Jeff Lagasse
While there was just over $7.5 billion invested and raised in venture capital in 2010, between then and 2015 it spiked to around $10.5 billion.
University Hospitals in Cleveland recently became the first institution in Ohio to treat a patient using proton therapy. Their patient, a 24-year-old woman with rhabdomyosarcoma, was the first in the state to receive such care.
While most hospitals have contingency plans in place in case something happens to their electronic health records, less than three-quarters of those surveyed by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General have plans that address testing and revision procedures -- a requirement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals has come out in opposition to Question 4 on Massachusetts' November ballot, which seeks to legalize marijuana in the Commonwealth.
Hospital merger and acquisition activity swelled by 6.1 percent over 2015, according to a new analysis from strategic and financial services firm Kaufman Hall and Associates. It identified 52 hospital and health system transactions during that time, compared to 49 transactions recorded during the same period in 2015.
The owner of more than 30 Miami-area skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, a hospital administrator and a physician's assistant were charged with conspiracy, obstruction, money laundering and healthcare fraud in connection with a $1 billion scheme involving numerous Miami-based providers, the United States Department of Justice announced.
Each of the inpatient rehab facilities is operated by affiliates of HealthSouth Corp. through long-term net leases.
One in three deaths are caused by heart attacks and strokes, resulting in over $300 billion in healthcare costs each year.
Nineteen states have yet to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, and a new study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows just how much enrollment would increase if they did: 7.8 to 8.8 million, while the number of uninsured would decline between 4.1 and 5 million, the research found.
Teaching hospitals had slightly lower star ratings than non-teaching hospitals, while critical access hospitals showed high marks.