Current Hospitals and Medical Centers News Today
Funding For Electronic Medical Records Expected As Early As May, Already Stimulating Business
Modern Healthcare: Funding to help doctors and hospitals buy electronic medical records could begin to flow through the Medicare program as early as May 2011, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services official said Wednesday. But, the final shape of the program remains unclear as CMS works to implement 800 pages of new regulations. "We're now working toward actually making all of this a ...
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:06:30 -0700
Hospitals That Won't Induce Labor Want State Help
Should lawmakers pay hospitals more for refusing to induce early labor, which reduces neonatal costs and harm to mothers? Or should the state be kept out of the private decisions of patients and their physicians?
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:29 -0700
End delays for medical marijuana
Enact medical marijuana law now.
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:41:04 -0700
VA: 3 positive tests of vets at St. Louis clinic
Three veterans treated at the St. Louis VA Medical Center's dental clinic have tested positive for hepatitis and further testing will be necessary to determine if inadequately sterilized dental equipment is to blame, VA officials said Friday.
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:46:15 -0700
US Hospitals to Discuss Inbound and Domestic Medical Tourism at Los Angeles Conference in September
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwire - July 29, 2010) - Medical Tourism is a multibillion dollar industry with millions of patients traveling each year to different countries or regions for medical care. One of the most overlooked aspects of medical tourism is domestic medical tourism, often referred to as regional medical tourism, where patients do not leave their country but travel to another ...
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:19:08 -0700
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