Four medical specialties at UNC Hospitals ranked by U.S. News & World Report

September 3, 2010
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Four medical specialties at UNC Hospitals ranked by U.S. News & World Report

Dr. William L. Roper, MD, MPH, CEO of the UNC Health Care System, offers thanks and congratulations to the faculty and staff at UNC Hospitals for ranking in four specialties in U.S. News & World Report's 2010-11 Best Hospitals issue.

The UNC Hospitals specialties, and their top-50 rankings, are:

* Cancer, 47
* Ear, Nose, & Throat, 21
* Gastroenterology, 27
* Gynecology, 27

Visit http://www.unchealthcare.org/site/newsroom/news/2010/July/us-news-best-hospitals to view the full announcement from UNC Health Care. The full U.S. News & World Report rankings are available online at http://www.usnews.com./besthospitals.

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Brent Houston

September 3, 2010
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Brent Houston

Brent's mother died of colon cancer two years ago. A few years prior to her diagnosis, she skipped a routine colonoscopy because her insurance did not cover it and she could not afford it. The Affordable Care Act requires your insurance company to cover preventative care.

Please join or sponsor our team in the Chicago AIDS Foundation Run & Walk. Go to cbhconline.org/runwalkroll to get to our team page on the CAF site.

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Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital Television Ad

September 3, 2010
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Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital Television Ad

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HIT Stimulus Update, Vol. 5: State Health Information Exchanges & Regional IT Extension Centers

September 3, 2010
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HIT Stimulus Update, Vol. 5: State Health Information Exchanges & Regional IT Extension Centers

Physicians should get involved in local state efforts as local and regional health information exchanges are formed in the interest of becoming a meaningful user of health information technology with regard to interoperability. They can also work with regional health IT extension centers to gain further understanding of meaningful use and information about certified products. Physicians now need to be moving ahead aggressively with their certified health information technology decisions.

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HIT Stimulus Update, Vol. 5: State Health Information Exchanges & Regional IT Extension Centers

September 3, 2010
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HIT Stimulus Update, Vol. 5: State Health Information Exchanges & Regional IT Extension Centers

Physicians should get involved in local state efforts as local and regional health information exchanges are formed in the interest of becoming a meaningful user of health information technology with regard to interoperability. They can also work with regional health IT extension centers to gain further understanding of meaningful use and information about certified products. Physicians now need to be moving ahead aggressively with their certified health information technology decisions.

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Four medical specialties at UNC Hospitals ranked by U.S. News & World Report

September 2, 2010
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Four medical specialties at UNC Hospitals ranked by U.S. News & World Report

Dr. William L. Roper, MD, MPH, CEO of the UNC Health Care System, offers thanks and congratulations to the faculty and staff at UNC Hospitals for ranking in four specialties in U.S. News & World Report's 2010-11 Best Hospitals issue.

The UNC Hospitals specialties, and their top-50 rankings, are:

* Cancer, 47
* Ear, Nose, & Throat, 21
* Gastroenterology, 27
* Gynecology, 27

Visit http://www.unchealthcare.org/site/newsroom/news/2010/July/us-news-best-hospitals to view the full announcement from UNC Health Care. The full U.S. News & World Report rankings are available online at http://www.usnews.com./besthospitals.

Read the full article →

HIT Stimulus Update, Vol. 5: State Health Information Exchanges & Regional IT Extension Centers

September 2, 2010
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HIT Stimulus Update, Vol. 5: State Health Information Exchanges & Regional IT Extension Centers

Physicians should get involved in local state efforts as local and regional health information exchanges are formed in the interest of becoming a meaningful user of health information technology with regard to interoperability. They can also work with regional health IT extension centers to gain further understanding of meaningful use and information about certified products. Physicians now need to be moving ahead aggressively with their certified health information technology decisions.

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3-D Electrical Mapping of the Heart

September 2, 2010
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3-D Electrical Mapping of the Heart

3-D electrical map of the heart allows Sentara Heart cardiac electrophysiologists to see very clearly where the source of an irregular heart beat, or arrhythmia, is located. Physicians can use these mapped images when they perform procedures such as a cardiac ablation to treat atrial fibrillation, the most common type of arrhythmia. The 3-D maps of the heart are created when the physician carefully guides a sensitive catheter through the blood vessels until it is inside the heart. The catheter senses electrical activity and maps it out on a computer model of the hearts chambers. The image is color coded to show different regions of the heart and other electrical activity. For more information about irregular heart beat or atrial fibrillation, visit www.sentara.com/shac.

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Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital Television Ad

September 2, 2010
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Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital Television Ad

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Physical Therapy: Helps Those Who Have Experienced Serious Accidents

September 2, 2010

To recover from different complications that may arise as a result, physical therapy helps people who have gone through serious accidents. An example of an accident that can drive someone to need physical therapy is a car accident. There are times when people get involved in these situations, they have this thinking that they are [...]

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