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Tarrytown, NY- OmniMD, one of the leading healthcare information technology companies, which provides Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PMS) and other Healthcare IT products and services to the providers and clinics across the nation, has announced today that Walker Family Medicine (WFM) located in Willcox, Arizona has adopted the companys EMR and PMS solution in order to improve the quality at point of care. WFM decided to implement an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system...

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The Swine flu death toll in India has risen to 20 in two weeks. The disease is especially partial to young kids, girls and elderly persons with co-existing chronic disease. Many of the victims are either foreign residents or tourists, which points to another easily demarcated section of population. Mark IV Medical communications is a Coimbatore based multimedia and medical animation company with offices in USA and Germany. Most of the creative staff at Mark...

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A General Hospital in Goregaon east Mumbai Requires RMO for Night Duty.

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"What would happen if patients could visit a doctor at the touch of a button, no waiting, without leaving their home or workplace? Starting this fall, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota hopes to find out. The insurance company plans to offer its 10,000 employees and dependents the chance to use a 'virtual clinic,' an Internet site that can connect them with a doctor for a live 10-minute consultation for a flat fee."This is...

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The Diagnostics and Statistical Manual, the Shrink's bible, has been around for over 50 years, and now possibly contains nearly 300 mental disorders.  As a dictionary of suspected mental illnesses, many redefined diagnoses are added to this manual with each edition. On occasion, a mental disorder is deleted from the DSM, such as homosexuality in the early 1970s.  Its purpose, this manual, is to assist mental health professionals to diagnose and classify mental disorders.  ...

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Novartis, retailers lock horns over direct sales 10 Apr, 2009, 0003 hrs IST ,  Khomba Singh ,  ET Bureau NEW DELHI: An open battle has erupted between drug retailers in Mumbai and Novartis, a Swiss company, and its subsidiary Sandoz. Over 7,000 retailers and wholesalers have boycotted all the 198 medicines of the two companies, after the drugmakers refused to stop selling some of their high-margin medicines directly to consumers. Retailers say the two companies...

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The job of a good doctor is to reassure patients that they are fine. Medical testing can be used intelligently to confirm that all is well. Unfortunately, many doctors today use ( misuse ?) tests to create anxiety in patients.Patients are emotionally vulnerable and they hang onto every word their doctor says. Even a casual statement - or expression - is analysed and interpreted( misinterpreted ? ) in a hundred different ways.Since patients now tend...

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Over 100 years ago, a Russian histologist suggested stem cells be applied for scientific research.  They are the human body’s equivalent of a generator, as they can renew, regenerate, and replicate under the right conditions.  The apex of cellular therapy and regenerative/reparative medicine has been reborn after an 8 year moratorium that basically halted federal funding for stem cell research with most states in the U.S.  Now the NIH can now award grants to scientists...

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I was wondering why more hospitals don't have patient education libraries and why more doctors don't prescribe Information Therapy. After all, this is such a simple, inexpensive way of keeping patients happy; reducing medical costs; and improving patient inflow. I think I have finally figured out the reason after talking to the administrator of a leading hospital in India today.He said, quite candidly, that " well-informed patients can be a pain in the neck "...

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