Leonard Langman, MD, a neurologist from Brooklyn, N.Y., has pled guilty to participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare and several other federal programs, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. According to court documents, Dr. Langman…
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Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Aventura (Fla.) Hospital and Medical Center has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.
Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has announced it will host a five-part webinar series on electronic medical record technology and achieving compliance of government meaningful use criteria.
Zoll Medical Corp. has received an FDA warning letter for allegedly failing to validate the battery life of its automated external defibrillators, according to the warning letter.
The American Pain Society lauded a call for multidisciplinary pain care and improved pain training for all clinicians in a recent Institute of Medicine report, according to a release by the society.
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The world market for electron and scanning probe microscopes will exceed $2.1 billion a year by 2017, due in part to increasing demand in the healthcare sector for precise, high-resolution imagery, according to a release by MarketResearch.com.
A new study shows massage therapy can help relieve some people who suffer from chronic back pain, but benefits lasted no more than a year, according to a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Research findings from Lifespan health system in Providence, R.I., showed that a molecular method detects significantly more patients with positive cases of C. diff than other methods, according to a health system news release.
Research findings suggest approximately 40 percent of patient days of fluoroquinolone antibiotics are unnecessary, according to a study published in BMJ Infectious Diseases.
Research findings suggest that critical access hospitals, compared to their counterparts, featured fewer clinical capabilities and worse performance on quality measures, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.