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A grave robber attempting to access an ancient tomb in Shaanxi has died after the tunnel he dug with two accomplices collapsed on him, according to Xinhua. [ more › ]

NextGen Healthcare Selected as Healthcare Information Technology Provider for Chinese Hospital Solution to Help Prospective Pay Hospital System Integrate with Independent Practice Association (IPA), Increase Care Coordination and Achieve Meaningful Use HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NAS: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today an agreement with Chinese Hospital to deploy NextGen® Inpatient Clinicals across its enterprise. Chinese Hospital will use NextGen Inpatient Clinicals to automate its medical processes, improve organizational efficiencies and provide better quality care for its patients while meeting Meaningful Use (MU) criteria. San Francisco-based Chinese Hospital is a 54-bed, acute care, community-owned, non-profit hospital offering a wide range of medical, surgical and specialty programs. Chinese Hospital aims to achieve a single, shared patient record using NextGen® technology across its integrated inpatient and ambulatory organization. NextGen® solutions offer both advanced functionality tailored for Chinese Hospital's organizational needs and seamless integration to its Independent Practice Association (IPA), Chinese Community Health Care Association (CCHCA). CCHCA is currently utilizing both NextGen® Ambulatory EHR and NextGen® Practice Management in physician offices. NextGen Inpatient Clinicals is a highly scalable, secure and mobile-enabled platform, designed to initiate widespread workflow efficiency and communication; reduce errors and time-to-chart; and, improve patient care. The software facilitates complete electronic charting at the point-of-care, promotes interdisciplinary documentation and includes a discrete clinical data repository for customizable and comprehensive reporting, thereby providing Chinese Hospital the capabilities to meet MU requirements. Implementing NextGen Inpatient Clinicals will enhance care coordination, data capture and data sharing across Chinese Hospital's enterprise and completes its integration strategy. "We believe that this partnership with NextGen Healthcare affords us the tools necessary to provide continuous, holistic care across both our in-patient and out-patient care settings," said Brenda Yee, chief executive officer for Chinese Hospital. "NextGen Healthcare brings to us a truly integrated solution that supports our mission to deliver the highest levels of quality care to the community we serve and to advance our efforts to attest for MU." "Chinese Hospital is precisely the type of facility to which NextGen Hospital Solutions caters, and we are pleased to work together to bring the benefits and customization capabilities of our technologies to their hospital. Together, we will strive to enhance care, improve efficiencies and achieve better outcomes," said Daniel J. Morefield, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Quality Systems, Inc. About Chinese Hospital Chinese Hospital provides a full range of primary and secondary acute care and ambulatory services to a multi-cultural clientele within the San Francisco Bay area. The hospital is licensed for 54 acute care beds and features an Intensive Care, Medical Surgical and Telemetry Units, Endoscopy Unit, Surgical Services, Treatment Center (a Level 4 Standby Emergency Medical Service), East West Medicine, Specialty Clinic for Disease Management and Women Health, three Community Clinics and an array of clinical diagnostic and therapeutic services. For more information, visit www.chinesehospital-sf.org. About NextGen Healthcare NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc., provides integrated clinical, connectivity and financial solutions, including revenue cycle

In what seems like a sick joke, it’s been revealed recently that live animals trapped in plastic bags are being sold as souvenirs in China. Known for their propensity to eat all kinds of animals, and not pay much attention to their treatment, it’s still shocking to see such a twisted tourist attraction coming out of China. The animals are usually amphibians such as turtles, fish and lizards. Alongside the animals there is a small amount of water inside each plastic bag. Vendors normally claim the bag contains crystallised oxygen and other nutrients, but most of the trapped animals die within a day or two. If it isn’t enough that the animals die from oxygen deprivation, the vendors also advise customers to microwave the deceased amphibian afterwards. That way it can make for a tasty snack as well as a keychain for as long as the animal is alive. You can normally find the live animals trapped in plastic bags being sold as souvenirs from coolers outside subway stations in China. An excellent place to catch passing tourists and encourage them to buy one of the horrifying keepsakes. Many of the keychains contain young Chinese soft-shell turtles, a species which is quite popular in Chinese cooking once fully grown. Despite the practice seeming decidedly illegal, there are no local laws that say anything to the contrary. Apart from the morale issues associated with these keepsakes, the animals can pose a threat to human health if consumed. Turtles are know for carrying certain strains of the salmonella virus, which can be deadly. A petition to stop the sale of these live-animal keychains is already gathering support on Avaaz.org, with 143,000 people having signed their name already. So if you think live animals trapped in plastic bags isn’t a suitable souvenir to be sold in China, or anywhere else around the world, you could also sign the petition, or tell us what else could be done to prevent this atrocity. Image via Ryot.org Live Animals Trapped In Plastic Bags Sold As Souvenirs In China is a post from: The Inquisitr

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The growing pile of bearishness on China continues. Last night, Chinese stocks hit a new 6-month, as concerns rise about growth, debt, acute financial market stress, a property bubble, and everything else. Today, HSBC has significantly slashed Chinese growth. The bank's chief economist Stephen King tweeted the news: HSBC cuts China growth forecasts to 7.4% in '13 & '14 (from 8.2% and 8.4%) as Beijing focuses on supply reforms instead of demand stimulus. — Stephen King (@KingEconomist) June 19, 2013 Join the conversation about this story »

