St. Francis sports medicine adds to historic two-week run

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It's still fair to say St. Francis High owns the National High School Sports Medicine Championships.

Not only did Eli Hallak, director of the Golden Knights sports medicine program, develop the online competition two years ago, but his students won its division in consecutive years.

It capped off what has to be the best two-week span in the history of St. Francis sports medicine program after it also received a Safe Sports School Award from the National Athletic Trainers' Assn. on May 20. The National High School Sports Medicine Championship results were released May 31.

"I've got to agree it is," chuckled Hallak, who developed the national online competition in association with the American Academic Competition Institute and John Meadows of the computer company Meadows and Associates. "A couple of my colleagues said, 'OK, we're done congratulating you.' It's a testament to the program and a testament to our school, administration and our students that make this program happen."

St. Francis won the National High School Sports Medicine Championships Alert Services (Small Schools) Division for the second year in a row. The Golden Knights also placed in the fifth in the nation with 71.54 points. Culver City was tops in the nation with 78.26 points.

A total of 400 students from 28 high schools and seven states competed at the national level after qualifying out of a field of 2,000 students and 190 schools on a regional scale this year.

Schools advanced by placing in the top 10 in a state or regional division. The competition was put together in 2012 to allow schools to hone and test their sports medicine skills with having to pay to travel out of state.

"[Hallak] did a great job of preparing us for it," said St. Francis' Sean Bird, a student in Hallak's introduction to kinesiology and rehabilitation course that took part in the test and received top-25, All-American status after tying for 16th in the nation. "It's a great thing we were able to win it two years in a row.

"Coach Hallak has been really excited about it and I know both classes have been really excited, as well as the school as a whole."

In another example of repeat success in the competition, which was designed to test and celebrate high school students' sports medicine/athletic training knowledge, St. Francis' Brett Homer took second in the state.

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WEVE all heard the stories. The teenager who gets pills from her friends medicine cabinet. The toddler who finds Moms medicine and accidentally poisons himself. The father who becomes addicted to pain pills and accidentally overdoses.

In 2010, 209 King County residents died from an overdose of prescription drugs. Thats a loss of life equivalent to the crash of a full Boeing 737.

Prescription-drug misuse is a national epidemic. In King County, drug overdoses surpassed car crashes as a leading cause of preventable death in 2011. And more people die from prescription medicines than from heroin and cocaine combined.

Like many public-health problems, there is no single solution to prescription-drug misuse. But a convenient and secure unused-medicine-return program is a key strategy for addressing this problem. Thats because we know that roughly one-third of prescription and over-the-counter medicines sold in King County arent consumed. We also know that 32 percent of child-poisoning deaths in Washington were caused by someone elses prescription medication, and 26 percent were caused by someone elses over-the-counter medicine.

Thats why the King County Board of Health is considering a proposal to create a countywide secure medicine-return program. Under the suggested legislation, residents would be able to drop, free-of-charge, leftover and expired medicines in secure boxes conveniently located in most retail pharmacies or law-enforcement offices. Collected medicines would then be destroyed by incineration at permitted facilities.

Drug manufacturers selling medicines for residential use in King County would be required to run and pay for the program, similar to established product-stewardship programs in our state for items like computers. Public Health Seattle & King County would oversee the program to ensure its effectiveness and safety.

Washington has led the nation in efforts to address the medicine-misuse crisis. We require health-care providers to be educated about prescribing opiate painkillers. A prescription-monitoring program is up and running. Law enforcement continues to take action to curb illegal use. A convenient way to dispose of unneeded medicines is the missing piece in our efforts.

There is significant demand for a take-back system in King County. Biannual medicine take-back events run by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are popular with county residents. Since 2010, these events have collected more than 17,000 pounds of unused medicines in King County alone.

