Modernizing Medicine Celebrates National Health IT Week September 16-20, 2013

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BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwired - Sep 17, 2013) - Modernizing Medicine, the creator of the Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), a cloud-based specialty-specific electronic medical record (EMR) system, is marking the important role health information technology plays in improving healthcare delivery in America by celebrating National Health Information Technology (NHIT) Week, September 16-20, 2013.

Health information technology improves the quality of healthcare delivery, increases patient safety, decreases medical errors and strengthens the interaction between patients and healthcare providers.

"We have seen our EMA technology help physicians practice medicine more effectively," said Daniel Cane, President and CEO of Modernizing Medicine. "We're harnessing the benefits of medical data to improve clinical outcomes and make medicine more evidence-based in the specialty and sub-specialty markets. Our participation in NHIT Week highlights our commitment to work with our partners and colleagues to better our healthcare system. In addition, we are thrilled that EMA Plastic Surgery and EMA Cosmetic Medical Director Dr. Tim Sayed represents Modernizing Medicine year-round on the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association Executive Committee."

For additional information about National Health IT Week, visit http://www.healthitweek.org/.

About Modernizing Medicine

Modernizing Medicine is transforming how healthcare information is created, consumed and utilized in order to increase efficiency and improve outcomes. Its product, Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), is a cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical record (EMR) system with a massive library of built-in medical content, designed to save physicians time. Available as a native iPad application or from any web-enabled Mac or PC, EMA adapts to each provider's unique style of practice and is designed to interface with hundreds of different practice management systems. Today, Modernizing Medicine provides specialty-specific offerings for the dermatology, ophthalmology, optometry, orthopedics and plastic and cosmetic surgery markets, and to more than 1,100 physician practices across the country. In 2013 Modernizing Medicine was listed on Forbes' annual ranking of America's Most Promising Companies.

About National Health Information Technology Week

Now in its eighth year, National Health IT Week is a collaborative forum assembling key healthcare constituents -- vendors, provider organizations, payers, pharmaceutical/biotech companies, government agencies, industry/professional associations, research foundations, and consumer protection groups -- working together to elevate national attention to the necessity of advancing health IT. Log onto http://www.healthitweek.org for more information.

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UM medical school to break ground on much-needed research space

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Winning a $1.6 million federal grant to buy a robotic system to store 1 million blood, urine and tissue samples was easy compared to finding space for it at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

The "monster" machine, to be known as the university's "bio bank," is 13 feet wide, 20 feet deep and 10 feet high, said Dr. Alan Shuldiner, associate dean for personalized medicine.

But free lab space is scarce on the school's West Baltimore campus.

Officials plan to put that shortage in the past with a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday, marking the commencement of construction of a $305 million, 429,000-square-foot biomedical research building. The structure would become the largest on the University of Maryland, Baltimore, campus and provide space for a research enterprise that officials say is bursting at the seams and difficult to coordinate across disciplines.

While the medical school's research funding from external grants and contracts grew 28 percent from fiscal years 2008 to 2011, lab space remained constant. By one estimate, the school is using less than a third of the space its research activity warrants, something officials said hurts its ability to attract faculty and pursue new research opportunities.

"The good news has been, we have been very fortunate over the past decade or more in having very rapid growth in our research programs," medical school Dean Dr. E. Albert Reece said. "The bad news is we have just fundamentally run out of space."

In October, crews will begin demolishing the former home of the university's School of Dentistry, at Baltimore and Pine streets, to make way for the new research building. The university hopes to open the 10-story facility in January 2018.

State money will cover all but $65 million of construction costs; the university plans to raise the remainder from private sources.

Plans for the building date back about a decade, when it started to become clear research space was filling up, said university President Jay Perman. Even in 2001 and 2002, during the planning of the school's newest research building that opened in 2003, it was clear it would be filled quickly, Perman said.

"Space is easily the most precious commodity in our environment, and something needed to give," Perman said. "It's a wonderfully enabling process to be able to get started with this long-envisioned building."

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Boys outperform girls for medical school

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Analysis showed the male applicants for medical school did slightly better in the Leaving Cert than female applicants in each of the years under consideration, and also outperformed them in the HPAT test. Photograph: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

Boys are outperforming girls academically in the quest for medical school places even though girls generally do better in the Leaving Certificate, according to a new study.

Male applicants for medical school outperform females in both the Leaving Cert and the HPAT exam which was introduced as an additional test for entry to medical school in 2009, the research by UCC scientists shows.

