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WHO Stops Tracking H1N1 Cases
"In a move that caught many public health experts by surprise, the WHO quietly announced Thursday that it would stop tracking swine flu cases and deaths around the world," the New York Times reports. According to the newspaper, the announcement "perplexed some experts, and even baffled a WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl," who "earlier in the day ò€¦ had confirmed Argentina, with 137 swine flu deaths since June, had surpassed Mexico, where the epidemic began in February, as the country with second largest number of swine flu deaths." While the last WHO updated indicated nearly 95,000 people worldwide had been infected with H1N1, "[m]any epidemiologists have pointed out that, in reality, millions of people have had swine flu, usually in a mild form, so the numbers of laboratory-confirmed cases were actually meaningless" while tests "overwhelmed national laboratories," according to the New York Times (McNeil, 7/16).
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(DH) Contract Awarded To Develop Patient Reported Outcome Measures, UK
A new contract that will help improve the use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), which support the NHS to collect patient feedback on the success of their operations, was today awarded to the Royal College of Surgeons and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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Senators Squabbling Over Health Bills
"For a brief moment Thursday, Senate Democrats could celebrate. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus suggested for the first time publicly he was hoping for a bipartisan deal to pay for health care reform by the end of the day. The good feelings didn"t last long," Politico reports. "Within hours, Baucus (D-Mont.) said the talks were suspended until next week - defying President Barack Obama"s request to produce an agreement by the weekend and throwing into doubt any hopes of meeting the president"s August deadline to pass a Senate bill." And Baucus "had to call the White House and apologize for saying earlier in the day that Obama"s resistance to taxing employer health benefits "is not helping us" get a bill."
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TeraMedica Delivers Enterprise Imaging Interchange Technology Contributing To Meaningful Use Of EMRs To Healthcare Facilities With Sun Microsystems

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology announced, along with partner, Sun Microsystems, that the two companies will be offering a pre-configured solution for viewing and managing clinical images originating from different modalities and providers to bring secure, consistent image sharing to point-of-care. "The Evercore® Enterprise Imaging Interchange combines Sun"s Master Patient Index and Enterprise Services Bus with the Evercore - UnivisionTM. and SmartstoreTM modules. This TeraMedica / Sun solution captures and aggregates digital images from multiple diagnostic s, assembling them into a logical single patient view, and delivering the images directly to the caregiver through the Evercore viewer," said Jim Prekop, CEO of TeraMedica. The solution is built with the Sun JavaTM Composite Application Platform Suite, the leading integration and composite application development platform, and the TeraMedica Evercore Clinical Enterprise Suite, the leading application in integration, management and distribution of patient-centric clinical content in the healthcare domain. "Sun"s software infrastructure technology, including GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS), and our identity management portfolio of products helps healthcare organizations around the world securely exchange information, manage patient identities, and consolidate disparate health records into "single patient views." We look forward to working with TeraMedica and demonstrating our interoperability capabilities." said Wayne Owens, Director of Sun"s Global Healthcare Software Practice. TeraMedica Healthcare Technology


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