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- November 14, 2013
North Carolina’s newest medical school focuses on rural
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreCampbell University President Jerry Wallace had been waiting for this moment for four years. “There it is,” he said. “The beautiful Leon Levine Hall of Medical Science. It’s already working to make a difference in our state.” Read the full story here.
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Clinical management apps: Creating partnerships between providers and patients
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreClinical Management Apps: Creating Partnerships Between Providers and Patients
- November 14, 2013
Reflecting on health reform: A tale of two IT procurements
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreLast week, the president of the United States, the most powerful person on earth, the man whose finger rests on the nuclear button, struck a bold blow for . . . procurement reform? “There are a whole range of things that we’re going to need to do once we...
- November 14, 2013
CMS unveils tool allowing researchers to access federal healthcare data
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreHealth services researchers eager for cheaper, timelier and more accessible federal healthcare data had reason to celebrate Tuesday, when the CMS unveiled a tool to make such information much more readily available. Read the full article here.
- November 14, 2013
Aligning Federal and State efforts on payment reform
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreAligningFederal and State Efforts on Payment Reform
- November 14, 2013
Health overhaul debate snags compounding bill
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreA year after a meningitis outbreak from contaminated pain injections killed at least 64 people and sickened hundreds, Congress is ready to increase federal oversight over compounding pharmacies that custom-mix medications. Read the full story here.
- November 14, 2013
Poorer women delay examination of breast lumps, study suggests
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreYounger women with limited finances are more likely than others to delay seeking medical attention after finding an abnormality in their breast, according to a new study. The study of nearly 600 women recently diagnosed with breast cancer suggested that strategies to improve early diagnosis of breast cancer should...
- November 14, 2013
F.D.A. ruling would all but eliminate trans fats
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreThe Food and Drug Administration proposed measures on Thursday that would all but eliminate artery-clogging, artificial trans fats from the food supply, the culmination of three decades of effort by public health advocates to get the government to take action against them. Artificial trans fats — a major contributor...
- November 14, 2013
6 Reasons why Clinicians like vendor-neutral archives
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreMany hospital leaders already support the use of vendor-neutral archives, which allow images and documents to be stored in a standardized format so they are accessible to a variety of systems, as they often lead to cost savings and increased institutional efficiency. Clinicians see advantages in VNA technology in...
- November 14, 2013
Data breach at North Country Hospital Due to PHI on “retired” laptop
By Bridgette Olson on November 14, 2013Read moreNorth Country Hospital in Newport, Vt., has alerted patients to a data breach resulting from a former hospital employee having possession of a retired laptop containing patients’ health information. Hospital officials believe the former employee has the ability to access the password-protected information, and have demanded the employee return...