St. Vincent Health and Indiana Health Information Exchange CMIO to Deliver Beacon Community Research Study Presentation in Seattle

The Institute for Health Technology Transformation announced today that Alan Snell, MD, MMM, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, St. Vincent Health and Indiana Health Information Exchange will be delivering a presentation entitled “Beacon Community Research Study: Reducing Hospital Readmissions via Remote Patient Management” at the Institute’s Health IT Summit in Seattle.

Prescription Drug Information Site Offers Free Medical Marketing Opportunity to Healthcare Professionals

Prescription drug information site PrescriptionDrug-Info announces the launch of its new initiative designed to provide free medical marketing to healthcare professionals and to better connect them with everyday people seeking medical advice. The community’s high volume of activity provides healthcare professionals and people from around the world a convenient platform on which to connect with [...]

Summit Medical Group Hosts the 2011 American Medicine Chest Challenge

Summit Medical Group hosts The 2011 American Medicine Chest Challenge Saturday, November 12, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Walgreen’s Pharmacy on its main campus at 1 Diamond Hill Road. Area residents are invited to take the Five-Step American Medicine Chest Challenge:

Unsafe Drugs: Choosing a Legitimate Canadian Pharmacy.

Americans are getting online to buy prescription drugs from the comfort of their own homes. Thanks to Canadian price control and a favorable currency exchange rate they save up to 90% on their prescription drugs. For example, in Canada, prices for existing patented medications cannot rise by more than the consumer price index. Prices [...]

Canadian Pharmacy’s 30,000+ Online Reviews Give It Top Ratings Among Canadian Online Pharmacies

A reputable Canada pharmacy online, North West Pharmacy, has earned a five out of five star rating from tens of thousands of its customers, making NorthWestPharmacy the most independently five star rated Canadian online pharmacy in the world. In the last 10 months alone, more than 31,000 customers have rated this Canadian pharmacy online on [...]

Lifeclinic International and Get Real Consulting Team-Up to Launch Microsoft’s HealthVault

Lifeclinic International, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of automated blood pressure monitors and health testing stations along with Get Real Consulting, an expert in Internet software development, team-up to launch Microsoft’s HealthVault within Lifeclinic’s family of products. Lifeclinic Chief Medical Officer, John T. Kelly, M.D., Ph.D. says, “Because of the power and [...]

Acumen Fund Honored with Social Capitalist Award by Fast Company & Monitor Group

Acumen Fund, a leading catalyst for sustainable, scalable solutions addressing poverty in South Asia and East Africa, announced today that it has been honored with the 2008 Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award. The award recognizes outstanding organizations whose social impact and organizational effectiveness make them unrivaled leaders of social entrepreneurship. “Acumen Fund is [...]

Two Important New Healthcare Training Sites Launched by IntraLearn Partner – Train for Patient Safety and Train for Pharma sites extend Train for Compliance offerings

IntraLearn Software Corporation, the leading supplier of turnkey e-Learning software applications, announced today that partner Train for Compliance has launched two important new healthcare compliance and practice training websites: Train for Patient Safety and Train for Pharma. Train for Compliance now offers approximately 100 healthcare compliance and practice courses through its affiliated websites. Train for [...]

Find the Hot 100 Indian Pharmaceutical Companies

Piribo, the online destination for business intelligence for the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, has added a key report on pharmaceutical companies operating in India. “Top 100 Indian Pharma Companies: Company Profiles” provides vital statistics and information of the companies. Each profile includes information on the companies like their infrastructure, contacts, lines of business, Product [...]

Caveat Emptor is the Rule with Ordering Medications Online

There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not over a million pharmacies behind every corner on the internet. You can’t surf the seedier side of the web without nearly having a seizure from an animated GIF thrusting Viagra in your face. You can’t open your email without some horrible pidgen english nonsense imploring [...]

Flying School Bus Lands in Guatemala

In early 2004 Mr. Bryan Buchanan, a paramedic from Fayetteville, NC and founder of Jungle Medic Missions, wanted a way of delivering improved emergency care to the Mayan Indians in the jungle of Guatemala. Mr. Buchanan and his wife, Riechelle, had been working in the jungle of Guatemala for two years. Then Bryan had an [...]

Canada caught in pharmaceutical

Canadian pharmacist associations and a couple of Canadian-based health advocacy groups have joined large pharmaceutical companies to interrupt, if not stop, the $ 2 billion or more flow of discounted FDA approved prescriptions into the United States by both squeezing supply and attempting to scare the Canadian public into believing a drug shortage is imminent. [...]

Online Prescription Intermediaries Provide Safe and Legitimate Medications to Seniors

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in a press release on September 6th, 2006, said it stands by its warning to Americans not to buy drugs from Manitoba-based Internet pharmacies, claiming the drugs are counterfeit. Prescription Drug Intermediaries such as Le Pharmacy.com are a safer route. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it [...]

RxShop Inc. Online Pharmacy Provides Discounted Prescription Drugs

RxShop Inc. is an online pharmacy where consumers can purchase generic drugs. RxShop Inc. provides prescription drugs at a fraction of the cost of brand name medicines and guarantees that orders will be shipped within 24 hours. RxShop provides a number of prescription drugs for men’s health, weight loss, pain relief, diabetes, stopping smoking, [...]

North Carolina Firm Offers ‘Global Health Care Option’

A Raleigh, N.C.-based company plans to coordinate overseas health care in Indian hospitals for American patients in need of highly-complex medical procedures at costs dramatically lower than now available in the United States. Rajesh Rao, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at IndUShealth, commented, Gaining access to affordable health care is already a huge issue [...]