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NJ council of Children's hospital

05/18/2012

Member Hospitals
iMPak Health Announces NFC Enabled Cardiovascular Health and Wellness Application (dailyfinance.com) iMPak Health, LLC announced today the launch of their new product, RhythmTrak, a Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled cardiovascular mobile health and wellness application. RhythmTrak is being launched on the Android Platform for both smart phones and tablets and the company plans to have the application on the iOS platform by the end of the year.

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NJ Heart Transplant Specialist to Be Honored by Executive Women's Group (njspotlight.com) Dr. Margarita Camacho, a surgeon at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, did 52 heart transplants last year, and has performed more than 300 in the past 20 years, making her one of the leading heart transplant specialists in the nation.

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State Budget
Additional $120 million revenue shortfall announced (politickernj.com) Office of Legislative Services Budget Chief David Rosen today warned lawmakers that the state is facing an additional revenue shortfall of more than $120 million.

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New Jersey’s Children
Stop & Shop helping local children via promoting healthy eating (nj.com)

New Jersey Stop & Shops are half-way through their second annual Get Healthy Give Hope Campaign. This campaign is a great opportunity to eat healthy and raise funds for local children's cancer research. For the rest of May, the more produce you purchase at local Stop & Shops, the more money Stop & Shop will donate towards children's cancer research.

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Healthcare Exchanges
U.S. sets deadline for proposals on state healthcare exchanges (reuters.com) The Obama administration forged ahead with healthcare reforms on Wednesday, announcing a November 16 deadline for state governments to submit proposals showing how they intend to operate health insurance exchanges in 2014.

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Electronic Health Care Claims
AHA comments on proposed administrative simplification rule (ahanews.com) A proposed rule establishing unique identifiers for health plans and other entities should help facilitate appropriate routing of electronic health care claims, the AHA said in comments submitted today.

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CMS
AHA supports proposal easing supervision for outpatient therapeutic services (ahanews.com) The AHA today voiced support for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' preliminary decision to allow general supervision for 27 hospital outpatient therapeutic services.

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Congress urged to keep drug shortages provision in PDUFA (ahanews.com) A new ad by the AHA, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, and American Society of Clinical Oncology urges Congress to "keep the drug shortages provisions" in the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.

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