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A former employee of Newport News, Va.-based Riverside Health System was arrested and charged for stealing credit card information from cancer patients, according to a report from The Virginian-Pilot.
The number of foreign drug and medical devices the U.S. Food and Drug Administration refuses to import has increased exponentially from 2012 to 2013, according to a news release from Registrar Corp, an FDA consulting firm.
The North Carolina Health Information Exchange will extend its connectivity to skilled nursing facilities across the state.
Of the nearly 100,000 mHealth apps available on the market, only 100 are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a New England Journal of Medicine report.
Telemedicine has the potential to improve access to care and ease the physician shortage. However, physician licensing and other regulations, a lack of reimbursement parity laws and other obstacles have hindered telemedicine's expansion.
While rewards or incentives may be successful in encouraging patients to enroll in online health management programs, they may not be enough to keep patients engaged in the program, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet…
An association of pediatricians in the Portland area has launched an online tool that will help pediatricians better track their patients' health across care settings.
McKesson has reported revenues of $44.1 billion for the three months ended June 30, up 37 percent compared with the same period last year.