Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., accepted Doug Edgeton's, MBA, MPH, resignation as chief operating officer and executive vice president, according to a Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center news release.
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Even though most states endured severe financial challenges over the past year, eligibility levels for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program mostly stayed stable in 2011, according to a report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured…
Porter Health System, based in Valparaiso, Ind., appointed Brian Sinotte COO, according to a Portage Life report.
Though the technology has been around for roughly 30 years, physicians making the move from paper to electronic medical records may still face some challenges — particularly when it comes to understanding the legal implications of EMRs. In Nov. 2011,…
Computerized synoptic operative reports capture more preoperative and operative data than traditional dictated reports, according to a study in Archives of Surgery.
Cancer mortality rates in the United States have decreased approximately 23 percent in men and 15 percent in women between 1990 and 2008, according to an American Cancer Society news release.
Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health System is preparing to reduce its workforce by 400 employees, according to a Lund Report. The large layoff is due to a $40 million gap in the system’s budget, including $30 million in Medicaid payment cuts.…
Ohio is investing $1 million to help train the providers of 50 physician practices on the patient-centered medical home model, according to a Columbus Dispatch report. Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s administration is funding the effort with money the state received…
In the nearly 22 months since President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care into law, 28 states and the District of Columbia have committed to establishing health insurance exchanges — the provision that will allow consumers to…
Flint, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care has launched a rebranding campaign in which all 11 hospitals in the system will include “McLaren” in their names, according to a system news release. The new names are generally a pairing of “McLaren” and…