Tennessee news and information

Not-for-profit Billings (Mont.) Clinic and for-profit, Brentwood, Tenn.-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners have formed a joint venture that seeks to draw on the operational expertise and financial resources of both organizations.
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GOP lawmakers are digging their teeth into the Obama administration's efforts to solicit help and donations for private groups working to enroll Americans in new coverage under the reform law.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.—Mountain States Health Alliance, which operates 12 hospitals in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, will join Vanderbilt University Medical Center's network of affiliated hospitals. As part of the affiliation, the two organizations will collaborate on...
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Mountain States Health Alliance, which operates 12 hospitals in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, will join Vanderbilt University Medical Center's network of affiliated hospitals.
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Dr. Steven Adkins was in Target on a Saturday night when his cell phone rang. One of his patients had finally broken out in the rash that Adkins was expecting. The patient sent a photo of the rash to Adkins, he diagnosed her with shingles and called in a prescription for her.
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A bipartisan Senate immigration bill could boost the nation's healthcare workforce in addition to expanding coverage to millions of newly legal residents.
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Bills that championed telemedicine were introduced at state legislatures across the country this session. Several states, including neighboring Mississippi, passed and enacted the bills into law, most of which require insurers to cover telemedicine services to some extent, but in Tennessee, similar...
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The method for mixing drugs that led to 53 deaths in an outbreak of fungal meningitis in 20 states last fall is inherently risky, but seldom-used by hospitals.
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Five Tennessee healthcare organizations have joined a pilot project to exchange information using the federally developed Direct secure-messaging protocol.
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A Republican congresswoman from Tennessee has introduced legislation that would exempt solo practitioners and physicians nearing retirement from the upcoming Medicare reimbursement cuts for physicians who do not meet meaningful-use requirements for electronic health-record systems under the...
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