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Coders and medical staff need to obtain valuable education and training to stay updated on the latest code changes. Rockville, MD (PRWEB) June 15, 2013 In today’s medical office, it is crucial for coders and office staff to stay updated on the latest code changes, new advances, industry news and more. To assist in providing valuable education and training, Contexo Media presents the Procedural Coding Changes Workshops. It is the preeminent workshop for hands-on practical application of...

Career Step will be exhibiting in booth 1643 at the 2013 National Institute of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) in Orlando, Florida, June 16-19 in addition to presenting a new white paper on avoiding the negative financial consequences of ICD-10 at the show. Provo, Utah (PRWEB) June 13, 2013 Career Step, a premier healthcare education company, will be exhibiting at the 2013 National Institute of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) in Orlando,...

Speakers to Reveal How the DebMed® Group Monitoring System (GMS(TM)) Ensures Patient Safety via Electronic Monitoring of the World Health Organization's Five Moments for Hand Hygiene CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DebMed®, creator of the world's first electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, today announced that executives from DebMed and Greenville, South Carolina-based...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Nova Southeastern University's Center for Consumer Health Informatics Research (CCHIR) has been designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a WHO Collaborating Center in Consumer Health Informatics. This represents the first such Collaborating Center designation by the WHO specific to consumer health informatics in the world. The CCHIR (pronounced see-ker, as in seeking knowledge and answers) is part of the Nova...

AVAC Calls for Accelerated Action to Get PrEP to Those Who Can Benefit From It NEW YORK, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Results from the Bangkok Tenofovir Study published online today in The Lancet provide additional evidence that daily oral tenofovir-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reduces HIV infection risk when taken consistently. The results from the study--the first conducted among people who inject drugs--are consistent with previous studies among men and women...

- Trial to Study the Innovative "Dissolving" Heart Device Compared to Abbott's Market-Leading Drug Eluting Stents in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease in Japan ABBOTT PARK, Ill., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced that it has initiated the ABSORB Japan randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the Absorb(TM) Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common form of heart disease.(1) The...

Leadership Team Appointed for the United Nations Special Envoy Office and MDG Health Alliance. Suprotik Basu to serve as CEO, David Alport to serve as SVP Communications New York, NY (PRWEB) June 07, 2013 Ray Chambers, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and for Malaria and the Chairman of the MDG Health Alliance – today announced two senior staff appointments. Suprotik Basu, who has served as Managing Director for...

The University of New England has announced the award of a two-year, $200,000 grant by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations in recognition of the University’s efforts to cultivate a caring interprofessional health work force. Portland, Maine (PRWEB) June 05, 2013 The University of New England has announced the award of a two-year, $200,000 grant by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations in recognition of the University’s efforts to cultivate a caring interprofessional health work force....

With World Environment Day approaching, AdrProVita exposes problems caused by EMF radiation. Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) June 06, 2013 Technological development in our world directly constantly effects society and the environment. With World Environment Day just around the corner AdrProVita.com invites everybody to celebrate the beauty of the world humans live in by increasing awareness about electromagnetic radiation protection. People may or may not be fully aware that electromagnetic...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Two updates from the World Health Organization (WHO) have surfaced this past week; one details a new case in an ongoing health crisis in the Middle East and another describes a separate virus recently discovered in Israel. MERS-CoV As the health threat continues to rise for infections from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), the WHO has issued its latest report describing a new laboratory-confirmed case in...