With much fanfare a year ago, companies began disclosing the pay and perks of their chief executive officers in much greater detail to comply with securities regulations.
The House voted 231-184 to overturn a rule that would have given lawmakers almost free rein to introduce Medicare legislation in such a way that it could have effectively been used to stall the legislative process.
With much fanfare a year ago, companies began disclosing the pay and perks of their chief executive officers in much greater detail to comply with securities regulations.
Health information technology legislation passed by a House committee last week is being called a good start in what ultimately is a challenging and lengthy process to electronically connect physicians, hospitals and pharmacies to the patients who...
A gusher of online complaints concerning an electronic health-record system used by the Military Health System is unlikely to lead the system to discontinue its use.
CoxHealth President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Bezanson made the most of his first chance to speak publicly about a three-year federal investigation hanging over his two-hospital system in Springfield, Mo.
A new round of litigation has broken out between the management of Integrated Healthcare Holdings, Santa Ana, Calif., and physicians who control more than 40% of the company’s shares.
Materials managers and C-suite executives have significantly different opinions on the condition of the healthcare supply chain, according to a survey presented last week during the 2008 AHRMM conference.
As the lobbying group for health insurers embarks on its coast-to-coast “listening tour” and launches an advertising campaign to build support for its healthcare reform ideas, providers said they were encouraged yet still skeptical about the...
A device that measures sound in jet engines can also measure blood pressure in arteries to treat heart failure—something that might not have been discovered without a hallway conversation between a Georgia Institute of Technology engineer and a...
ProCure Treatment Centers, Bloomington, Ind., has initiated legal action that blames its failure to obtain a certificate of need for an Illinois proton-beam facility on a conspiracy it believes was orchestrated by Northern Illinois University, which...
Swedish Medical Center opened a $140 million orthopedic institute. The 372,000-square-foot facility has 11 stories, including four floors of underground parking, in downtown Seattle.
UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, N.C., said it has signed a letter of intent to acquire the assets of Chatham Hospital for $2 million in cash, plus a commitment to spend $9.3 million on services in Chatham County, N.C., over the next seven years.
ATLANTA—The new board that oversees Grady Memorial Hospital said it hopes it has ended months of controversy over who will lead the struggling hospital by appointing a new chief executive officer.
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare has decided not to ask a federal court to review the Federal Trade Commission’s conclusion that the system’s 2000 acquisition of a third hospital in Chicago’s northern suburbs violated antitrust laws.
Tucked into this year’s Medicare law is a worthy effort to start reining in a significant contributor to rising healthcare spending—the overuse of advanced medical imaging. The new rules seek to stanch the flow of billions of dollars to physician...
Registered nurses are the only clinical healthcare professionals educated within a holistic framework that views the individual, family and community as an interconnected system that can keep us well or help us heal. Our focus is not the ear or the...
The White House apparently does not understand what really is going on with the insurance companies that administer the Medicare Advantage programs (“Fixing unfair Advantages?” July 21, p. 6). These companies receive more than enough money from the...
Academic health centers, or AHCs, are complex organizations with multiple—and sometimes competing—goals and missions. The challenge for any AHC leader is to find the synergies that unify all stakeholders around common performance goals. An incentive...
The Nashville Health Care Council said that Thomas Cigarran, chairman of Nashville-based Healthways, was appointed chairman of the council’s board for the 2008-09 year, which began July 1. Cigarran is the former president and CEO of...
Transparency advocates would like to see consumers use the Internet to find information about doctors and hospitals, but some medical students who publicize their private lives through social networking Web sites might be grateful that their...
