BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, L.P., a corporate venture fund that is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and Sandbox Industries announced today a $5-million investment in Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in master data management (MDM) solutions for health information exchange.
BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners is a newly formed $116-million fund [...]

Haven Hospice, a leading not-for-profit hospice and palliative care organization that serves patients and families across 18 north Florida counties, announced a leadership restructuring today, including the appointment of a President and five new Vice Presidents.
Tim Bowen, who previously served as Haven Hospice’s Executive Director, has been named the organization’s President, effective immediately. Bowen will [...]

Physicians Healthcare Management Group, Inc., a developer of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in partnership with physicians, today released the following letter to its shareholders:
Dear Phyhealth Shareholder:
Since our last communication in June 2008, much has happened. I want to update you on the Company’s progress on two of Phyhealth’s 2008 key objectives.
First is the Company’s application [...]

US Oncology Holdings, Inc. and its operating subsidiary, US Oncology, Inc., will announce 2008 third quarter financial results on Thursday, November 6, 2008.
A conference call and simultaneous webcast has been scheduled at 11:00 a.m., EST, for the company’s bondholders following the distribution of the news release. In this call, representatives of US Oncology’s management team [...]

Pediatric nurses provide preventative and acute care in all settings to children and adolescents. Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (PNPs) perform physical exams, diagnose illness and injury, and provide education and support to patients’ families. Working with pediatricians and other health care providers, pediatric nurses and nurse practitioners are compassionate professionals who dedicate their careers to the [...]

A new research report released today by Healthsense and NewCourtland Elder Services concludes that seniors who rely on remote monitoring technology to help them remain secure and independent adapt well to living with the technology and do not see it as intrusive or impersonal.
Conducted by an independent research consulting firm at four locations within the [...]

After months of frustration and misdiagnoses — slipped disc, arthritis, depression, psychosomatic illness — the woman finally was freed from her debilitating backache. The cause of her pain?
Living in a cramped one-room apartment with her four children, the woman had been sleeping in a bathtub.
And who solved this medical mystery?
A nurse practitioner — someone who [...]

A new Bi-State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center, designed to help improve nursing environments in the Kansas City area, is being announced today by a group of partners and donors.
The center, to be at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing, has the goal of retaining good nurses who are frustrated by low staffing numbers, [...]

The Tennessee Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (TNAHSA) plans to honor Senator Diane Black with the Executive Leadership Award at their annual conference in Nashville on Tuesday, August 5. Black is being recognized for her long history of advocacy for Tennessee’s underprivileged, elderly and disabled, including her work with TNAHSA as sponsor [...]

U.S. Preventive Medicine (http://www.USPreventiveMedicine.com), the leader in disease prevention, announced today that the State of Arkansas Department of Human Services has extended its contract for the BirthWait® obstetrical and infant health management program for one year.
Under the BirthWait® program, which began in June 2007, U.S. Preventive Medicine, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, U.S. Care Management, provides [...]