Local podiatrist pleads guilty to $1M in health care fraud
Roseville foot doctor Neil Van Dyck pleaded guilty Friday to more than $1 million in health care fraud. Between 2009 and 2014, Van Dyck submitted fraudulent claims worth over $2.8 million to Medicare, Medi-Cal, Tricare and private insurers, court documents show. He was paid more than $1.2 million, including $1 million by Medicare, Medi-Cal and Tricare, the federal health care program for military personnel and dependents. A California-licensed podiatrist who operated Placer Podiatry on Lead Hill…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - October 23, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Kathy Robertson Source Type: news

Charged with 112 felonies, Rocklin cosmetic surgeon gets three months of house arrest
Dr. Efrain Gonzalez, a Rocklin doctor charged with 112 felonies related to his former cosmetic surgery practice, began serving his sentence last week: three months of house arrest. In a plea deal with the Placer County District Attorney’s Office, Gonzalez pled no contest May 7 to charges of conspiracy to perform medicine without a license and tax evasion. He was ordered to pay $100,000 into a fund that will be used to compensate victims who agreed not to sue. He received an ankle bracelet that…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - May 12, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Kathy Robertson Source Type: news

Almost 15,000 new local consumers enroll in Covered California
A total of 14,715 new consumers from the Sacramento area enrolled in Covered California and picked a plan from Nov. 15, 2014 — the start of the second annual open enrollment — through Feb. 2, new data from the state health benefit exchange show. Sacramento County grew the most, with 9,251 new enrollees for 2015. Placer added 2,880; El Dorado, 1,456, and Yolo, 1,128. A total of 69,540 consumers from these four counties enrolled in Covered California and picked a plan during the first open enrollment…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - February 6, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Kathy Robertson Source Type: news

Kaiser appoints new Roseville area executive
Jeff Collins, 58, is the new senior vice president and area manager for Kaiser Permanente in Roseville. A health-care executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience, he started the new job Feb. 1. He replaces Ed Glavis, who retired last year. Collins is responsible for all local health plan and hospital services at Kaiser's 340-bed Roseville Medical Center. The health system works with doctors to provide care to more than 273,000 Kaiser members in South Placer County. He previously…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - February 5, 2015 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Kathy Robertson Source Type: news

Comparison of SAFER behavior assessment results in shelter dogs at intake and after a 3-day acclimation period - Bennett SL, Weng HY, Walker SL, Placer M, Litster A.
In this study, it was hypothesized that different results would be obtained by canine behavior assessments performed within 24 hr of shelter intake (Day 0) and after a 3-day acclimation period (Day 3). Safety Assessment for Evaluating Re-homing assessment...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - January 24, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news

Senior care company to hire up to 200 next year
A home-care franchise plans to hire between 180 and 200 caregivers next year to meet growing demand for services in the region. Home Instead Senior Care serves between 200 and 230 patients in Sacramento, Placer, Nevada and El Dorado counties at any given time but demand is growing as the population ages. The company has to turn away business if there aren't enough caregivers to serve more patients — and demand for services far outweighs the number of available caregivers as business interest…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - December 16, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Kathy Robertson Source Type: news

KITABIS PAK (Tobramycin) Solution Pari Respiratory Equipment
Updated Date: Dec 5, 2014 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven days (since May 20, 2007 EST) - December 5, 2014 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: alerts

Behind the List: What you need to know about this year's list of top hospitals in the region
This week's list evaluated 17 hospitals across Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer and Yolo counties. We used California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development data to compile the list, ranking hospitals by total patient-days. This measure multiplies each patient by the number of days hospitalized. Together, the 17 hospitals recorded 914,195 patient-days. UC Davis Medical Center holds onto the No. 1 spot. It posted 174,678 patient days in 2013, up 3.5 percent from 2012. Shriners Hospitals…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - November 24, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Sharon Havranek Source Type: news

Nepal Landslide Leaves Women and Children Vulnerable
Relief workers and aid agencies are worried about the security, protection and psychological health of women and children in post-disaster settings. Credit: Naresh Newar/IPSBy Naresh NewarDABI, Nepal, Aug 27 2014 (IPS)Living in a makeshift tarpaulin shelter, which barely protects her family from the torrential rainfall or scorching heat of this remote village in southern Nepal, 36-year-old Kamala Pari is under immense stress, worrying about her financial security and children’s safety.The family’s only house and tiny plot of farmland were completely destroyed by the massive landslide on Jul. 2 that struck the village o...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 27, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Naresh Newar Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Civil Society Climate Change Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Environment Featured Gender Gender Violence Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Population Pov Source Type: news

Description of dogs and owners in outdoor built-up areas and their more-than-human issues - Gaunet F, Pari-Perrin E, Bernardin G.
Tensions are generated by the inevitable presence of dogs accompanying humans in cities. Built-up outdoor areas, spaces that are "in between" the home and dog parks, are widely frequented by dogs and their owners. The present case study, performed in Lyon ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - July 17, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Non-Human Animals and Insects Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: Rape Examination Machine for Pari
[The Herald]Zimbabwe will soon have a Colposcopy machine, used for examinations of victims of rape and sexual violence to ease congestion at medical centres as the country grapples with an upsurge of sexual assault cases.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 23, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Enhancing indoor inertial pedestrian navigation using a shoe-worn marker - Placer M, Kovačič S.
We propose a novel hybrid inertial sensors-based indoor pedestrian dead reckoning system, aided by computer vision-derived position measurements. In contrast to prior vision-based or vision-aided solutions, where environmental markers were used-either depl...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - August 11, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Les nano-technologies au service de la santé, un secteur en passe de se démarquer
“Internet offre une multitude de possibilités d’innovation – notamment dans les secteurs des objets connectés et de la santé – permettant ainsi à des pays comme la France de se placer en véritable concurrent et d’innover toujours plus. Actuellement 2,5 milliards de personnes se connectent régulièrement sur internet, et ce chiffre englobera prochainement la moitié des [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Nanotechnology Source Type: news

Giving Paraplegic Women a New Lease on Life
Shaheen Begum receives skills training at the PPC paraplegic centre in Hayatabad in northern Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSGul Shada thought it was the end of the road for her when she and her husband met with a road accident last year in the Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Not only did the mishap leave Shada widowed at the relatively young age of 37, she also sustained an injury to her back that immobilised her. It was then that she came to the country’s sole paraplegic centre (PPC) at Hayatabad, to the southwest of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. And i...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 13, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ashfaq Yusufzai Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Labour Population Poverty & MDGs Regional Categories Women & Economy Women's Health Disabled persons Hayatabad Med Source Type: news

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