The study, published in the Irish Medical Journal, finds no evidence of a gender bias linked to the Health Professionals Admissions Test (HPAT), which has been criticised in some quarters for disadvantaging female candidates.

Medicine, once a male-dominated profession, has become increasingly feminised in recent years, with women now comprising a majority of medical students. However, since the introduction of HPAT, a multiple-choice test of reasoning and problem-solving skills, the proportion of male entrants to medical schools has increased again. The test counts for about one-third of the points for entry, with the Leaving Cert counting for the rest.

Gender differencesThe UCC team looked at the performance of all applicants for medicine in the years 2009-2011 according to gender. Women accounted for the majority of applications, and the majority of eligible applications once the matriculation requirement and a requirement for a minimum of 480 Leaving Cert points were fulfilled.

The analysis showed the male applicants for medical school did slightly better in the Leaving Cert than female applicants in each of the years under consideration, and also outperformed them in the HPAT test.

Surprise resultThis finding surprised us as it is known that females generally outperform males in such tests and previous female dominance in medical school was secondary to superior Leaving Certificate performance, said Dr Siun OFlynn, head of medical education at UCCs school of medicine.

We wonder whether external factors such as the prevailing economic climate may have influenced applicant behaviour.

It is known that male applications to medicine tend to increase in times of economic uncertainty. Perhaps the apparent security offered by a career in medicine has made such an option more attractive to high academic performing males in Ireland.

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Medical school program trains doctors for the future of medicine

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Health care in America has changed drastically over the last decade but the way doctors are trained has been the same for over 100 years. Now, some of the nations top medical schools are revamping their programs.

Probably the single biggest reason was trying to prepare students for what health care was going to be like in a decade, Dr. Charles Lockwood, dean of The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine told FoxNews.com. Because if you think the last 10 years have been quite a change, really when we begin to be able to sequence peoples entire DNA, and identify every conceivable illness that they're going to have, and begin to design prevention along those lines it's going to require a very different mindset for docs.

Typically, medical students spend their first two years of medical school hitting the books, but at OSUs College of Medicine, theyre trained as medical assistants in the first six weeks, and within eight weeks, they are seeing patients as health coaches.

Working with patients in a service-type fashion early on in the curriculum is extremely valuable to the students it keeps them grounded in why they came to medical school, Dr. Daniel Clinchot, vice dean for education at OSUs College of Medicine said of the schools new Lead. Serve. Inspire program. Having your patient population that you work with over the course of 18 months is very unique, and I think really is inspiring for many of our students.

Historically, American medicine has always centered around doctors, but a growing shift in health care delivery has put more emphasis on ensuring quality outcomes for patients.

You have to do a lot more teaching of patients, you have to explain their illness, you have to explain all the options available for their therapy, you have to spend a lot of time talking about prevention, said Lockwood. Communication skills are something that are going to be critically important for the future doc, and that's not something we've emphasized before in medical education.

Advances in technology and a focus on prevention are just two of the health care changes that helped shape the new Lead. Serve. Inspire curriculum. All incoming medical students are given iPads and classes are available as traditional lectures, podcasts and e-learning modules.

In a state-of-the-art clinical skills center on campus, students can practice virtual laparoscopy and robotic procedures. And there are four critical care simulation bays with life-like mannequins that can mimic human illnesses and medical emergencies. From a control room outside the simulation area, instructors create scenarios that test the students ability to treat patients under pressure in the emergency room, operating room, trauma center and labor and delivery wing.

I think the best thing about the simulations is that it helps you practice in a lower-stress environments than when you're actually working with patients, Shannon Emerick, a medical student at OSUs College of Medicine, said. You can kind of get the jitters out, and by pretending these are real patients, you can make sure you have everything straight by the time you're working with actual people.

Learning the business of health care is also at the core of the Lead. Serve. Inspire program. Health care economics classes are built into the curriculum, and students also have the option to minor in business or take time off to get their MBA to help them prepare to run a successful practice in the future.

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Medical School Debt Disproportionately Affects African-American Students

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A new report says more African-American medical school students anticipate higher levels of debt than students of other races and ethnicities.

African-American medical school students have significantly higher amounts of anticipated debt than students of other races and ethnicities, according to a report from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health published in the journal PLOS One on Monday.

The researchers surveyed more than 2,300 medical students enrolled in 111 accredited medical schools during the 2010-11 academic year.Overall, 62 percent of medical students said they anticipated more than $150,000 in debt upon completing medical school. But a much higher percentage of African-American students reported anticipated debt above $150,000, at 77.3, compared to white students, at 65 percent. Meanwhile, a lower rate of Hispanic or Latino and Asian students anticipated debt in excess of $150,000, at 57.2 percent and 50.2 percent respectively.

