While the government claims to provide pricing for drugs and procedures, those listings only highlight what Medicare and Medicaid are willing to reimburse, not what those services actually cost. Hospitals, doctors and insurance companies provide patients with an itemized bill for care – but only AFTER the fact. The Healthcare Transparency Index, issued today by change:healthcare, is the first to provide healthcare consumers with ongoing trends data about actual healthcare costs – offering insight into critical opportunities for cost savings.
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Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), the global leader in the science of heart valves and haemodynamic monitoring, announced the results of a pivotal clinical study of high-risk surgical patients with severe aortic stenosis treated in Cohort A of The PARTNER Trial. These data demonstrate that the study achieved its primary endpoint at one year, concluding that survival of patients treated with the Edwards SAPIEN transcatheter aortic valve was equivalent to those treated with surgical aortic valve replacement. The data were presented at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 60th Annual Scientific Session & Expo in New Orleans, LA, USA.
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Based on its recent analysis of the medical imaging market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Siemens Healthcare with the 2011 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation. Siemens Healthcare’s innovative Biograph mMR is the first scanner capable of simultaneously acquiring whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data.
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Many parents consider themselves tech experts, especially when it comes to their phones. In fact, according to the “LG Text Ed Survey,” 75 percent of parents consider themselves “texters” and 86 percent of those texters have used the medium to communicate with their teens. Yet, the survey also found that many parents engage in questionable texting behaviors and are unaware of their teen’s mobile phone misuse. In this video segment, renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy offers safe texting tips, advice on how to communicate with your kids in the age of technology, and reveals surprising survey data.
New data revealed that nearly 100 percent (99%) of 200 U.S. primary care physicians surveyed agree that heart disease and stroke are the number one cause of death and disability among type 2 diabetes patients; however, almost 40 percent (36%) of these physicians underestimate the number of patients who die from cardiovascular disease. Furthermore, while people with diabetes are two to four times more likely to have heart disease than people without diabetes, the survey, conducted by Harris Interactive and supported by Merck, found only one out of five (21%) patients (n=664) listed heart attack or heart failure as their biggest worry regarding diabetes complications, and even fewer patients (7%) listed stroke.
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You meet lots of friendly, out-going people at festivals, but what if they stole you credit card and started using it to buy beer, food and generally used it as their own? Data Snatchers do it every day on the internet. Watch a never seen before trick from street magician Dynamo…
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The Audi Group once again set records for deliveries, revenue and key earnings data in the fiscal year 2011. The brand with the four rings sold more than 1.3 million cars in the past year, at the same time increasing revenue to €44.1 billion. Operating profit for the Audi Group rose to over €5.3 billion in the past fiscal year. The operating return on sales climbed from 9.4 to 12.1 percent.
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Austin-based Tocquigny, an award-winning, nationally recognized interactive agency, was named a finalist for a 2011 SXSW Interactive Award in the Kiosk/Installation category for projects that live outside the standard browser experience.
Tocquigny is being honored for its work on Teradata Partners “At the Moment” Video Wall, a groundbreaking multi-platform video installation project developed for the 2010 Teradata PARTNERS Conference in San Diego. Tocquigny designed At the Moment as a real-time data visualization platform to exemplify The Socialization of Data (www.socializationofdata.com), a forward-thinking methodology Teradata uses to demonstrate the power of fusing non-traditional business data with traditional data. To illustrate this concept, Tocquigny created a video wall comprised of 52 LED monitors and three 77
The pathway to better health for teenage girls starts with the first meal of the day, and when they make a “good-for-me” choice their odds of having a healthier body weight and lower cholesterol improve. These are the latest peer-reviewed findings summarized in Public Health Nutrition. This analysis of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study (NGHS) data was funded in part by the General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition. The NGHS followed the diets of 2,379 girls who, at the beginning of the study, were between the ages of nine and 10 from 1987 to 1997; 51 percent, or 1,213, were African American girls and 1,166 were Caucasian girls who lived in Berkley, CA, Cincinnati, OH and Washington, D.C.
The pathway to better health for teenage girls starts with the first meal of the day, and when they make a “good-for-me” choice their odds of having a healthier body weight and lower cholesterol improve. These are the latest peer-reviewed findings summarized in Public Health Nutrition. This analysis of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study (NGHS) data was funded in part by the General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition. The NGHS followed the diets of 2,379 girls who, at the beginning of the study, were between the ages of nine and 10 from 1987 to 1997; 51 percent, or 1,213, were African American girls and 1,166 were Caucasian girls who lived in Berkley, CA, Cincinnati, OH and Washington, D.C.
For the tenth consecutive year, silver has ranked as the most popular vehicle color in the world according to data from PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG), the world’s leading manufacturer of transportation coatings. In fact, silver’s popularity is the highest its been since 1990 when PPG began recording its data.
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