Shawn Rhea September 28, 2009 Early this month, Loyola University Health System took its incinerator offline just days before the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule that will require medical-waste processors to make expensive upgrades that further reduce incinerator emissions. ... FULL STORY
Joe Carlson September 28, 2009 If that fetal heart monitor is giving your biomedical equipment staff headaches, experts say the problem could be a common computer virus. ... FULL STORY
September 28, 2009 The House voted 406-18 to approve an emergency measure that would prevent certain Medicare beneficiaries from facing increases in their 2010 Medicare Part B premiums. The bill was introduced in anticipation of a Part B premium increase that's expected next year for nearly 30% of Medicare seniors... ... FULL STORY
September 28, 2009 St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers, based in Beech Grove, Ind., is resuming construction of a new $265 million inpatient-bed tower on its far South Side Indianapolis campus. The project was slowed considerably last March and the sputtering economy was cited as the reason. “We’re a... ... FULL STORY
Vince Galloro September 28, 2009 State and local health agencies must develop protocols that guide providers on how to allocate scarce resources during public health crises, such as terrorist attacks or pandemics, the Institute of Medicine said in a new report to HHS, which commissioned the study. ... FULL STORY
Shawn Rhea September 28, 2009 Early this month, Loyola University Health System took its incinerator offline just days before the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule that will require medical-waste processors to make expensive upgrades that further reduce incinerator emissions. ... FULL STORY
Rebecca Vesely September 28, 2009 Health insurers, lawmakers and the CMS are accusing one another of playing politics with Medicare beneficiaries. ... FULL STORY
Matthew DoBias and Jennifer Lubell September 28, 2009 A divide concerning the number of uninsured under a reformed healthcare system and related reductions in federal payments to hospitals for treating them entered the political fray last week. ... FULL STORY
Gregg Blesch September 28, 2009 While the president and his allies in Congress attempt to remake the healthcare landscape, the president’s antitrust enforcers are contemplating the first substantial rewrite of their guidebook on mergers since 1992. ... FULL STORY
Joseph Conn September 28, 2009 Computermaker Dell and healthcare information technology outsourcing company Perot Systems Corp., which announced a joint marketing alliance in April, are taking the relationship a giant step further with Dell's $3.9 billion offer to acquire Perot. ... FULL STORY
September 28, 2009 Tenet Healthcare Corp. is taking a different tack in its refinancing journey, and it will even save the company some money on interest costs. ... FULL STORY
Vince Galloro September 28, 2009 Fred Walters has seen firsthand how the financial collapse that began a year ago has affected physicians. ... FULL STORY
Andis Robeznieks September 28, 2009 While going though the interview process for the president and CEO positions at Denver's St. Anthony Central Hospital two years ago, Peter Makowski says he kept visiting the institution's Web site to look at the drawings of the new $750 million replacement hospital that Centura Health was proposing... ... FULL STORY
Joe Carlson September 28, 2009 If that fetal heart monitor is giving your biomedical equipment staff headaches, experts say the problem could be a common computer virus. ... FULL STORY
September 28, 2009 “(Illegal immigrants) are not eligible for Medicaid, but many still get sick and many get care, often in emergency rooms. … Should we ... force people to prove citizenship in emergency rooms? That's illegal, for good reason. Make verification requirements so onerous that not a single... ... FULL STORY
Tim Myers September 28, 2009 Radiology is at a crossroads. We will either band together as professionals and colleagues or set in motion the self-destruction that begins with personal attacks and cannibalism. While I strongly endorse and applaud the American College of Radiology's new Task Force on Relations between... ... FULL STORY
September 28, 2009 It was inspiring to read in Modern Healthcare about those who, having lost loved ones to medical errors, have since dedicated themselves to advocating on behalf of better patient safety (“From tragedy to advocacy,” Sept. 7, p. 6). There is certainly much work to be done. ... FULL STORY
September 28, 2009 “If you are purposely going abroad for medical care, and paying to do so, obviously they're going to treat you like royalty. If, on the other hand, you're in an emergency situation, some countries will do a wallet biopsy. … We have clinics, particularly in Mexico, where an American... ... FULL STORY
September 28, 2009 “Hatch Amendment #F7 to America's Healthy Future Act of 2009: Description: The Chairman's Mark on page 201 provides certain transition relief for health insurance plans maintained in the 17 states in which healthcare was the least affordable for the year ending Dec. 31, 2012, as determined... ... FULL STORY
September 28, 2009 An eyetooth, indeed. Doctors at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami have pulled off the first operation in the U.S. in which a blind woman, Sharron Thornton, had her sight restored by embedding a lens in one of her teeth and then implanting the tooth in her eye. ... FULL STORY
September 28, 2009 Lawmakers long have debated imposing a soda tax to help curb obesity rates, but now one city is about to get serious—by taxing retailers that sell sugary drinks. ... FULL STORY
