Illinois Valley residents fretted on social media over how to meet their healthcare needs and where to seek fallback options, now the hospital's doors are closing with a week's notice.
UPMC said Friday it will eliminate regular hospital beds at UPMC Lock Haven Hospital, but will continue providing emergency care at the location under new Pennsylvania rules intended to spur innovation and preserve access that might otherwise be lost.
To speed up transfers to mental healthcare and reduce the strain on ERs, Massachusetts has contracted with four agencies to provide intensive counseling at home as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.
The growing use of healthcare mobile applications and websites—and the associated use of online tracking technologies—raises privacy concerns under HIPAA that developers of such applications and healthcare organizations should keep in mind.
The CDC is in 'a moment of peril' and a 'strong, effective, and more accountable' agency is an urgent matter of national security, according to a new report from the Center for Strategic & International Studies.