Victor Valley Community Hospital in Victorville, Calif., has named CFO Edward Matthews interim CEO, according to a Victorville Daily Press report.
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Methodist Healthcare System, based in San Antonio, Texas, has named Gay Nord as its new CEO, according to a San Antonio Business Journal report.
Physicians at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., have successfully used data from an electronic medical record system to make real-time decisions for patient care, according to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Twenty-nine percent of people who download apps to their cell phones or tablet computers have downloaded a health app, according to a survey (pdf) by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
One-quarter of healthcare organizations do not conduct security risk assessments, according to the 2011 HIMSS Security Survey (pdf).
As the hospital industry enters its second year since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more organizations have accepted or are beginning to implement the law’s principles and philosophies. Terms like “team-based care” are no longer…
If the supercommittee and Congress refuse to increase taxes as part of the deficit reduction plan, both Medicare and Medicaid could succumb to cuts so large that their missions of helping the aged, disabled and poor obtain equitable healthcare will…
Recovery audit contractors have been around the healthcare landscape for a while, but a recent blog post by J. Paul Spencer on The RAConteur looked to see if RACs are performing enough "provider outreach sessions."
Cleveland-based MetroHealth System will eliminate 104 jobs and will not fill 151 vacant positions by next week as part of its job-cuts plan announced at the end of September, according to a MetroHealth news release.
Wisconsin hospitals created roughly $28 billion annually in economic activity in 2010, and they contributed $1.4 billion in community benefits, according to a Wisconsin Hospital Association news release.