A survey of more than 1,500 opinion leaders from the healthcare industry, academia and government found that an overwhelming majority of the leaders believe nurses should have more influence in health reform.
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The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing has elected Linda Brixey, RN, as its national president-elect for 2010-2011, according to an AAACN news release.
The election of Republican Scott Brown, an opponent of the Democrats' health reform bill, as the new U.S. senator from Massachusetts has left Congressional Democrats divided on how to complete the reform process, according to a report by the New…
The Glaucoma Research Foundation has named January as Glaucoma Awareness Month, according to the GRF.
Medline Industries, the nation's largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare products, has been named the exclusive distributor for ClearCount Medical Solutions' SmartWand-DTXTM and SmartSponge System, the only FDA-cleared systems using radio-frequency identification to both count and locate surgical…
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Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal brought the first HIPAA action under the HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in a suit against Health Net of Connecticut, according to report by AHA News Now.
Journal Square Surgical Center in Jersey City, N.J., has named Jeffrey Shanton as its new director of business development, according to a JSSC news release.
In spite of recent reports that showed vertebroplasty was as effective as placebo, the Society of Interventional Radiology has come out in support of the procedure as an effective procedure for properly selected patients, as the society says was not…
The California Department of Managed Health Care has set maximum wait times for HMO patients who request appointments with physicians and is the first state to do so, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
Reliant Healthcare Partners expressed its concerns over plans to build 13 rehabilitation hospitals across Texas because the health system has recruited physician investors for the projects, according to a report in The Dallas Morning News.