WELLINGTON, Fla., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Quantum Group, Inc. (Amex: QGP, QGP.WSA, QGP.WSB) (www.QuantumMD.com ) announced today through its subsidiary, Renaissance Health Systems, Inc. (RHS), that it has recently deployed a web-based portal to centralize information pertaining to the top five (5) contracted HMOs of the Company, in a private and secure HIPAA compliant environment. In addition to providing a means for secure communication between RHS and the contracted physicians, the portal enables providers to more easily obtain and access authorizations and referrals, patient eligibility information, formularies, and other relevant information concerning affiliated HMOs.

CAMBRIDGE, MA, and NASHVILLE, TN, May 15 /PRNewswire/ - rL Solutions, the leading provider of healthcare quality and safety software, and the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy (CPPA) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a leader in risk reduction services, announced today a strategic alliance to improve patient safety.

Healthcare staffing company Medical Solutions has been named the winner of the Best Places to Work in Omaha for companies with 50-250 local employees. The Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce and Baird Holm LLP sponsor the competition which is based on voting by employees throughout Omaha.

WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An analysis by the Aspen Institute has found gaps in the health care reform plans of Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama even as each of the three offers thoughtful proposals that hold the promise of improving health care in the United States.

NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Revolution Health and EmergingMed today announced that they have teamed up to offer patients and physicians the largest personalized cancer clinical trial matching and referral service in the United States. Individuals can quickly assess their eligibility for more than 10,000 clinical trial listings in a confidential and efficient way through an online search engine or by calling a clinical trial specialist. The service, powered by EmergingMed, is offered for free on http://www.RevolutionHealth.com.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark and AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Doctors in Denmark and the Netherlands have successfully carried out Europe's first clinical treatments using advanced RapidArc(TM) technology from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR). Cancer patients at Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet and Amsterdam's VU University medical center became the first people in Europe to benefit from this advanced form of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT).

CHICAGO, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- An anesthetic injection into a collection of nerves in the neck of breast cancer survivors may reduce the severity and frequency of debilitating hot flashes and night awakenings associated with breast cancer treatment, according to a new study published online today by The Lancet Oncology and appearing in its June issue.

CHICAGO, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Rising Medical Solutions, Inc. (Rising), a leading medical-financial solutions organization, and Jason Beans, Rising CEO, are featured in Norman Scarborough's recently published entrepreneurship textbook, Effective Small Business Management, 9th edition. This edition, and previous editions, are utilized in business schools across the country and are aimed at providing tools and encouragement to those students who are serious about starting their own businesses.

WELLINGTON, Fla., May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Quantum Group (Amex: QGP) today announced that its subsidiary, Renaissance Health System of Florida, Inc., has expanded its relationship with one of its HMO partners in South Florida to include the use of its Community Health System. This expanded relationship will allow Renaissance to extend medical care to the HMO's Medicaid patients. The contract will initially cover South Florida, which has over 740,000 Medicaid beneficiaries. Quantum expects to deploy a similar model in other areas and with additional payers going forward.