CDC to change flu vaccine recommendations

Anticipated changes to the recommendations for who should get a flu vaccine will have many practices and hospitals juggling an increase in patient requests and questions. Read more

Quality measures show improvement

A new report from the Joint Commission shows that hospitals’ efforts to improve key quality scores are definitely working. Read more

Going Green With Content Management

Learn how moving towards Electronic Content Management can improve employee productivity, reduce paper, printing, and storage costs, increase security and integrate all of your business processes.

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Report: Limits to what telehealth can do

Telehealth has its place, but new research indicates it’s not a cure-all for patient interaction and education. Read more

Kids on psychotropics: A potentially fatal balancing act

A mother’s recent conviction in the death of her four-year-old daughter highlights the sometimes fine line between treating actual disorders and controlling children’s day-to-day behavior. Read more

Senate report raises questions about FDA after-market review

A new report from the Senate Finance Committee highlights a potential conflict of interest within the FDA — and the safety of one of the world’s top-selling medications. Read more

More docs-in-training: Is that good news?

In the next few years, nearly 24 medical schools will have opened their doors to students. And a debate is raging over whether that’ll help or hurt the health care field. Read more

Study sheds light on why women ignore heart attack symptoms

Here’s a scary statistic: Only 53% of women would call 911 if they had symptoms of a heart attack. Read more

Patients continue to find creative ways to injure themselves

The recent back-to-back winter storms in the Northeast came with a surprise: A spike in finger amputations. Read more

H1N1 toll: 57 million ill, nearly 12k dead….and still counting

It may have finally slowed down, but there’s no debating that the H1N1 virus took a heavy toll on the American health care system. Read more

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