Leader of the pack: Dog groomer turned UH pharmacy professor honored
...ly shops for 14 years when she decided to sell her business and change careers. She initially considered getting into the travel industry, but discovered pharmacy after it appeared at the top of a career assessment profile in which "travel agent" came in at the bottom. After working part time at a commun...Adoption of health information technology will lead to higher standard of quality care
...$8,500 per physician," Dr. Kirk pointed out. "The business case does not exist to make this kind of capital investment." Therefore, she noted, ACP strongly believes that to stimulate HIT adoption, reimbursement policies must be changed to support the investment in technology which should include sharing ...Study of US restaurants shows no healthier foods without healthier profits
...such products have not generated profits for their business and their competitors."...Pioneering study maps attention, memory and language links in the human brain
...2 years old are doing any good, and if we have any business exposing our children to drugs at such a very early age," he added. As Christensen collects more MRI data that show the connections among areas of the brain that are strongly engaged in language tasks, he plans to collaborate with computer modelin...Commercializing university research -- Hopping robots, liquid shoes, electricity from heat
...xperts and von Liebig Center staff. Technology and business advisors from the von Liebig Center will continue to work with all the applicants to develop commercialization strategies and, if possible, help them secure other types of funding. The nine funded projects are:Prabhakar Bandaru, professor of Materi...Study: Chain-owned nursing homes hurt by too much standardization
... introducing greater economies of scale and better business practices." The study, "Do corporate chains affect quality of care in nursing homes" The role of corporate standardization" appears in Health Care Management Review and is available on-line....Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2007
...the energy savings are good for improving the U.S. business climate. These high savings enable these industrie...gy costs can be rerouted to other aspects of doing business in a large industrial setting, Wright said. A number of these sites are already implementing energy ...Both alcohol and neighborhood characteristics can affect intimate partner violence
... now viewed as a large societal problem and is the business of the criminal-justice system, the treatment community, community advocates, and so forth. Furthermore," he added, "there are important public-policy implications for findings such as these; suggesting that a comprehensive approach to IPV would not...Researchers find deadly prescription drug effects 6 years before FDA
...the information to doctors. The old way of doing business was a large number of incomplete reports that took an average of seven years to find adverse reactions to drugs, Bennett said. We propose with our system we can cut that to between one to two years. Thats a six-year savings. For a billion dollar dru...Study: Who claims to be a pediatrician?
...ailable to handle patient care needs after regular business hours" The pediatrician's schedule needs to be a good fit for your family's schedule in order for the relationship to be a success, Freed says. 3. Ability to care for children with chronic diseases. Is the pediatrician experienced in caring for chi...Extra pay does not improve hospital performance
...id Kevin Schulman, M.D., professor of medicine and business administration at Duke and study co-author. However, we really need a robust research base to inform the design of the program and clearly we need to continuously monitor performance to ensure that we are achieving our clinical goals through these ef......ing, Georgia Institute of Technology will show how business concepts like supply chain and portfolio management can help general managers in a lecture, "Supply Chains, Investment Portfolios, and Roster Management." Operations research techniques are used successfully to determine investment portfolios and co...UD scientists invent novel hydrogels for repairing, regenerating human tissue
...e cells encapsulated in the gel can go about their business in restructuring the tissue, Schneider explained. UD's peptide-based hydrogels display several novel features. Not only are they cytocompatible, meaning that they are not toxic to the living cells they are enlisted to deliver, but some of the gels ...From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care
...expensive sensor platform about half the size of a business card. Developed at UF and licensed to Pervasa, a Gainesville-based UF spinoff company headed by Helal, the Atlas platform makes it easy to create a network of sensors and make their information available on a computer network. The advance is crucia...University hospitals wins multiple national IT awards for electronic patient data bank
...s are doing to leverage information technology for business advantage. The Physician Portal allows UH clinicians and select non-UH entities, such as long-term care facilities and federally qualified health clinics, to access comprehensive medical information on more than 700,000 patients, 24x7 from anywher...Happier hospitals means healthier patients
... each others work and pool their resources. The business of the NHS should be health, not just managing the...neral Management cannot manage without knowing the business it is in. It says the answer is not in structures but in a re-focusing of the organisations energy a...Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
...ontact with those who are ill, school and selected business closure, and public gathering cancellations. One compelling question emerges: can lessons from the 1918-1919 pandemic be applied to contemporary pandemic planning efforts to maximize public health benefit while minimizing the disruptive social conseq...