Verticaltalk Healthcare e-Newsletter Volume 3, No. 3, 2008
Ahhm - VeticalTalk Healthcare e-Newsletter

Correct Diagnoses

and

Informed Patients
News
Press Releases
Book Shelf
Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners
Author(s): Myung K Park
Cardiology Essentials
Author(s): Teresa Holler
eHealth Solutions for Healthcare Disparities
Author(s): Michael Christopher Gibbons
Handbook of Cardiac Electrophysiology
Author(s): Andrea Natale
Events
Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management
The Single Voice for the Asian Healthcare Industry
media pack
China Med - Beijing, 3-5 April, 2008
Business Case for Correct Diagnoses and Informed Consumers : A case study

Providing employees with education in wellness enables them to become better-informed consumers. This in turn helps caregivers provide better healthcare.

Jennifer Davis
Director, Office of Management and Budget and Chair
Employee Benefits Committee, Delaware, USA
  Research Insights
Professional Uncertainty and Disempowerment Responding to Ethnic Diversity in Health Care - A Qualitative Study
Interventions should help professionals acknowledge their uncertainty and its potential to create inertia in their practice. A shift away from a cultural expertise model towards a greater focus on each patient as an individual may help.
 
Apollo Hospitals Group to build a facility in Mauritius
Apollo Hospitals has tied up with the Mauritius-based British American Investment Company to set up Apollo Bramwell Hospital, a new facility, in Mauritius with an investment of US$ 70 million. The project will be completed by January, 2009.
India's Sneha Diagnostics plans 10 medical diagnostic centres
Sneha Diagnostics has unveiled plans to open 10 diagnostic centres in all major district centres across the state of Andhra Pradesh by the first quarter of 2009, with an investment of US$ 1.3 million
(Rs. 5 Crores).
 
 
UC Davis combines PET and MRI into one device
Scientists at the University of California, Davis have built the world’s first combined PET-MRI scanner. The combined scanner can provide accurate PET and MRI images at the same time.

Luminex launches xTAG™ Respiratory Viral Panel
Luminex Molecular Diagnostics, a division of Luminex Corporation, has launched xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel (RVP), an assay for the detection of multiple viral types and subtypes, including influenza, metapneumovirus and adenovirus.
 
 
Closing the seams - Developing an integrated approach to health system disaster preparedness
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Closing the seams examines the preparedness of healthcare systems, identifies gaps, and highlights emerging solutions and innovative best practices that can be leveraged to help providers and communities deliver healthcare in the face of the unknown.

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