Emil Rucigay, chair of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center's board of trustees, has stepped down as leader over his dissatisfaction with the hospital's plans to merge with two other Brooklyn, N.Y., hospitals — Brooklyn Hospital Center and Interfaith Medical Center, according…
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For the fourth quarter of 2011, 247 healthcare merger and acquisition transactions totaling $40.2 billion were announced — a 12 percent drop in deal volume compared to the 282 deals announced in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a…
A recent analysis by Milliman found North Carolina's Medicaid care management program, Community Care of North Carolina, saved $984 million in state and federal funding from 2007 to 2010, according to an American Medical News report.
The following hospital executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent. 1. Nathan Howell joined St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, Mass., as chief operating officer. 2. UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas announced John Warner…
Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, Mass., will soon open its new emergency department that can treat twice the amount of patients as the previous department, according to a Herald News report.
Providing patients with personal health records has little impact on their biological outcomes, satisfaction with care or use of health services, according to a study in the Journal of American Medical Information Association.
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit against Accretive Health, accused of failing to protect confidential information of 23,500 hospital patients, according to a Fox News report.
Health information exchange is a key goal of the HITECH Act and meaningful use program, as it is designed to enable the secure transmission of data between healthcare providers. The American Health Information Management Association named HIE as one of…
The National Quality Forum has endorsed 64 measures that cover patient safety, cardiovascular care and other aspects of patient care.
A review of the National Quality Forum's activity showed that although the group completed or made progress on 60 of 63 projects, NQF did not meet or did not expect to meet the initial time frames approved by HHS for…