Latest healthcare sector Stories
NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenhill & Co., Inc (NYSE: GHL), a leading independent investment bank, announced today that Rupert Hill will join the Firm as a Managing Director based in London to enhance its focus on the healthcare sector. Mr. Hill has 17 years of investment banking experience, spending 14 of these focused on the healthcare sector. Mr. Hill was most recently with Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was Head of Healthcare for EMEA and Asia Pacific....
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report found that more than 21,820 healthcare and related jobs could be lost in New Jersey by 2021 as a result of a 2 percent cut in Medicare spending mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011. Nationally, more than 766,000 jobs would be lost, according to the report released today by the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association at a press conference in Washington,...
DALLAS, August 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market research report "World Sensors Market in Healthcare Applications (2012-2017), Global Forecast & Analysis - Segmentation by Type of Sensor (Temperature, Pressure, Chemical, Flow, Level, Position, Image and Biosensors), Monitoring, Therapeutic, Diagnostic, Drug Discovery & Delivery Applications, Geographical & Country-wise Markets" published by MarketsandMarkets (http://www.marketsandmarkets.com), the...
LONDON, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Various initiatives by governments of European countries are driving the adoption of IT systems in the healthcare sector. Increasing awareness about healthcare IT across the Middle East and other regions will fuel greater adoption. In Germany, the introduction of health smart cards for every citizen has had an impact on the use of electronic patient records. There are signs of an increase in the need of hospitals to manage patient-related...
While attending the Schliersee Conference recently, the PDF Association founded the “PDF/A in Health Care” Special Interest Group (SIG). During the leading healthcare conference, seven member firms took part in the founding meeting. The SIG’s goal is to promote the subject of PDF/A in the healthcare sector. Its first planned actions are the creation of a white paper on “PDF/A in Health Care” and attendance at this year’s ConHIT healthcare IT industry event. Berlin, Germany...
NEW YORK, April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Collins Stewart LLC is pleased to announce the formation of a US healthcare investment banking alliance with Beal Advisors and Liberty Tree Advisors. The purpose of this alliance is to target, originate and execute public and private equity transactions in the healthcare sector. Both Beal Advisors and Liberty Tree Advisors are US-based boutique healthcare advisory firms. Georgia Erbez - founder of Beal Advisors (www.bealadvisors.com) - has previously...
NEWTON, Mass., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- MedNetworks, Inc. today launched as a new venture based on the social network analytics research of professor Nicholas Christakis of Harvard University. Christakis is a physician and social scientist internationally renowned for his groundbreaking research on social factors influencing health. MedNetworks has an exclusive license from Harvard University to use the Christakis technology in the healthcare sector. MedNetworks also announced today that it...
Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance but much remains to be done to address the various issues raised by healthcare consumers regarding privacy and security and the providers' perspective of regulatory compliance.Writing in the International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, Ajit Appari and Eric Johnson of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, explain that the adoption of digital patient records, increased...
MILWAUKEE, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- People hoping to observe energy efficiency leadership in action may want to take a trip to their local healthcare facility. According to new research from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), healthcare organizations are more likely to invest in energy efficiency for their facilities compared to other industry sectors across North America. In March 2010, Johnson Controls, in conjunction with ASHE and the...
WASHINGTON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Curtis Rooney, President of the Health Industry Group Purchasing Association (HIGPA), today issued the following statement on the adoption of aggressive new healthcare transparency and oversight measures by the Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative (HGPII). The new initiatives were developed earlier this year with input from leading ethicists and Congressional staff at the fifth annual HGPII Best Practices Forum in Washington, D.C., and...
