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	Are You Benefiting From Electronic Prescribing?
	E-Prescribing is the fastest and most accurate way of prescribing patient medications. Hand written mistakes are avoided when your physician sends your prescriptions to the pharmacy electronically. Drug and allergy interactions alert the physician which improves patient safety. Talk to your doctor today to see if they are prescribing electronically or click here for more information on e-Prescribing.

	NTSP receives first place in Modern Healthcare's IT Case Study Contest
	NTSP envisioned a technology solution that would gather and use real-time patient information that could be parsed from multiple sources to provide faster, better and safer patient care, enhance physician communication and provide fiscally responsible care within one single sign-on application. In 2008, NTSP finalized development and implemented SandlotConnect, a comprehensive and interoperable Health Information Exchange (HIE). >> More

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Natural Sleep Remedies
If sleep has plunged to the bottom of your to-do list, you're not alone. Although the National Sleep Foundation recommends getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night, the average American logs only six hours and 40 minutes. What gives? Blame crazy schedules and of course, sleeping woes. Before you rush to the drugstore to buy an over-the-counter (OTC) sleep medication, try one of the following natural sleep remedies. "These are safer and have less side effects than OTC medications," says Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D., author of 'From Fatigued to Fantastic' and medical director of the national Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers, adding that they're safe for anybody to use. Many of them not only help you fall asleep and stay asleep, but they also promote muscle relaxation.
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Consumers Check for Recalled Eggs
U.S. consumers are wondering which eggs are safe to eat after a second Iowa company issued a recall of whole, raw eggs linked to a nationwide Salmonella outbreak.

Hillandale Farms in New Hampton issued a recall of eggs from two of its plants on Aug. 20, saying there have been laboratory-confirmed illnesses associated with the eggs. The announcement comes just two days after Wright County Egg in Galt expanded its Aug. 13 recall to a total of 380 million eggs.

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Yoga Day USA

There's no greater feeling than waking up in the morning, stretching your hands out in front of you and over your head and breathing the first deep breath of the day. Even if you are still in bed, stretching and breathing become an integral part of the waking up process and as humans, we tend to rely on routines to get us out of bed in the morning. Every January, the Yoga Alliance tries to bring that same fresh-from-sleep energized feeling in the form of a yoga class. The Yoga Alliance is a professional organization that certifies yoga instructors and yoga schools across the country.
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1 in 5 Hospitalizations Involve Diabetes Patients

Nearly one in five hospitalizations in 2008 involved patients with diabetes, according to a federal report. The cost of caring for those patients was $83 billion for 7.7 million stays, or nearly one in four dollars of hospital costs that year, a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says.

The report also says that the average or mean cost of caring for that hospitalization was $10,937, nearly $2,200 more than the cost of a stay for a patient without a diagnosis of diabetes.

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