claim.
Provista Life Sciences & Sun Health Research Institute Execute ...
Provista Life Sciences LLC (PLS) announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Strategic Collaboration with the Sun Health Research Institute. Sun Health Research Institute and Provista Life Sciences have common interests in the diagnostic space associated with dementia recognition and detection, especially as it relates to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Sun Health Research Institute is a private, non-profit biomedical research center located in Sun City, Arizona. The Institute is dedicated to the study of age-related diseases, and is one of just 29 national Alzheimer's Disease Core Centers in the nation. Provista Life Sciences is a biotechnology commercialization organization located in Phoenix, Arizona. PLS identifies and acquires the rights to promising medical diagnostics technologies that it intends to commercialize and then unifies their respective operational and business development activities under its management company.
IBM's new 5 innovations
MUMBAI: IBM is introducing its own Next Five in Five, a view on five innovations These five innovations were selected based on projects in their research labs, research conducted by their business think tank, and ideas pooled from more than 150,000 people from 104 countries who took part in a recent online brainstorming session called IBM Innovation Jam.
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Student wins New York Times Kristof contest
This summer, while most fourth-year medical students prepare to start their residencies, Leana Wen will be making preparations of a different sort.
In June, she will be traveling to Africa with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof to focus on health and education issues, food insecurity, AIDS and other development topics.
Wen will be traveling to Rwanda, eastern Congo and Burundi as part of Kristof's annual Win-a-Trip contest in which he travels with a student and teacher to spread awareness of issues in Africa.
"I wanted a way to tell my patients' stories," said Wen. "I've been abroad, I've seen lots of suffering and injustices in the world and I thought that being on a trip with Nicholas Kristof would be the perfect way to communicate with the public about social justice issues."
Wen describes her impression of Kristof over the phone as "thoughtful" and "deliberate." She also praised his style of visiting leaders, cities, villages and people in the places he visits.
WalkAmerica coming to Suffolk
The 2007 Suffolk "WalkAmerica" for March of Dimes will be held on Sunday, May 6. By 12:30 that afternoon, dozens of families, volunteers and community leaders will take over the King's Fork High School stadium to commence a ceremony and a three and a half mile walk. Many there know that March of Dimes is one of the leaders in fundraising and research for saving babies' lives, yet the beginnings of this organization have had important historical ramifications and medical breakthroughs that go untold. The March of Dimes Web site, www.marchofdimes.com, tells the story of how this influential organization began and where it is headed in the future.March of Dimes was actually founded through the efforts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1938, the president, wheelchair bound from his personal fight with polio, was watching as the disease was afflicting more and more of the American people, and especially youth of the country.
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