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John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio. Areas of expertise include: ehealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, Windows Sharepoint Services and project management. ...

Less than half of hospitals say care quality is key to judging CEO performance.

Several New England hospitals were named to the 2009 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Hospital Honor Roll, which recognizes adult, acute care hospitals for performance among the top 25 percent of those measured, nationally.

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The American Nurses Association has created a review board to screen proposals from healthcare researchers who want to access its National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators. The NDNQI program collects ...

ZOLL Technology a Key Part of "Resuscitation Bundle" Improvement Report.

Brian Ahier's views and information on Government 2.0, Health Information Technology and reforming our healthcare system.

News about brain health is published every day covering topics such as memory loss, Alzheimer's disease, treatments, risk factors, diagnostics, and discoveries across the field. Some of the news is objectively reported, some is over-sensationalized, and some is intentionally misleading. ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. and BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 2, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The nursing shortage in the United States has left many hospitals scrambling to find ways to minimize the impact of having fewer nurses left to care for an increasing patient population. ...

Despite challenging economic and credit conditions, bond ratings at 20 nonprofit hospitals and health systems have been upgraded since late 2008, Moody’s Investors Service said in a new report that identifies common factors that have contributed to their success. ...

Government health Web sites outperformed private sector Web sites, according to a healthcare benchmark report released by ForeSee Results. The report surveyed nearly 40,000 visitors to healthcare Web sites during the month of October. ...

Medicare and Medicaid underpayments to the nation’s hospitals relative to the cost of care rose more than eight-fold, from $3.8 billion in 2000 to $32.4 billion in 2008, the American Hospital Association reported in its latest release of annual reimbursement fact sheets.