Medicelles

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Regional Medical Center Anniston has selected its ProVation® MD software for Cardiology procedure documentation and coding. The Anniston, AL-based hospital will use the software to document and code cases at its three cardiac catheterization labs.

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Robert Wachter, M.D., ( bio ), editor of AHRQ WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality), interviewed AHCJ President Charles Ornstein , of ProPublica, for a recent issue ( get the audio version here ). Their conversation began as a general discussion of health journalism, then zeroed in on hospital errors and the Pulitzer Prize-winning series on King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles that Ornstein did with Tracy Weber when both were at the LA Times . The whole thing is worth a read. In this ex

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Some House Democrats opposed to abortion are threatening to thwart health care reform legislation if it does not clearly steer away from funding abortions. Congress Daily reports: “With Republicans likely to try to use the emotional issue to draw support and money for 2010 contests, Democrats tried to make the bill ‘abortion neutral’ — maintaining existing federal policy without further restricting abortion rights.

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Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services, today announced the immediate availability of Elysium Image Exchange, a state-of-the-art technology integrated with Axolotl’s Elysium® Exchange suite of products. Powered by Axolotl’s partner eHealth Global Technologies, Inc. (eHGT), Elysium Image Exchange enables the electronic sharing of diagnostic quality medical images between health care providers participating in an HIE.

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Emerging Solutions in Pain released its own iPhone application called ESP Mobile, which is designed for health care professions involved in pain management or addiction medicine. The app provides clinicians with robust multimedia medical information, allowing them [clinicians] to “stay current with the latest information and educational programs in pain management.” Here’s what’s included in the app: Up-to-date news, journal summaries, clinical trial results and other relevant information

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As Americans mark breast cancer awareness month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report, Health Insurance Reform and Breast Cancer: Making the Health Care System Work for Women.

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The latest kerfuffle on the Health Care bill is that the Obama church has leashed the Am Cath types against the Catholic bishops. For those of you who are not Catholic, much of the church bureaucracy is full of those who claim Vatican II to justify changing the Catholic church into a Episcopalian wanna be church. Luckily,

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While the Unites States Congress is busy debating the high costs of health care reform, TreatmentReport.com aims to promote health system efficiency by making treatment information structured and transparent. On the site, people with health conditions can review and share treatment experiences with those researching their options.

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The National Council on Disability (NCD) will hear presentations and discuss employment, health care, and restraint and seclusion issues affecting people with disabilities during its quarterly meeting at the Holiday Inn Express, 920 Broadway, Nashville, TN, which begins at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, October 26, 2009, and concludes at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

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Associated Press: Democratic leaders in Congress scrambled Friday to round up votes for allowing the government to sell health insurance in competition with private industry as they struggled to finalize a health care bill that meets President Barack Obama’s goals.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spent Friday “calling and talking with wavering Democrats to test support for different versions of the plan.”

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