About two years ago, lightning struck for SafeMed, a healthcare analytics software firm, when representatives from Google strolled by the fledgling company’s booth at a trade show.
HHS’ announcement of a new infection-control action plan last week is a step in the right direction but by itself is not enough to motivate hospitals to reduce infection rates, industry executives said.
The CMS will allow Det Norske Veritas Healthcare to accredit U.S. hospitals, a move that puts the company in a small group of deeming organizations and could bring an increased focus on international standards, most notably ISO 9001, to hospitals...
HHS’ announcement of a new infection-control action plan last week is a step in the right direction but by itself is not enough to motivate hospitals to reduce infection rates, industry executives said.
More board leadership is required if hospitals are going to increase their level of performance on quality measures enough to qualify as a top facility as named by the Leapfrog Group, officials for the employer-backed quality group said.
Fearful investors, faltering banks and wrangling over a $700 billion bailout to halt a worsening financial crisis left most healthcare borrowers with expensive and sorely limited options last week.
Two new reports indicating that employers are offloading more healthcare costs to workers have industry executives and experts concerned that more Americans will not be able to pay their medical bills or will forgo care, thus exacerbating the...
Community Health Systems, Empire Health Services and Providence Health & Services sure agree a lot for parties who had battled in court, however temporarily.
When more than 1,400 workers at two Palo Alto, Calif., hospitals were preparing to vote Sept. 11 on whether to join a new union, administrators there tried to make sure employees knew their prospective local union could be on the verge of implosion...
Mark Robitaille is taking over as president and chief executive officer at Martin Memorial Health Systems, Stuart, Fla., inheriting a long-running legal dispute involving the hospital-funded deportation of a Guatemalan national that may have...
When Julio Lozano, 36, came from Sonora, Mexico, to Houston in 2006 for a one-year fellowship in hand microsurgery and upper-extremity surgery, his plan, he says, was to return to Mexico to practice. Today, Lozano is a surgeon with the...
About two years ago, lightning struck for SafeMed, a healthcare analytics software firm, when representatives from Google strolled by the fledgling company’s booth at a trade show.
One of the first pieces of information Google Health asks users to submit is their date of birth. Beyond that, the questions get deeper into personal information and medical history.
2002 was a terrible year for me, personally and professionally, because the owners of the 140-year-old hospital where I’d worked for two decades decided to close it.
As the chief financial officer of a “tweener hospital”—too large to qualify for critical-access hospital status but too small to receive adequate Medicare payment, I am well-aware of what it means to care for every patient, regardless of their...
