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Many adults do not understand health information. Nearly half of all American adults 90 million have difficulty understanding and using health information, and there is a higher rate of hospitalization and use of emergency services among patients with such limited health literacy, states a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
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At the 16th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in Washington in late September, companies big and small presented compelling data from various studies for new products that they hope will lead to newly approved products in the interventional cardiology sector as well as showcased recently cleared devices that could potentially revolutionize the medical field.
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Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, California) reported that it has enhanced its core heart valve business with the acquisition of all technology and intellectual property associated with ev3s (Plymouth, Minnesota) percutaneous mitral valve repair program for roughly $15 million.
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Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois), the University of Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany) and Innovectis (also Frankfurt) have signed an exclusive license agreement that provides Dade Behring with worldwide rights for the inventions of a research group at the university that relate to placental growth factor (PlGF) for cardiovascular diseases, soluble CD40 ligand for the prognosis of the course of disease in acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and additional markers for cardiovascular diseases.
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Access managers could benefit by stretching a bit beyond their boundaries and actively seeking participation in the clinical side of health care, suggests Karen McKinley, RN, CHAM, vice president of patient access and care management for Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA.
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Thirty-six million Americans do not have access to basic health care because they live in communities with an acute shortage of health care providers.
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The latest survey of 631 providers, payers, companies, and clearinghouses by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) indicates that as of mid-January, only half had completed testing for the Transaction and Code Standards (TCS), which standardized what information must be contained in electronic claims and how it should be transmitted.
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A security consulting firm that is providing security risk assessment and compliance review services for small health care related businesses says one way to increase incentives for physicians to come into compliance with HIPAA requirements would be for malpractice insurers to offer reduced premiums to those who have done a risk assessment and are moving forward on implementation.
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