HHS awards $17.5 million to expand electronic medical record use
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Haymarket Media
Oct 12, 2005
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded three contracts valued at $17.5 million to three private groups to broaden the use of electronic medical records. Long-term care is one of the provider...
Longer breaks between shifts help nurses recover better, study says
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Jun 18, 2015
Allowing nurses longer rest and recovery periods between shifts may improve their sleep, ability to work, and overall well-being, a new study says.
Weems: Berwick and Blumenthal would be information technology ‘dream team’
Apr 07, 2010
The potential combination of Donald Berwick as administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and David Blumenthal as national coordinator of health information technology would be a healthcare...
Providers rip report on Five-Star ratings
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Brett Bakshis
Mar 01, 2010
An analysis of the government’s Five-Star Quality Rating System for nursing homes by USA Today drew a sharp rebuke from providers.
Opinions on healthcare remain steady, seniors lean towards support
Dec 23, 2009
Recent polls show opinions concerning healthcare reform have remained steady since April, despite the political imbroglio that the issue has wrought on the country.
Nurses often left out of error disclosure process, report finds
Jan 20, 2009
Nurses frequently do not play a role in telling patients about serious medical errors, according to a recently released Joint Commission report.
Nursing home sexuality shouldn’t be taboo, researchers say
Nov 18, 2008
Aging experts at Kansas State University have been researching ways to make nursing home staff more comfortable with their residents’ sexuality.
States fail to report troubled Medicaid providers to OIG, report finds
Aug 14, 2008
States are not reporting those Medicaid providers that have been suspended or excluded from their state programs, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector...
Nursing homes often fail to report abuse, OIG report asserts
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Elizabeth Newman
Jun 12, 2019
Abuse or neglect, including among skilled nursing facility beneficiaries, resulted in around 1 in 5 high-risk hospital emergency room Medicare claims in 2016, a new government report finds.
MS drug Tecfidera approved, awaited
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Kevin McCaffrey
May 01, 2013
The approval of Biogen Idec’s MS therapy Tecfidera follows months of breathless Wall Street hype, and it looks like doctors are psyched for the drug, too. In a MedLIVE PULSE survey conducted by WorldOne...