One of the last undecided Democratic governors has opted to expand Medicaid. West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced his intention to urge funding of the expansion by the Democratic-led Legislature after considering it for nearly a year. FULL STORY »
The campaign to give more primary-care duties to nurse practitioners faces headwinds across the country. Physician groups continue to resist sweeping measures that would expand the allowed scope of practice for licensed nurses with advanced medical training. FULL STORY »
Legislation authorizing Medicaid expansion and imposing regional tax increases for transportation is unconstitutional, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Friday. FULL STORY »
By The (Charlottesville, Va.) Daily Progress | March 11, 2013
The University of Virginia is part of a growing trend of using videoconferencing technologies to plug crucial, and large, gaps in the state's mental healthcare infrastructure. FULL STORY »
There are blue-ribbon commissions and task forces in Virginia government that have done little more than huddle in conference rooms and pack hundreds of pages of dense bureaucratic jargon into binders set on backroom bookshelves or in forgotten archives boxes. There they gather dust for generations. FULL STORY »
Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a network of hospitals specializing in advanced-stage cancer care, has named Dr. Glen Weiss as director of clinical research, a new position. FULL STORY »
Virginia health officials will no longer provide public access to the state's hospital complaint investigations. The decision follows a story by the Associated Press that found inconsistencies in an investigation into the care of a woman at Inova Fairfax Hospital. FULL STORY »
Ed Micaletti has been named director of business process management solutions, healthcare and commercial, by Anacomp, a Chantilly, Va.-based document management and information services company. FULL STORY »
ManTech International Corp., Fairfax, Va., has completed its acquisition of fellow Fairfax-based information technology specialist ALTA Systems. FULL STORY »
The Omnicell data breach that recently forced the University of Michigan Health System to notify 4,000 patients that their data may have been exposed by the pharmacy services vendor also affects more than 64,000 patients of two health systems on the East Coast. FULL STORY »
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