Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger plans to launch a transportation pilot program with rabbittransit, a public transportation provider for patients in York, Pa., who are unable to travel to medical appointments, according to The Daily Item.
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To move away from "sick care" and into preventive care, healthcare industry stakeholders must apply insights from demographic and lifestyle data, Welltok Chairman and CEO Jeff Margolis wrote in a March 13 op-ed for Harvard Business Review.
Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Healthcare System may go out of network with Cigna April 1 if the parties don't ink a new agreement.
Teens who were homeless in the last year were two times as likely to report emotional distress, self-harm and suicidal thoughts and three times as likely to attempt suicide than their nonhomeless peers, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
Chicago-based University of Illinois Hospital submitted plans to the state board to shutter its physical rehabilitation unit and convert the space into more private medical-surgical beds, according to The Chicago Tribune.
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Arizona Care Network, an ACO based in Phoenix, is piloting Solve.Care's blockchain technology, cloud computing and cognitive learning capabilities to improve healthcare delivery and reduce administrative burdens, the organization announced March 1.
Sharp Chula Vista (Calif.) Medical Center, part of San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare, is tracking patients' movements using wristwatches — an effort that decreased the time it takes for patients to get from place to place throughout the hospital, according to…
The Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians launched a pilot program with the Massachusetts Hospital Association to alert state hospitals of patients who are frequently in and out of different emergency room, which could better coordinate care for high-risk patients, according…
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, issued a statement March 14 about the agency's issuance of a notice aimed at lowering the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to minimally or nonaddictive levels.
Healthcare officials at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine's specialty clinic in Livonia, Mich., expect to complete 50 to 60 vasectomies during the month of March, up from an average of 27 per month during the rest of the year, according to…