Some law-enforcement agencies and pharmacies such as Group Health and several Bartell Drugs stores voluntarily offer drop-boxes for residents to dispose of their drugs. But because these programs arent widely available, they collect just a fraction of the unused medicines in our homes. A comprehensive system offering secure, safe and convenient disposal options to all county residents is needed.

Federal agencies such as the DEA, the Food and Drug Administration, Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Environmental Protection Agency all recommend take-back programs as the safest way to dispose of leftover and expired medicines and consider take-backs a key strategy to reduce prescription-drug abuse.

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Modernizing Medicine’s Medical Director, Tim A. Sayed, MD, Is Elected to the HIMSS EHR Association Executive Committee

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BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwired - Jun 19, 2013) - Modernizing Medicine, the creator of the Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), a cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical records (EMR) system, announces that Tim A. Sayed, MD, the company's Medical Director of EMA Plastic Surgery and EMA Cosmetic, has been elected to the HIMSS Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association Executive Committee.

The EHR Association is a trade group of more than 40 software companies that develop, market and support EHRs in the United States. Member companies work together to share knowledge and best practices to support the safe operation and use of EHRs to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of patient care. The EHR Association is a partner of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and operates as an independent organizational unit within HIMSS for companies who are EHR software solution providers. The EHR Association helps HIMSS establish its strategic direction and official positions on issues related to electronic health records.

Dr. Sayed will be one of two new members joining the Executive Committee, which is responsible for establishing the guiding principles of the EHR Association and for developing and implementing strategic plans. Dr. Sayed will work alongside representatives from Allscripts, Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., PracticeFusion, Cerner, GE Healthcare IT, McKesson and Siemens.

"I am thrilled to join the HIMSS EHR Association Executive Committee," said Dr. Sayed, "The opportunity will allow me and the Modernizing Medicine team to have a more significant impact on the adoption of EHRs, and I'm excited to work with the other EHR providers to help establish and foster industry best practices."

To see a full list of members of the EHR Association, click here.

About Modernizing MedicineModernizing Medicine is transforming how healthcare information is created, consumed and utilized in order to increase efficiency and improve outcomes. Our 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 900 physician practices across the country. In 2013 Modernizing Medicine was listed at No. 47 on FORBES annual ranking of America's Most Promising Companies.

About the EHR AssociationEstablished in 2004, the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association is comprised of more than 40 companies that supply the vast majority of operational EHRs to physicians' practices and hospitals across the United States. The EHR Association operates on the premise that the rapid, widespread adoption of EHRs will help improve the quality of patient care as well as the productivity and sustainability of the healthcare system as a key enabler of healthcare transformation. The EHR Association and its members are committed to supporting safe healthcare delivery, fostering continued innovation, and operating with high integrity in the market for our users and their patients and families.

The EHR Association is a partner of the Health Information Systems Management Society (HIMSS). For more information, visit http://www.himssEHRA.org.

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Liberty Township, Powell join Bexley in pact to share taxes

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ThisWeek Community News Wednesday June 19, 2013 1:10 PM

Liberty Township and Powell city officials came together in a special meeting Friday, June 14, to discuss the creation of a Joint Economic Development Zone that would collect an estimated $1.3 million in income taxes each year.

In partnership with the city of Bexley, establishing a JEDZ would allow Powell and Liberty Township to collect funds that originate as income taxes at Bexley's rate of 2.5 percent until 2043. The income taxes would be collected from workers whose companies fall within the zone's boundaries, which include Liberty Township-owned properties, Olentangy schools located in Liberty Township, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Zoombezi Bay, Safari Golf Course, Del-Co Water, Delaware County Sanitary and Columbus State Community College's Delaware branch.

If approved by the city and the township, the JEDZ contract will appear before city and township voters as an issue on the Nov. 5 ballot.

"This JEDZ will promote a spirit of cooperation between the city and the township that has been lacking in the past," said township Trustee Curt Sybert. "This is an absolute no-brainer for Liberty Township, the city of Powell and even our partners in the city of Bexley."

