John E. McDonough, professor of practice at the Harvard School of Public Health, outlines 36 ways a repeal of President Obama's healthcare reform could affect Massachusetts residents, who already have their state's own health reform, according to a Boston Globe…
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Hospital prices remained stable from Nov. 2011 to Dec. 2011, according to data recently published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In mid-November, the question of whether hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery should offer elective angioplasties rose to the surface as the American College of Cardiology issued revised guidelines for percutaneous coronary intervention and the American Hospital Association released a new…
Action Products, a Hagerstown, Md.-based medical supplies company, recently ranked in the top 10 percent nationwide for GTIN Readiness, according to a company news release.
Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, Calif., is continuing its efforts to go green with new IV equipment that are free of PVC and DEHP, two industrial chemicals used in plastics that have been shown to harm human and environmental health.
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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…
Computerized synoptic operative reports capture more preoperative and operative data than traditional dictated reports, according to a study in Archives of Surgery.
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…
Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., has opened the Saint Thomas Heart Ventricular Assist Device Center, according to a hospital news release.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center and The Nebraska Medical Center, both in Omaha, have made preliminary plans for an estimated $370 million cancer center, according to a joint news release (pdf).