Health Strategies & Solutions, Inc. President Alan Zuckerman discusses the increase in competition in healthcare. If competition is still a dirty word in your organization, you're behind the eight-ball in today's healthcare landscape, Zuckerman says.
During a recent forum held in Palm Beach County, FL, healthcare and business leaders, politicians and doctors came together to come up with changes to cover more of the uninsured, to get more people into primary care and to improve working conditions for doctors.
A numbers of patient advocates, including physicians who coach people on how to get better care, are teaching patients how to communicate better with their doctors. This story provides a list of "do's and don'ts."
The Bair Paws hospital gown by Arizant Healthcare not only provides comfort but also an adjustable warmth system that can help prevent hypothermia in many surgical procedures. The single-use gown offers wrap-around coverage with soft, thick material.
A new report shows the increasing diversity of three of Maryland's largest counties is exacerbating already serious health disparities within communities.
In an effort to cut costs, the University of Texas Medical Branch may stop offering cancer care to indigent and undocumented immigrants. Its Cancer Patients Acceptance Committee has been studying the issue, but implementing the policy, but it raises obvious ethical questions, says hospital representatives.
Thirteen hospitals in Palm Beach County, FL, support a regional call schedule designed to direct emergency patients to specialists quickly. The plan, however, could be blocked by doctors or a state regulator with final say.
Four months after returning to Minneapolis to head Fairview Health Services-Minnesota's third-largest health system-CEO Mark Eustis explains his big plans for the organization. Fairview owns seven hospitals, including the University of Minnesota Medical Center, and a chain of primary care clinics. A couple major projects that Eustis has inherited in this new role include building a new hospital and potentially buying a medical group.
The case against Medtronic that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court has wide-ranging implications for patients, doctors and device makers. Medtronic asserts that because the FDA has a rigorous approval process for medical devices, federal law "preempts" it from state claims relating to a device's safety and effectiveness. Lower courts have agreed.
Cash-strapped Mercy Jeannette Hospital in Jeannette, PA, is shutting down its obstetrics department and the adult inpatient rehabilitation and behavioral health units. The units will be moved to Excela Health System's Westmoreland hospital.
