by Ilene MacDonald | FierceHealthcare Jan 20, 2017 10:59am Scientists worry that reports President Donald Trump may establish a panel on vaccine safety headed by longtime vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could cause some people to refuse protective immunizations, leading [...]
by Paige Minemyer | FierceHealthcare Jan 17, 2017 1:23pm As Tom Frieden, M.D., winds down his final days as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he said that future administrations should work to establish an emergency response fund [...]
by Ilene MacDonald | FierceHealthcare Jan 13, 2017 11:59am The death of a Nevada woman in September was due to a bacterial infection that was resistant to every single antibiotic in the United States. And infection-control experts are alarmed. “I think [...]
by Joanne Finnegan | FierceHealth Jan 17, 2017 11:39am In the face of the country’s opioid epidemic and a push to restrict patients’ access to addictive painkillers, the medical community is sharply divided over how to treat people with chronic pain. [...]
by Evan Sweeney | FierceHealthIT Jan 4, 2017 9:25am Healthcare is one of three industries facing the highest risk of a cyberattack in 2017, particularly as patient records and medical devices have become more interconnected. Along with the financial and energy [...]
by Paige Minemyer | FierceHealthcare Jan 3, 2017 4:00pm Bundled payments are an effective way for providers to reduce costs for joint replacements without a significant investment—but the man tapped to head the Department of Health and Human Services has vigorously [...]
by Paige Minemyer | FierceHealthcare Jan 4, 2017 1:07pm A repeal of the Affordable Care Act looms large as President Barack Obama’s time in office winds down, but even a rollback of the healthcare law is unlikely to curb all of [...]
Topped all conditions included in CMS monitoring program by Charles Bankhead Senior Associate Editor, MedPage Today January 24, 2017 HONOLULU -- Sepsis accounted for more unplanned hospital readmissions than any of the four conditions included in a national quality monitoring program, [...]
Health Chiefs Look to Integrate Four Brooklyn Hospitals Into Single Network By Camille Bautista | January 12, 2017 5:16pm | Updated on January 13, 2017 5:43pm @CamBautista / A state-commissioned study is recommending a series of changes at Brooklyn hospitals including [...]
Hospital elevator buttons carry more bacteria than toilet surfaces By Katie Sullivan Hospital Elevator Buttons Are A Hotbed For Bacteria Hospital elevators are home to more bacteria than toilet surfaces--making the high-traffic area a breeding ground for potentially dangerous [...]