Guidelines, feedback can improve diabetes care. (Average [HBA.sub.1C] Now Down to 7.4%).
NEW YORK -- Systematic use of evidence-based guidelines, performance measures, and clinical feedback can substantially improve the quality of diabetes care, Dr. Clark T. Sawin said at a conference sponsored by the American Diabetes Association. Such an approach has yielded significant gains in recent years within the...

RIVERAING WINS COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION CONTRACT.
Riverain Medical, Dayton, Ohio, an industry leader and innovator in computer-aided detection (CAD) and diagnostic technologies, has received a Veterans Affairs contract for its OnGuard(TM) Chest X-ray CAD technology. Used in conjunction with the reading of standard digital chest X-rays, OnGuard quickly identifies solitary pulmonary nodules that may be...

MS activists hit the hill.
Last March more than 350 activists took the MS movement to Capitol Hill where they met with their senators and representatives. The visits took place during the Society's 2007 MS Public Policy Conference. People from coast to coast spoke with their lawmakers about current legislation--much of it involving MS...

New VA Health Care Options for Chicago Area.
CHICAGO, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) top doctor today recommended a series of significant changes in the way health care is delivered to Chicago, Wisconsin and upper-Michigan veterans. The changes are part of VA's health care planning process called CARES ("Capital Asset...

Buyer: More VA-DOD Sharing of Drug Costs Could Save Taxpayers More Than $300 Million Annually.
Cites GAO Recommendation that DOD Use VA's Mail Service on Drug Refills WASHINGTON, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The VA and Department of Defense will save American taxpayers over $300 million a year by increasing joint procurement of pharmaceuticals, VA Subcommittee on Oversight and...

Annette K. Taylor, M.S., Ph.D. of Kimball Genetics, Inc. Appointed to the Newly Formed Department of Veteran Affairs Genomic Medicine Program Advisory Committee.
DENVER, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimball Genetics, Inc. announces the appointment of Dr. Annette K. Taylor, its President and CEO, to the Department of Veterans Affairs Genomic Medicine Program Advisory Committee. The new committee will help the Department of Veteran Affairs establish policies for using genetic information to optimize...

LSU Offers Forum on Health-Care Effectiveness; National Experts Discuss the Louisiana Health-Care Landscape.
BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The LSU Health Care Services Division (LSU HCSD) will present "A Decade of Improvement & Excellence," its tenth annual forum on health-care effectiveness, January 16, 2007, from 9 AM to 5 PM, at the Holiday Inn Select Executive Center in Baton Rouge,...

New Website Focuses on Eye Care for Veterans.
American Academy of Ophthalmology Launches veteranseyecare.com WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- As Veteran's Day approaches, the nation's largest group of Eye M.D.s (ophthalmologists) launched a Web site today dedicated to providing quality eye care information and resources for U.S. veterans. Veteranseyecare.com, a service of the...

Remodeled clinic a keeper, staffers say.
Byline: JOE MOSLEY The Register-Guard This week's news of massive restructuring within the federal Department of Veterans' Affairs, including the likely closure of several little-used hospitals around the country, may have seemed a little off-key to users of the VA's outpatient clinic in Eugene. Especially...

An overview of patient safety climate in the VA.
The health care industry attempts to cure patients while avoiding problems and negative outcomes resulting from the processes of care. In many ways, health care strives to be a "high-reliability" enterprise. High-reliability organizations (HROs), which include the aviation and nuclear power industries, successfully perform highly complex and repetitive tasks...