Baystate Health outlines layoffs, cuts, outsourcing | MassLive.com
Baystate Health eliminated 323 jobs at the end of September to help close a persistent budget gap caused by inadequate Medicaid funding. It was the largest reduction in workforce at Baystate in its recent history.
Former employees say Labor Dept. investigating fraud at Tenn. medical center | (Chattanooga, Tenn.) Times Free Press
The U.S. Department of Labor has launched a criminal investigation against former Hutcheson Medical Center administrators, according to multiple ex-employees.
L.A. County plans to make hospitals report superbug infections | Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles County will require hospitals to report when patients are infected with a highly lethal superbug, health officials said Thursday.
Banner Health hack triggers civil lawsuits | Arizona Republic
Banner Health’s admission this summer that a large-scale cyberattack may have compromised the records of 3.7 million people has been followed by a flurry of civil lawsuits from a doctor and patients who allege harm from the data breach.
Urology data breach affected 300,000 | Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Central Ohio Urology Group put a number to the size of its data breach in August—300,000. The urology group's breach is the eighth-largest in the country this year among healthcare providers.
For second time, Arkansas medical board OKs telemedicine rule | ArkansasNews.com
The Arkansas State Medical Board voted Thursday to approve a proposed regulation concerning the online transferal of patients’ medical records after two legislative panels previously declined to review the rule. The Medical Board voted in June to approve the proposed regulation and one other, both governing the use of audio and video technology to care for patients. But in July the House and Senate committees on public health declined to review the proposals after Bradley Phillips, a lobbyist for Dallas-based telemedicine company Teladoc, spoke against them.
Former Bergen medical device CEO to be retried for fleecing investors | The Trentonian
Convicted tax evader Thomas Fagan is being forced to retire after allegedly bilking medical device investors out of $444,000.
Whether it’s Trump or Clinton, biotech is in for ‘a moment of change’ | Stat
This November, the biotech industry faces an awkward decision: Donald Trump, whose policy stances have proven unpredictable; or Hillary Clinton, who can scythe drug company stock prices with a single tweet.
Most U.S. dermatologists receive industry money | Reuters
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. dermatologists received payments worth a collective $34 million from drug companies in 2014, according to a new analysis of a public database.
