Akron General Health System has agreed to deploy MyChoice — the subscription health information service of My LifePlan Inc. — at its four emergency departments in Northeast Ohio.It’s the first hospital system to adopt the service designed to speak for subscribers during medical emergencies launched by My LifePlan soon after it started in 2006. Based [...]

Working in a darkroom brought health care into focus for Vincent J. McCorkle.When he got his start in the industry years ago developing X-rays, McCorkle got to see the behind-the-scenes workings of a hospital and its employees.”In the darkroom, I really had a sense of how the organization worked,” he said. [...]

Akron General Health System is acquiring a cancer treatment center from the region’s largest urology practice.The health system announced on Wednesday that it is buying Physicians Urology’s outpatient prostate cancer treatment center on West Exchange Street near the hospital campus, effective Aug. 1.Under the deal, Akron General will contract with the 12-physician practice to staff [...]

When Stow paramedics need critical information about a patient, they’ll soon be able to put a finger on it within seconds.Stow and Akron General Health System are participating in a program called MyChoice that lets customers store their health data and desires for life-sustaining treatments on a secure Internet site.My LifePlan Inc. of Ravenna is [...]

Akron General Health System has hired the chief executive of Sisters of Providence Health System in Springfield, Mass., to replace Alan Bleyer, who left last June to spend more time with his family.Vincent J. McCorkle will take over as Akron General’s president and CEO on July 1.“Vince McCorkle is an outstanding and highly experienced healthcare [...]

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has made its first round of research and development grants: $680 million to eight projects ranging from a contact lens embedded with a sensor that measures blood glucose levels to a polymer platform for drug-eluting prosthetic devices.

Despite a weak economy, high unemployment and ongoing stories about the federal corruption probe of Cuyahoga County government, a poll shows voters overwhelmingly approve the renewal of an upcoming human services levy, which, in part, would fund MetroHealth Medical Center, WKYC-TV reported.

Less than 24 hours before Audrey Nichols was scheduled to undergo a cardiac stress test at a local community hospital, she received a phone message telling her to bring along payment for her portion of the bill. The amount: $2,191.39. Nichols ended up paying $600 after shopping around.

A merger feasibility study committee unanimously approved a report that recommends merging the Akron Health Department and the Summit County Health District, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

A union leader at Trumbull Memorial Hospital told the Warren Tribune Chronicle on Thursday his members aren’t ”overly excited” about the prospect of Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services buying Trumbull parent Forum Health, which is reorganizing in bankruptcy court.