Citrix has announced the immediate availability of  Citrix Receiver for iPhone.
So why is the iPhone Citrix app a big deal for hospitals?  Citrix is used at our  Hospitals to provide a secure method for accessing computer information.  Most often people see it or use when they are trying to access information on the hospital’s intranet.  [...]

MEMORANDUM
To: PSPH Medical Staff PSPH Nursing Staff PSPH Pharmacy Staff
From: Priyesh Patel, Pharm.D, M.B.A. Pharmacy Director
Date: May 12, 2009
RE: NATIONAL BACKORDER OF MEDICATIONS UPDATE
The pharmacy department has been advised that the following medications are unavailable from the manufacturer. Assistance in selecting an alternative agent is available from a pharmacist [...]

Methadone for Pain Management
Dr. Ross Vogelgesang
Saturday February 21, 2009
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Pain Management in the Elderly
Gregg VandeKieft, MD
Saturday February 21, 2009
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The Risks of Acetaminophen Combination Products and Strategies to Improve Patient Safety
Megan Pettibone, PharmD
Saturday February 21, 2009
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Prescription and Pill Popping:Ethical Dilemmas
Alex Cahana MD, DPhil, DAAPM, FIPP
Saturday February [...]

Medicare, with little public debate,  has expanded its reimbursement for unapproved uses of cancer drugs, the New York Times reports this morning.
The latest cancer drugs can cost tens of thousands of dollars per patient. Medicare spends more than $3 billion a year on cancer drugs, and private insurers, who pay for most of the rest [...]

HealthDay- President Barack Obama vowed during his campaign to expand access to health insurance and reform health care. Early indications now suggest that, despite an ailing economy — or perhaps because of it — he is resolved to keep his promise.
In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony, the 44th president began setting the [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it was adding a label warning on heightened suicide risk for users of antiepileptic drugs.
The move, which follows the advice last summer of an FDA advisory panel, stops short of slapping the strongest “black box” warning on this class of drugs, which includes widely used medications [...]

The first new gout drug in 40 years should be approved for sale in the United States, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended Monday.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008; 10:00 a.m., EC Conference Room
“Clostridium difficile Prevalence Research Highlights”
William R. Jarvis, MD, President, Jason and Jarvis Associates

FROM: Sister Susanne Hartung, Chief Mission Integration Officer
As many of you have probably heard on the news already, Initiative 1000 was passed by Washington voters yesterday. This does not have an immediate impact on us as the new law does not take effect until 120 days after the election or March 4, 2009. In addition, [...]

JAMA
10/22/2008:JAMA patient page. Quality of care. JAMA
10/22/2008:Health of the nation 2008 and beyond. JAMA
10/22/2008:Prescription drugs, products liability, and preemption of tort litigation. JAMA
10/22/2008:Selling a medical school’s name: ethical and practical dilemmas. JAMA
10/22/2008:Comparison of the US and Canadian health care systems: a tale of 2 Mount Sinai’s. JAMA
New England journal of medicine