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Nanotechnology and Health Risks Facts Sheet Published by The Health & Environment Alliance

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Quest Diagnostics Signs Onto Google Health EHR

Patients who want to access their lab test results may soon be able to simply Google them. Quest Diagnostics (Madison, N.J.) has announced that it will collaborate with the Internet giant on Google Health, a pilot electronic health record (EHR) system that will allow users to manage their health information online. Google Health was launched last month at the Health Information Management Systems Society trade show. In addition to Quest, Google Health’s future partners include Aetna, Wal-Mart, the University of California at San Francisco, the American Medical Association, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Privacy and Public Health at Risk: Public Health Confidentiality in the Digital Age

Public health agencies increasingly use electronic means to acquire, use, maintain, and store personal health information. Electronic data formats can improve performance of core public health functions, but potentially threaten privacy because they can be easily duplicated and transmitted to unauthorized people. Although such security breaches do occur, electronic data can be better secured than paper records, because authentication, authorization, auditing, and accountability can be facilitated. Public health professionals should collaborate with law and information technology colleagues to assess possible threats, implement updated policies, train staff, and develop preventive engineering measures to protect information.

Alliance Health Launches Online Health Network to Give Consumers an Improved Experience through Social Communities and Personalized Services

Alliance Health Launches Online Health Network to Give Consumers an Improved Experience through Social Communities and Personalized Services

National health records network to hook up with Google, Microsoft

The Office of the Coordinator of Health Information Technology plans to integrate a national network of electronic health records with healthcare databases launched by Google and Microsoft. The Office also plans to expand its Nationwide Health Information Network to include electronic health records stored in networks operated by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, the Indian Health Service, and integrated healthcare systems that span numerous communities.

Developing a Canadian Economic Case for Financing the Social Determinants of Health

Do investments in the social determinants of health (such as early childhood development, educational opportunities, the quality of jobs, safe communities, family income) have economic consequences? If so, what particular investments have the strongest relationships with economic outcomes? In April 2007, CPRN, on behalf of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), convened a roundtable of national and international experts to explore the economic case for financing the social determinants of health, building on the 2006 CPRN paper Economic Arguments for Action on the Social Determinants of Health, by David Hay. In this report, Developing a Canadian Economic Case for Financing the Social Determinants of Health, David Hay provides a synopsis of the available research and the roundtable discussion.

Companies fail to apprise investors of potential nanotechnology risks

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Following just two days after we wrote about the food industry's deafening silence on their nanotechnology research and development (Food nanotechnology - how the industry is blowing it), the Investor Environmental Health Network today released a report that demonstrates that sectors affected by product toxicity risks are doing a poor job of informing shareholders of market risks they face due to toxic chemicals in their products. The report specifically addresses the situation for companies dealing with nanomaterials by noting that manufacturers are not disclosing the evidence of health risks of nanotechnology products, nor the lack of adequate product testing prior to their sales.

Quest Partners With Google to Develop Portable PHR

The nation’s lab testing leader has joined forces with the country’s Internet search giant to provide consumers with secure online access to diagnostic test results through Google Health, a Web-based personal health record (PHR) pilot currently in development. Google Health appears similar to two other online PHR initiatives being developed by IT leaders: Microsoft’s HealthVault and Revolution Health. Founded by America Online co-founder Steve Case, Revolution Health operates a consumer health information Web site that allows consumers to create and manage an online PHR.

Health Net Swings To 1st Quarter Loss OF $35.7M On Legal, Operations Chgs

swung to a first-quarter net loss of $35.7 million, or 33 cents a share, from a profit of $88.6 million, or 77 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding legal and operation strategy-related charges of $53.8 million, Health Net posted non-GAAP income of 16 cents. The Woodland Hills, Calif., managed health care provider said revenue rose to $3.84 billion from $3.43 billion. On average, analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected per-share earnings of 62 cents on revenue of $3.85 billion. Health Net expects second-quarter earnings of 48 cents to 61 cents a share or 77 cents to 79 cents a non-GAAP share excluding strategy-related charges. Health Net lowered its projections for 2008 earnings to $2.47 to $2.65 a share or $3.45 to $3.55 a share on a non-GAAP basis, from previous expectations of $4.

5th Annual World Health Care Congress April 21-23, Washington, D.C.

The World Health Care Congress is the premier forum for health care executives to explore a myriad of emerging issues and to network with key leaders. The 2008 Congress will include senior executives and government officials from the nation's largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and government.

National health records network to hook up with Google, Microsoft

The federal office in charge of creating a national network of electronic health records plans to integrate the system with the health care databases that Google and Microsoft launched last year, on which individuals can store their health records, a top official with the Health and Human Services Department said.

Profs to study nano tech, health

Researchers at the UI Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute have been given a $1.2 million research grant to study the toxicity of inhaled nanomaterials. The grant, which was awarded by the National Institutes of Health, will be used to explore the dangers these man-made microscopic materials pose to human health, especially to the workers who manufacture them. Nanomaterials are small structures that can range between 1 and 100 nanometers -a nanometer is a billionth of a meter. These materials can be found in every-day materials such as cosmetics, lotions, and rain-repellent products. "We want to determine a relationship between nanoparticle properties and health," said UI Professor Vicki Grassian, the director of the UI Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute.

National study examines health risks of coarse particle pollution

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have conducted the largest nationwide study on the acute health effects of coarse particle pollution. Coarse particles are airborne pollutants that fall between 2.5 and 10 microns in diameter. These particles are larger than fine particles (less than 2.5 microns) and are produced by processes such as mechanical grinding, windblown dust and agriculture. These particles are of interest from both public health and regulatory perspectives.

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Microsoft Health vs.Google Health

During a recent health-tech conference in San Diego, dozens of companies presented online products designed to make U.S. healthcare smarter, stronger and better looking. The products, most notably entries by Google and Microsoft, have the industry energized, focused and at least a little bit frightened. This Washington Post article examines where Microsoft's and Google's personal health record programs are now and where they may be headed.

Open Health Tools Forges Ahead to Bring Open Source to Health IT

An international panel of software experts has outlined the next steps for the Open Health Tools initiative, according to iHealthBeat. Government agencies and corporate representatives — including software providers, health care companies, insurance companies and standards bodies — from the U.S., the UK, Australia and Canada are involved in the project.

Gen Re Expands Presence in China With Partnership With VHS

Valurise Health Solutions ("VHS"), the pioneer in health management services in China, and Cologne Reinsurance Company ("Gen Re"), one of the largest international reinsurers, today announced a partnership between VHS and Gen Re to jointly expand Chronic disease prevention and health management initiatives in China insurance industry and to provide support to insurers in domains of health insurance products development and health insurance risk management in China.

OECD to Host Forum for Addressing Nanotechnology Innovation, Applications, Environment, Health and Safety

OECD to Host Forum for Addressing Nanotechnology Innovation, Applications, Environment, Health and Safety

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