After taking several months to repair damage from a fire, Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, N.J., reopened its intensive care unit May 28.
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The Provider Data Action Alliance, a healthcare collaboration that launched in June 2017, released a road map on May 30 to address issues related to inaccurate provider data.
Recognizing May as Critical Care Awareness Month provides a timely opportunity to reflect on the wide range of providers who care for the critically ill.
Consider a situation where healthcare is not just an industry term- a situation where EHRs are not an integral part of physicians schedule but just a support to providing care.
Beginning around 1980, the U.S. began to diverge from its peer nations where it began to significantly increase health spending, yet it failed to improve healthcare outcomes.
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LabCorp will remain UnitedHealthcare's exclusive national laboratory provider through Jan. 1, 2019, under a contract renewal that stresses a further commitment to value-based programs.
UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital plans to shutter the 12-bed pediatric unit at its Leominster (Mass.) campus.
Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems plans to close Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center, a 116-bed hospital in Kennett, Mo., June 30. The hospital has already started scaling back services, which has left this rural area in southeast Missouri known as…
Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of IBM, said during a May 24 keynote address at the VivaTech Conference in Paris that the company plans to commit $30 million over five years to the Call for Code Global Initiative.
A team of researchers has developed a predictive model it hopes will be used to prevent suicides among patients in the 90 days following a mental health specialty or primary care outpatient visit.