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Fab, a two-year-old online store for design goods, is laying the groundwork for further global expansion. The startup announced Tuesday that it has raised $150 million in a partial series D round from investors including Tencent, Atomico, Andreessen Horowitz, Itochu, Menlo Ventures, RTP Capital, Pinnacle Ventures, Lars Hinrichs and Docomo Capital. The e-tailer, which is headquartered in the U.S., has already made significant headway into Europe. The region now accounts for approximately 40% of sales, founder and CEO Jason Goldberg told Mashable in a phone interview Tuesday. With the help of new investors Tencent, which operates some of the largest web portals and online messaging systems in China, and Itochu, one of Japan's largest holding companies, Fab has set the stage for its move into East Asia and India. Read more...More about Fab.Com, Business, Startups, and Fab

While speaking with reporters prior to the UK debut of the Ascend P6, a top-level exec from Huawei mentioned that the Chinese handset manufacturer would be “open-minded” about buying Nokia. His exact comments were, “we are considering these sorts of acquisitions; maybe the combination has some synergies but depends on the willingness of Nokia. We are open-minded.” This resulted in a lot of speculation and even some movement in Nokia’s share price. However Huawei was quick to point out that the exec, Richard Yu, was speaking hypothetically and that the company had “no plans” to buy Nokia. The comments, which although may have been less guarded than required of a top-level exec,  underline the company’s ambitions to take on Samsung and Apple at the high end of the smartphone market. Yu also predicted that the number of major players in the smartphone market would reduce to just three or four. As for mobile operating systems, Huawei is a big Android proponent and Yu considers Windows Phone as “weak.” Whether Windows Phone (will be) successful is difficult to say – it has a very small market share. (Windows Phones) are weak but still require a licence fee. That’s not good. Android is free. Huawei is in a good position to think about acquisitions since becoming the third-largest manufacturer of smartphones by volume. In fact Huawei is doing so well that the company expects to sell around 60 million smartphones this year and could have sold more if it wasn’t for a shortage of components! Since Huawei is an Android supporter and Nokia has made a clear decision to focus on Windows Phone, it is unlikely that the two would be in talks about a possible merger or acquisition. Combined with Yu’s comments on Windows Phone being weak, it does truly seem that he was speaking hypothetically. What do you think, would Huawei and Nokia make a good match?

Moving to further strengthen California’s ties with China, California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols and Director of the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission Xu Anliang signed a memorandum of understanding in Shenzhen that will expand cooperation at the subnational level to tackle global climate change. Under the new agreement, California and Shenzhen have agreed to work together to share policy design and early experiences from their climate trading programs, in order to build strong, stable and growing markets for clean energy technology and greenhouse gas emission reductions. The collaboration will focus on building effective systems for data gathering, emissions verification, market monitoring, compliance and enforcement. Additionally, California and Shenzhen agree to monitor and share the best available climate and pollution-related science and research. The goal is to use the data to identify and evaluate additional policies, including performance standards, and to support low-carbon economic growth and reduce toxic air pollution. Chairman Nichols was invited by the Mayor of Shenzhen to participate in the inauguration of China’s first Emissions Trading System (ETS). The event, a milestone in China’s efforts to combat climate change, included a national conference attended by China’s national leaders on climate change, including Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission Minister Xie Zhenhua. Leaders of the seven provinces and cities hosting China’s first ETS pilots also attended this conference, together representing more than 200 million Chinese residents.

The next-generation Nissan X-Trail will follow SUV convention. While that used to mean a boxy, upright 4X4 look worn by the current X-Trail and ancient Ford Escape, today’s breed of crossovers have more curves than edges, and daylight openings smaller than those on yesterday’s sports cars. Not persisting with the X-Trail’s macho image means that the next-gen car will look less out of place when lined up alongside crossovers siblings like the Juke, Qashqai and Murano. We first saw the rounded X-Trail as the Hi-Cross Concept from Geneva 2012, before patent drawings filed by Nissan in China gave us a clear look at the car’s shape and lines. These pics by our spy photographers were taken at the USA’s Death Valley desert, the lowest and driest area in North America and a popular location for hot weather testing. Although the mule is fully covered in black disguise, it’s obvious that the Hi-Cross’ lines have been retained. The Hi-Cross had a 2,780 mm wheelbase, a number that is between the current X-Trail and Murano, while its 4,660 mm overall length is just 30 mm longer than today’s car. The Geneva concept was a seven-seater SUV, so could the next X-Trail have a third-row option? The post SPYSHOTS: Next-gen Nissan X-Trail in the desert appeared first on Paul Tan's Automotive News. Related posts: New Mercedes-Benz C-Class – clearest spyshots yet! SPYSHOTS: 2014 Nissan Teana testing in Malaysia Nissan X-Trail facelift now on sale – 2.0 2WD RM149k Nissan announces global recall for airbag inflator – four units of the CBU X-Trail involved in Malaysia Nissan Friend-ME concept teased – Shanghai debut 2014 Nissan Teana showcased as the Nissan Altima at the 2013 Seoul Motor Show SPYSHOTS: Nissan March facelift snapped in Thailand SPYSHOTS: Nissan Grand Livina facelift undisguised! Next-gen Nissan X-Trail patent drawings appear in China, ditches trademark boxy shape for curves! Nissan Resonance – previewing the new Murano