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Milstien signs on as head of VCHC

By   /  Monday, February 9th, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Milstien signs on as head of VCHC

Ventura County Health Center announced today that Kimberly Milstien will succeed Barry Fisher as its next CEO. She will assume the position March 1.

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Clinics stage comeback as services grow

By   /  Friday, February 6th, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Nonprofits, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Clinics stage comeback as services grow

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics brought its finances into the black largely thanks to the expansion of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act that has dropped the clinics’ number of uninsured patients by 14.4 percent.

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Amgen profit tops analysts’ estimates on drug sales, tax credit

By   /  Friday, January 30th, 2015  /  East Ventura County, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on Amgen profit tops analysts’ estimates on drug sales, tax credit

Amgen, the nation’s biggest biotech company, reported fourth-quarter profits that beat analysts’ estimates, aided by a tax benefit and higher-than-estimated sales of arthritis drug Enbrel.

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E-records mandated by ACA spur growth in IT

By   /  Friday, January 30th, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on E-records mandated by ACA spur growth in IT

Health care providers have been scrambling to migrate from paper to electronic records, also known as EHRs, to avoid getting slapped with reimbursement penalties from Medicare and Medicaid.

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Health-care giants tangle over emergency room billing

By   /  Friday, November 21st, 2014  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Law & Goverment, Subscriber content, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Health-care giants tangle over emergency room billing

In its suit, filed Nov. 12, Sierra Vista Hospital says that Oakland-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan owes it thousands of dollars for treating patients who showed up at its emergency room and were treated.

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Spinal fusion kit is latest innovation from ECA Medical

By   /  Friday, November 14th, 2014  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Small Business, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Spinal fusion kit is latest innovation from ECA Medical

ECA Medical Instruments, a designer and manufacturer of single-procedure torque-limiting surgical kits and other medical devices, is producing the world’s first single-procedure spinal fusion kit.

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Getting a grip on diabetes: Aptitude device gets fast track status for clinical trials

By   /  Friday, October 24th, 2014  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Getting a grip on diabetes: Aptitude device gets fast track status for clinical trials

Aptitude creates a special type of molecule called an aptamer, which it is using to develop a first-of-its-kind hand-held device that measures insulin concentrations in real-time and can diagnose pre-diabetes. The government’s interest in furthering such research is unsurprising as diabetes affects more than 9 percent of Americans.