Is the government looking for terrorists in Americans’ electronic medical records?
Admittedly, it’s an astonishing question, but for many months, this year and last, Congress was roiled in a contentious debate over the legality of a government...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality published interim guidelines for creating a patient-safety organization while HHS continues to hammer out a final rule governing how PSOs will collect and share patient-safety data. The interim guide,...
Though the CMS didn’t necessarily address all provider concerns with its Recovery Audit Contractor program rollout, one change that brought relief to California providers was the exclusion of PRG-Schultz International as an auditor.
In the first eight months of the year, unstable markets delivered deep losses for Riverview Hospital’s investments. Then came September, and losses doubled.
Healthcare borrowers continued to wait for relief last week after the United States’ massive financial rescue package failed to deliver a confidence boost to investors as hoped.
Trouble continues to brew this week for Rodney Miller as the young hospital executive is set to answer charges that he conspired with his management team to steal from the Virgin Islands hospital where he was chief executive officer.
The top executive of Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, R.I., said he and his colleagues have been looking toward the future even while legal events have dragged public attention back through an ugly chapter in the organization’s past.
The pressure is on for providers to demonstrate they are adhering to best infection-control practices as several leading quality and professional organizations throw their support behind uniform implementation of standardized processes.
The healthcare market is birthing an increasing number of partnerships between Asian and U.S. providers, but global healthcare experts are questioning whether the arrangements, which seek to modernize healthcare services in Asian countries, will...
A new report that says primary-care physicians are not prepared to provide the financial information that their patients with high-deductible, consumer-driven health plans and health savings accounts require got some backing from a leading...
If healthcare facilities want to know whether standardized documentation and action reports can help reduce their pressure ulcer rates, they can turn to research available on the Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site.
“Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I may see or hear in the lives of men which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept...
Is the government looking for terrorists in Americans’ electronic medical records?
Admittedly, it’s an astonishing question, but for many months, this year and last, Congress was roiled in a contentious debate over the legality of a government...
A few months ago, this magazine published a cover story on the alarming number of U.S. air ambulance crashes in the first half of 2008 (July 7, p. 6). At that time the death toll from such accidents stood at 16.
A few months ago, this magazine published a cover story on the alarming number of U.S. air ambulance crashes in the first half of 2008 (July 7, p. 6). At that time the death toll from such accidents stood at 16.
It has been 15 years since the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics recommended that ICD-9 should be replaced, and eight years since that body recommended that ICD-10 should be adopted. On Aug. 22, the proposed rule for “Modification to...
Your invitation to send our comments regarding editorials is just too great to ignore this time (“What you see is what you’ll get,” Sept. 29, p. 18). Let me be clear: Neil McLaughlin is an empty suit fulfilling the stereotype of a typical...
I was at a meeting with a young hospital executive recently when the topic turned to patient loyalty. Just how is it earned? And is it really a rarity these days? I could tell she was concerned about the subject yet excited about what could be...
Boca Raton (Fla.) Community Hospital has given control to its third chief executive officer in less than a year as the 394-bed Florida hospital struggles to contain financial losses that topped $100 million in the past fiscal year.
Terika Richardson was named COO and Sean Thomson was named CFO of Spotsylvania (Va.) Regional Medical Center, an HCA hospital under construction. Richardson, 31, was associate administrator at HCA’s Reston (Va.) Hospital Center and was...
New York City health officials want smokers to pause (and cringe) before lighting up. Gotham's campaign against the deadly habit has plastered matchbooks with graphic, disgusting images of how smoking destroys the body.
