July 23NASHUA Dr. John Gorman envisions the day when doctors go back to doing house calls under a new pilot program at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center.The program was created by the state to lower the cost of health care in New Hampshire, and SNHMC is one of five hospitals that has agreed to [...]
July 19South Shore Hospital reported that backup computer files containing personal, health and financial information for 800,000 patients and employees over the last 14 years may have been lost by a professional data management company, which it declined to name.The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format [...]
June 27From improper billing of Medicare to paying doctors to get patients, South Florida cases played key roles in federal findings of fraud at Columbia/HCA, where Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott served as CEO.In Fort Lauderdale, Michael Marine, a manager specializing in reimbursement, filed a whistle-blower lawsuit in 1997 saying Columbia/HCA had improperly made more [...]
INDIANAPOLIS Advocates say a decision by Indiana’s human services agency to cut a home health care program for aged and disabled people will cost the state about $4 for each $1 the belt-tightening saves.The Indiana Family and Social Services told Area Agencies on Aging that a 15 percent cut in funding for the program [...]
May 20Culpeper Regional Hospital announced Friday that FamilyCare Home Health, its facility located on Laurel Street, will consolidate with the University of Virginia’s Continuum Home Health Care.Effective July 1, CRH will no longer provide direct home health and hospice services. But the hospital and U.Va. Medical Center have made a commitment to retain all FamilyCare [...]
May 5BECKLEY For Mary Ann Vannatter, a nurse recruiter for VA Medical Center in Beckley, it’s personal.In fact, it’s personal for most nurses at the hospital, she said."I wanted to work at the VA hospital because my dad was a Korea Conflict veteran," Vannatter said. "I had always wanted to work for the VA."My [...]
CINCINNATI, OH (MARKET WIRE) 05/03/10 Teresa L. Marshall, RN, BES, CCM, has joined Compass Clinical Consulting (http://www.compass-clinical.com) as a Senior Consultant. Marshall, a seasoned nurse and experienced case manager, will expand Compass’s team of clinical operations consultants.CASE MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENTS DELIVER BETTER PATIENT EXPERIENCE Improving case management is a proven way to [...]
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., April 23, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Patient Access Solutions, Inc. (Pink Sheets:PASO), a provider of digital pen and paperwork technologies that provide the healthcare industry a graceful migration to Electronic Medical Records (EMR), today announced that Paradigm Rehab and Nursing has signed a contract to use the PASHealth D-PAS, digital pen and paper, [...]
Apr. 19A new tax on Wisconsin’s rural hospitals will offset a state Medicaid cut and increase incentives for doctors and other health care providers to work in rural areas."It would have been a world of hurt if this didn’t go through," said Jeremy Normington, chief executive officer of Moundview Memorial Hospital in Friendship, which lost [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, March 22 /PRNewswire/ QRS Diagnostic, proven leader in innovative design and development of PC-based medical devices, announces its latest release of Office Medic? (version 5.3) is compatible with Windows 7 (64-bit) and Vista (64-bit) operating systems. Office Medic? is in use by over 10,000 customers worldwide and has become a popular link between [...]
