By The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) | August 02, 2013
Expenditures from the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund have more than doubled to $32 million in the last five years as new demands have come from telemedicine for hospitals and clinics and broadband Internet for schools and libraries. FULL STORY »
By Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press
| July 13, 2013
Dr. Howard Novick winces as he recalls treating two and three women a week for infections and complications from botched abortions. It was the early 1970s, before the procedure was legalized, and the experience persuaded him to devote his life to this area of medicine. FULL STORY »
By Kelly P. Kissel / Associated Press | June 29, 2013
Hobby Lobby and a sister company will not be subject to $1.3 million in daily fines beginning Monday for failing to provide access to certain forms of birth control through its employees' health care plans, a judge ruled Friday. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | June 22, 2013
| Print Magazine
The American Osteopathic Association named Adrienne White-Faines to succeed John Crosby as executive director. Crosby is retiring after serving as the Chicago-based association's executive director since 1997. White-Faines, 53, is scheduled to join the AOA next month. She previously worked... FULL STORY »
Eastar Health System in Muskogee, Okla., has named Anthony Young its CEO, effective June 17. Young replaces former CEO Kevin Fowler, who resigned, effective April 1, in order to relocate closer to family. FULL STORY »
Though hospitals tend not to encourage the practice, last week's monster tornado in central Oklahoma proved once again that medical centers become irresistible gathering places for fearful and dispossessed residents during large-scale natural... FULL STORY »
When thousands of Gulf Coast residents fled Hurricane Katrina, many of their paper-based medical records were soaked or blown to the winds. Ever since, proponents of electronic health-record systems and health... FULL STORY »
By Joe Carlson and Ashok Selvam | May 21, 2013
| Basic Web
Treating injuries from tornadoes is a well-established job in Oklahoma, but healthcare providers say the twister that carved a 17-mile-long path of destruction through central Oklahoma Monday produced surprising injury patterns and unusual flows of patients. FULL STORY »
An early report on Monday's tragedy in Oklahoma points to just how far this nation has come in a short time on health information exchange. FULL STORY »
By Ashok Selvam and Joe Carlson | May 20, 2013
| Basic Web
A tornado ripped through a small Oklahoma hospital Monday afternoon and rendered the facility helpless to treat victims of the widespread devastation in the area. FULL STORY »
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