JEDZ districts were created to help cash-strapped townships that aren't legally authorized to collect income taxes. As part of the partnership, Bexley would act as the collecting agent and receive 3 percent of the JEDZ gross revenue shares to cover its collection costs.

Research conducted by Powell officials shows the parcels in the proposed JEDZ have an estimated annual payroll of $52 million. If the 2.5 percent income tax is applied, that would add an estimated $1.3 million to the JEDZ fund. Of those earnings, 85.8 percent would be allocated to Powell and 14.2 percent to Bexley. A separate contract would split Powell's share, allocating half of it to Liberty Township.

The contract also calls for 10 percent of the gross JEDZ revenues to be funneled into projects within the JEDZ territory.

A JEDZ board funded by 2 percent of the divided revenue would consist of nine representatives -- three each from Bexley, Powell and Liberty Township -- and advise on how the funds should be spent. Sybert said joint projects resulting from the JEDZ could include bike paths and park equipment.

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Liberty law school demands lawsuit coverage

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Virginia Lawyers Weekly/June 19, 2013

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) Liberty Universitys law school wants a judge to force its insurance company to pay for its defense in a lawsuit stemming from a same-sex-marriage custody battle.

Virginia Lawyers Weekly (http://bit.ly/16gkYwz ) reports that the school claims in Lynchburg federal court that Hanover Insurance Co. wrongly denied coverage in the lawsuit filed by Janet Jenkins in Vermont.

Jenkins contends Libertys agents conspired to aid the 2009 disappearance of then-10-year-old Isabella Miller. The girl and her birth mother, Lisa Miller, fled to Nicaragua with the help of a Virginia pastor who was convicted last summer of aiding an international kidnapping.

Hanover says it doesnt owe coverage because Jenkins lawsuit does not claim bodily injury under its policies.

Liberty contends Jenkins emotional distress claim falls within the scope of the policys bodily injury definition.

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Information from: Virginia Lawyers Weekly, http://www.valawyersweekly.com

Copyright 2013 Globe Newspaper Company.

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Campaign to "deport" the Statue of Liberty and send her back to France takes on immigration reform.

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"I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, or LegalsPAC.

Their satirical campaign to deport the Statue of Liberty comes during a heated debate on immigration.

Ishita Srivastava, producer of the video, says she was surprised how successful the satire was at making people "almost believe" the Deport the Statue campaign. It's a fine example of Poe's Law, which holds that on the Internet, it can be impossible to tell the difference between sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.

Even so, most people on Twitter get the joke, with one user joking, "Ship her back to France before she has an anchor baby."

Srivastava produced the video for human rights organization Breakthrough, which aims to "break through" the immigration debate with humor.

"We call on US citizens, like you, to join us in insisting that our government remove the statue for the sake of our nations heritage and its future. We need to #TakeLibertyBack and #DeportTheStatue NOW!"

In the video, Lady Liberty sits down in an office with a dismissive immigration worker who asks questions like, "Can you prove you're not taking a job away from an educated American statue?"

She says she has "over 120 years of experience" in her field, and that she's "an icon of American freedom." The real Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, is set to reopen to the public on July 4.

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Winner of the Dante Stakes at York in May, the colt outran his odds at Epsom when chasing home Ruler Of The World, finishing as well as anything under William Buick.

He will tackle the Derby winner again a week on Saturday in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

Godolphin's racing manager Simon Crisford told http://www.godolphin.com. "We are delighted to have acquired Libertarian.

"His form is excellent and it is great to have a new addition to our team.

"We look forward to seeing him run in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby on Saturday week."

Assistant trainer Karl Burke said: "I believe the deal has gone through and as far as I know we're training him up to the Irish Derby next weekend.

"It goes without saying that we'll be sorry to see him go as his best days are in front of him but we've been very lucky to have him.

"We'd be delighted if he could win the Irish Derby before joining Godolphin.

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