By Kelly A. Briganti, Editorial Director, G2 Intelligence
This week, on July 30, Medicare and Medicaid celebrate a 50th birthday. On that date in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation establishing those federal health insurance programs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report that there are currently 55 million Americans benefitting from Medicare and that "in any given month" over 70 million benefit from…
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By Lori Solomon, Editor, Diagnostic Testing & Emerging Technologies
Leveraging clinical data from a health information exchange (HIE) can significantly reduce the number of duplicate laboratory tests and radiology assessments performed in the emergency room, according to a pilot study published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. In this study, the use of scribes (clinical liaisons) ensured efficient flow of HIE data to the treating clinicians, but…
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By Ron Shinkman, Editor, Laboratory Industry Report
Magellan Diagnostics has received 510(k) regulatory approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market a new point-of-care test that would be used to test lead levels in blood.
The test, known as LeadCare Plus, is a point-of-care version of a test the Massachusetts-based Magellan has marketed in other guises for the past…
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