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As an anesthesia resident, Dr. Peter Fleischut approached leadership at New York-Presbyterian Hospital with a proposal: Why not create a formal forum for his fellow residents to join in patient-safety initiatives?
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When Anuj Desai thinks about information technology interoperability, it's not in the common healthcare context of barriers to health data exchange, but rather, with a view to its infinite possibilities.
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Henry Thompson faced a wide range of challenges when he first took over as CEO of the Community Health Center of Richmond, a federally qualified health center on New York's Staten Island.
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The New York Genome Center celebrated the official opening Thursday of its $54 million, 170,000-square-foot facility in Manhattan.
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On the heels of the Institute of Medicine calling U.S. cancer care “increasingly chaotic and costly,” Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is starting an alliance of community cancer providers. It named Hartford HealthCare, a five-hospital system in Connecticut, as the...
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The New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. has awarded IBM a one-year, $10 million contract to build an analytics platform to improve patient care and operational efficiency.
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Four upstate New York regional health information organizations on Friday announced new connectivity allowing “secure” exchange of electronic medical records between healthcare professionals in Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, and Albany.
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New York is requiring anyone who might come in contact with patients at hospitals and other healthcare facilities to get a vaccine or wear masks during the upcoming flu season, an ambitious effort to control the flu in the places it is known to spread.
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A report released Thursday by the Center for Studying Health System Change suggests that New York state, particularly Long Island, will not see much in the way of health insurance expansion in the coming months and years.
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An internal investigation by the Veterans Affairs Department has found that one of its hospitals in Jackson, Miss., did not have enough doctors in its primary-care unit, resulting in nurse practitioners' handling far too many patients, numerous complaints about delayed care and repeated violations...
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