Nurse gets life in prison for bleach-injection deaths

A Texas nurse was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of killing five of her patients with bleach injections. Read more

Nurse faces death penalty: Did she inject patients with bleach?

A nurse is accused of killing five of her patients by injecting bleach into their dialysis tubes. Read more

Police: Hospital employee murdered by co-worker

A hospital supervisor was robbed and stabbed more than 70 times by one of his employees, according to police. The suspect’s violent past wasn’t uncovered during his pre-employment checks. Read more

Top 10 health care stories of ’10

Here are the top 10 most read and discussed stories on HealthExecNews.com for 2010. Read more

Discharged patient commits murder-suicide — were her docs to blame?

Can doctors be held responsible for the actions of a mentally ill patient they treated four months earlier? A new court case aims to find out. Read more

• Special Report

  • Pivotal care that drastically cuts emergency room overuse

    Reducing costs is at the top of all health executives’ minds — more so now than ever before since hospitals are facing a possible 1% Medicare pay cut  for high readmission rates starting in October. So where do you begin?

    

• Sections

  • Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)
  • Health Care Bill
  • Health Care Reform
  • Healthcare Administration
  • Healthcare Fraud
  • Healthcare Management
  • Healthcare Staffing
  • HIPAA
  • HIPAA Privacy Rule
  • HIPAA Security Rule
  • HIPAA Violations
  • Hospital Management
  • Medical Coding
  • Medical Reimbursement
  • Medical Technology
  • Medicare
  • Practice Management

• Healthcare News

  • Finance
  • Healthcare Reform
  • Human Resources
  • Insurance
  • Legal & Compliance
  • Medicare/Medicaid
  • Technology

• Latest Posts

  • New approach to nursing boosts patient care
  • Does your hospital cost Medicare more? Feds are probing
  • Pivotal care that drastically cuts emergency room overuse
  • Business Intelligence for SMBs within Healthcare
  • Payback time: OIG audits uncover overpayments at 3 hospitals
  • The Physician Payment Sunshine Act: How It Affects Your Organization
  • 10 Best TV Medical Dramas of All Time
  • Healthcare data security: What it costs you
  • Eye-opening study: Do all EDs treat uninsured kids equally?
  • Coupons for medical services?

• Buyer's Guides

  • EMR: Choosing the Best System for Your Practice
  • Medical Billing: Spend Less, Collect More: Tips for Choosing a Medical Billing Service

• Advertise with us

  • Appointment setting
  • Display advertising
  • Email blasts
  • Product listing
  • Whitepaper library

• Sponsored Sections

  • Product Profiles
  • Whitepaper and Webcast Library

• Whitepapers

  • Business Intelligence for SMBs within Healthcare
  • The Physician Payment Sunshine Act: How It Affects Your Organization
  • EHR Pricing 101: What Does EHR Software Really Cost?
  • Enabling Mobility for Healthcare Professionals
  • Tracking and Reporting Health Care Professional Spend

• Product Profiles

  • Aegis Health Group
  • Alpha Systems
  • AMD Global Telemedicine
  • BryantBrown Healthcare
  • CynergisTek
  • dashboardMD
  • DIVURGENT
  • DoseMonitor
  • eProtex
  • FingerPaint
  • Health Claim Review
  • Health Language, Inc.
  • Huron Healthcare
  • imc² health & wellness
  • Integrated Healthcare Strategies
  • iTriage
  • Lewin Group
  • LexisNexis® Health Care Solutions
  • MASS™ Medical Storage
  • MDLinx
  • Nationwide Medical Billing
  • PACSHealth, LLC
  • Phreesia
  • Smartphone Pager Replacement
  • TeraMedica
  • Together Rx Access
  • Vital Images
  • Vocera

• Categories

  • Communication (187)
  • E-news Sponsored Content (179)
  • EMR & EHR – Electronic Health Records (45)
  • Ethics (252)
  • Fraud & Waste (94)
  • Health care/Treatment trends (292)
  • Healthcare Finance (146)
  • Healthcare Human Resources and Staffing News (181)
  • Healthcare Legal & Compliance (216)
  • Healthcare Reform News (59)
  • Healthcare Technology News (123)
  • Hospital Management (309)
  • In this week's e-newsletter (632)
  • Industry Spotlight (18)
  • Insurance (40)
  • Latest News & Views (644)
  • Lighter Side (21)
  • Medicare & Medicaid News (57)
  • Patient/Client Communication (343)
  • Practice Management (182)
  • Product Profile (28)
  • Special Report (90)
  • Uncategorized (5)
  • Whitepaper Offers (3)