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DENVER, July 29 /PRNewswire/ Recognizing that earlier in July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released rules outlining which health care providers will get government funding to support their implementation of electronic health record systems (EHR), leaders at the Colorado Regional Health Information [...]

FRANKLIN, Tenn.(BUSINESS WIRE) IASIS Healthcare LLC today announced that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its fiscal third quarter 2010 conference call on Thursday, August 5, 2010. The Company will release its results for the fiscal [...]

July 29RICHMONDCentra and Danville Regional Medical Center are making their cases to the Virginia Department of Health as to why Danville needs more diagnostic imaging and why each provider should be the one to provide it.The informal fact-finding conference in Henrico is under way in front of adjudication officer Doug Harris, who will advise the [...]

NATICK, Mass., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of two spinal cord stimulation (SCS) leads for use with its Precision Plus? Spinal Cord Stimulator System, the world's first rechargeable SCS device for the management of chronic pain of the trunk and/or limbs. The Linear? [...]

July 29Passavant Area Hospital’s new emergency department has officially opened.The expanded facility features 22 treatment rooms and two trauma rooms.Planning for the expansion began in 2003. Construction started in July 2008.The $16.7-million expansion has doubled the emergency department’s size to more than 25,000 square feet. It also created a lower level that is being used [...]

July 29, 2010Contact: Kate Cyrul / Bergen Kenny (Harkin) 202-224-3254Brian Weiss (Bayh) 202-224-6807Shana Marchio (Bond) 202-224-0309Harkin, Bayh, Bond Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Improve Health and Lower Health Care Costs through Medical-Legal PartnershipsWASHINGTON, D.C. -Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Kit Bond (R-MO) today introduced the bipartisan Medical-Legal Partnerships for Health Act, legislation aimed [...]

July 29LEESBURG Tampa-based Moffitt Cancer Center plans to build two new cancer-care facilities at Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Health System, Central Florida Health Alliance officials announced this morning.The partnership will bring state-of-the-art cancer care, in which Moffitt will operate in both hospitals to provide improved cancer prevention methods, improve cancer treatment [...]

National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu, has recorded 53 successful joint replacement surgeries and is aiming at 100 patients mark in 2011.Head, Accident and Emergency Unit and Coordinator of Arthroplasty Unit of the hospital, Dr. Uchenna Katchy, disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Vanguard."We have started the joint replacement programme in National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu. So [...]

TORONTO, July 29 /CNW/ – The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) is encouraged by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s announcement to expand its Emergency Room (ER) Pay for Results Program. The OHA considers this expansion a positive step forward in improving both access to care and health system accountability."Hospitals are eager to reduce wait [...]

SIMI VALLEY, Calif., July 29, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Simi Valley Hospital (SVH) has received a generous gift from two doctors who specialize in kidney disease. Dr. Kant Tucker and his wife Dr. Irma Harriman Thakkar have pledged one million dollars to Simi Valley Hospital. Hospital officials say this is the first million-dollar donation ever [...]