[READ: How Increasing Medical School Enrollment Affects M.D. Hopefuls]

"The cost of American medical education has increased substantially over the past decade," the report says. "Given racial/ethnic inequalities in access to financial resources, it is plausible that increases in student debt burden resulting from these increases in cost may not be borne equally."

One explanation for lower anticipated debt among Hispanic students, according to the report, is that group of students are likely coming from immigrant households, despite the fact that group has among the lowest median incomes in the United States. Likewise, Asian students are more likely to come from immigrant families, which could explain their lower levels of debt, as "immigrant families may be less comfortable with the American norm of educational loan utilization than non-immigrant families," said co-author Abdulrahman El-Sayed, in a statement.

"At the same time, they may be more willing to offset the costs of their children's graduate education," El-Sayed said.

[ALSO: See Which Medical School Graduates Have the Most Debt]

But the findings also underscore the belief that the high cost of medical school deters qualified minority students from applying and enrolling, especially among African-American students. Since 2004, the report says, the percentage of African-American students enrolled in medical schools has fallen, while enrollment for Hispanic and Asian students continues to rise. In 2004, African-American students represented 7.4 percent of students enrolled in Allopathic schools (the traditional route resulting in an M.D.), compared to 7 percent in 2011.

The report found that compared to the overall population in America, Asian students are overrepresented in the medical student population by 75 percent, whereas African-American students are underrepresented by 100 percent.

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GTA 5 – Goodbye Liberty City, Hello Los Santos – GTA IV Goodbye GTA V Welcome – Video

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Liberty United and Pamela Love turn guns into jewelry

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The innovative new start-up takes illegal weaponry and turns it into fashionable accessories and has teamed up with Pamela Love on a new Fall 2013 collection.

JewelerPamela Lovehas designed a new collection of Fall-Winter jewelry for socially conscious start-upLiberty United, which aims to reduce gun violence in American cities by taking illegal guns off the streets, and melting them down into jewelry.

The company (founded by serial entrepreneur Peter Thum) first appeared in June this year, unveiling a debut collaboration with jeweler Phillip Crangi ofGiles & Brother.

With pieces starting at $85, NYC-based designer Pamela Love has reimagined some of her top-selling designs including the Aeternum ring, cuff and pendant, the Inlay Cage, and her bestselling Talon cuff.

"I was very excited to work on this project with Peter and Liberty United. Their missionis unique and progressive, and a great way to help effect positive change. I hope morepeople start moving this direction," said Love.

Pieces feature a unique serial number linking to the original gun, with other jewelry created from recycled brass bullet casings, stainless and blackened steel and 14-karat gold. Twenty-five percent of profits from the collection will go towards funding programs against gun violence in the US.

"From the moment we met, Pamela was excited about the mission and concept of Liberty United. Beyond her talent and prominence as a designer, I like Pamela as a person. She's open, thoughtful and frank. She makes the pursuit of great design and our mission fun," explained Peter Thum, Liberty United's founder.

Thum previously created clean water startup Ethos; acquired by Starbucks in 2005, the charity has provided more than $6 million in funding for water and sanitation programs around the world. In 2009 he founded Fonderie 47which, working on the same principles as Liberty United, has removed 32,000 assault weapons from conflict and post-conflict zones and turned their metal parts into jewelry.

The designs will hit the Pamela Love and Liberty United online stores this fall.

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Liberty Media Corporation to Present at Goldman Sachs Twenty-Second Annual Communacopia Conference

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Liberty Media Corporation (Nasdaq: LMCA, LMCB) announced that Greg Maffei, President and CEO of Liberty Media Corporation, will be presenting at the Goldman Sachs, 22nd Annual Communacopia Conference, on Wednesday, September 25th at 11:20 a.m., Eastern Time at the Conrad Hotel, NY. During his presentation, Mr. Maffei may make observations regarding the company's financial performance and outlook.

The presentation will be broadcast live via the Internet. All interested persons should visit the Liberty Media Corporation website at http://www.libertymedia.com/events to register for the web cast. An archive of the webcast will also be available on this website for 30 days.

About Liberty Media Corporation

Liberty Media Corporation owns interests in a broad range of media, communications and entertainment businesses, including its subsidiaries SiriusXM, Atlanta National League Baseball Club, Inc. and TruePosition, Inc., its interests in Charter Communications, Live Nation Entertainment and Barnes & Noble, and minority equity investments in Time Warner Inc., Time Warner Cable, and Viacom.

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