Oracle’s business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world’s largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems.
With the establishment of the Oracle Company in Dubai, oracle applications have [...]

While traditional brick-and-mortar nursing schools turn away thousands of applicants they cannot accommodate, online schools are blitzing Ohio with radio and TV ads and billboards, and one company is honing a for-profit program to help meet the burgeoning demand for nurses.
In the late ’90s, hospital cutbacks under managed care led to fears of an [...]

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and The Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) are sponsoring the very first presidential forum of the 2008 election focused solely on health care. New Leadership on Health Care: A Presidential Forum will take place Saturday, March 24th at 9:30 a.m. in the Cox Pavilion at the University of [...]

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team will kick-start the process of healthcare reform with a series of meetings across the country, modeled on those his campaign held last summer.
“Providing quality affordable health care for all Americans is one of my top priorities for this country because our long-term fiscal prospects will have a hard time improving [...]

Struggling to find enough doctors, nurses and linguists for the war effort, the Pentagon will temporarily recruit foreigners who have been living in the United States on student and work visas, or with refugee or political asylum status.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorized the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps to recruit certain legal [...]

The authority for the practice of nursing is based upon a social contract that delineates professional rights and responsibilities as well as mechanisms for public accountability. In almost all countries, nursing practice is defined and governed by law, and entrance to the profession is regulated at national or state level.
Almost a third of registered aged [...]

For the seventh straight year, nurses are the winner in the Gallup Poll’s annual “honesty and professional ethics” survey. A stunning 84 percent of Americans rated nurses honesty and ethics standards as either “high” or “very high,” easily topping the survey.
Leaders of the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing [...]

Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) announces a new partnership with the University of South Florida (USF) to provide simulation training and education services for USF Health hospital partners and for local and national health professionals seeking continuing medical education. The MSC SimSuite Education Center is located at Tampa General Hospital, a major teaching affiliate of USF [...]

Mylan Inc. today announced that its subsidiary Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Abbreviated New Drug Application for Levetiracetam Tablets, 250 mg, 500 mg and 750 mg. Levetiracetam Tablets are the generic version of UCB Pharma’s Keppra®.
Robert J. Coury, Mylan’s Vice Chairman and CEO, [...]

The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) today announced that AmerisourceBergen has joined its Corporate Council, a forum for leading health care solutions providers to work alongside the Foundation, health care providers, hospital executives, and patients and their families — all with the single convergent goal of making patient care safer.
“We are excited to be a [...]