Backers of the Ohio Third Frontier are mounting a campaign to market the state's biggest-ever economic development program to voters who will be asked to renew and expand the program in May.
Bloom Health Corp., a Minneapolis-based start-up that advises companies, employees and consumers on health care issues, is seeking a total of $5 million through the sale of equity and warrants and/or options, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.
The agreement means that people who hold insurance from Medical Mutual of Ohio, the state's largest insurer, will be able to continue obtaining service at Premier-owned health centers.
Health care CIO Dr. John Halamka outlines his New Year's resolutions, which includes overcoming the fact that many clinicians do not want an electronic health records and "want to be implemented last in any rollout."
If you're worth more than $3.5 million, the time to die is apparently 2010. The estate tax is due to expire Jan. 1, 2010, and go back into effect on that date in 2011.
Cardinal Health is thinking about selling some CareFusion stock, sending the California spinoff's stock down on Wednesday.
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A major study published in the most recent issue of Journal of the American Medical Association or JAMA, criticized the FDA for using shoddy, incomplete research to approve high-risk heart devices.
Live Web chats are part of an interactive media tool set that is getting out the message of Akron Children's Hospital, boosting its profile as a pediatric expert and leading to more specialized surgeries for patients who come from as far away as California.
MAX Endoscopy Inc. in Macedonia, Ohio, has received a $250,000 investment commitment from JumpStart Inc., the venture development organization in Cleveland. MAX Endoscopy will use the money to formalize sales and marketing efforts for its fiber-optic technology that is used with endoscopes to treat hemorrhoids.
Conflicting reports show that higher hospital costs may or may not result in better outcomes for patients. Sometimes, cost depends on the kinds of patients a hospital services. Sometimes it all depends on how data is construed and interpreted.
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
A state representative plans to introduce in early 2010 legislation that would increase the punishment for assaulting nurses in the workplace.
While EMRs can help clinicians within the same practice, "they may have unintended consequences for care coordination, such as creating information overload that complicates providers' efforts to discern key clinical information," the Commonwealth Fund says.
University of Cincinnati laryngologist Dr. Sid Khosla and other researchers will use a 5-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue interdisciplinary partnerships studying the causes of severe voice disorders and the most effective ways to treat them.
The Food and Drug Administration, urged by Congress, has already taken a harder line on 510(k)s. Which makes it only a matter of time before the agency, wary of another Sprint Fidelis debacle, sets its sights on PMA supplements.
Dr. Firouz Daneshgari and his colleagues at University Hospitals Case Medical Center are creating an urological institute -- a cross-disciplinary family of eight centers from female pelvic surgery to oncology to men's health that will work together to help patients deal with urological problems that can rob them of quality of life, especially as they get older.