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Hospital program improves antibiotic prescribing

April 17, 2013 1:47 pm by Grens, Kerry | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A quality improvement program at a single children's hospital succeeded in cutting back inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, in a new study.Researchers found within six months of ... Read more

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital enters big data market with new startup

March 2, 2012 11:28 am by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments

There are few more ubiquitous buzz phrases today in American business — and healthcare in particular — than “big data.”In healthcare, developing the analytics to draw meaningful conclusions out of ... Read more

Medicaid cuts to take toll on Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s budget

January 16, 2012 9:24 am by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments

Looming cuts to low-income healthcare assistance program Medicaid are creating budgeting challenges for administrators at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.The hospital’s $1.7 billion budget will remain flat this year and ... Read more

Cincinnati Children’s gets $12M NIH grant for migraine clinical trials

September 28, 2011 3:01 pm by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has been awarded a $12 million federal grant to conduct a clinical trial aimed at determining the best migraine-prevention treatment for children and teens.The five-year ... Read more

Cincinnati Children’s gets $2.8M grant for inner-city asthma study

July 14, 2011 2:34 pm by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a four-year, $2.8 million federal grant to participate in a national study aimed at preventing asthma in inner-city children.The asthma research is being ... Read more

A Wikipedia/Linux for global healthcare information?

September 13, 2010 6:10 pm by Thomas Lee | 0 Comments

By creating a free or "open" platform that allows people to share and analyze medical information, the system can tap the collective intelligence of the world to improve technology ... Read more

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital lands $12M for epilepsy research

August 30, 2010 3:40 pm by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has been awarded an $11.7 million grant to compare the effectiveness of the three leading medications for childhood absence epilepsy. ... Read more

GE Healthcare teams with Ohio institutions on pediatric MRI coils

July 22, 2010 5:18 pm by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments

An Aurora, Ohio subsidiary of GE Healthcare is teaming with clinicians and researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Ohio State University to find better ways to take magnetic ... Read more

Morning Read: Is telehealth’s time finally here?

May 4, 2010 8:38 am by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments

Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare: Is telehealth’s time finally here? Like many emerging technologies, it seems like we’ve been hearing about the promise ... Read more

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital gets $2.3M grant for cancer research

April 15, 2010 2:22 pm by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments

Researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have received $2.3 million in federal grants to continue research into treatments for leukemia and bone marrow failure.The two grants come from the ... Read more

Night Read (Ohio): Lowe's chooses Cleveland Clinic for heart care. Model?

March 2, 2010 9:43 pm by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments

Lowe's Companies Inc. looked at what it was paying for heart treatments across the country and didn't like what it saw, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. So the home-improvement ... Read more

Pediatric medical device group launches in Cleveland to spur development of children’s products

February 19, 2010 2:00 am by Mary Vanac | 3 Comments

Tim Moran still remembers hearing his prematurely born daughter scream when an adult-sized cannula was inserted in her mouth and taped to her face to deliver oxygen. Several years later, ... Read more

Night Read (Ohio): Cincinnati Children’s researchers help discover pathway to repair kidney damage

February 16, 2010 6:40 pm by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments

Researchers led by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Brigham & Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School have discovered a molecular pathway that works through the immune system to ... Read more

Night Read (Ohio): Tennessee hospital looks to buy Forum Health?

February 4, 2010 5:44 pm by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments

A sale of Youngstown's Forum Health, which is reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, to Nashville, Tenn., hospital system Ardent Health Services hinges on successful negotiations with unions representing about ... Read more