Stephanie Bouchard
When Kris Appel, founder and president of Encore Path, a Baltimore-based medical device company, looked for investors to help her get the company’s debut product, a stroke rehabilitation device called Tailwind, on the market, she turned to angel investors, individuals who invest their own money in entrepreneurial endeavors.
As accounts of violence against healthcare workers continue, a report by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) released late last year underscores the evolving nature of the problem and possible inroads to curtailing it.
As hospitals face more scrutiny from the federal government, it's a good idea for them to audit or assess their compliance learned a group of finance managers Wednesday during an education session offered by the Maine chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it will invest $156 million over two years to fight Alzheimer's disease and its ripple effects.
The Measures Application Partnership (MAP) has submitted its recommendations on the improvement and coordination of care by post-acute care and long-term care providers to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services needs to strengthen its oversight capacity, according to the Office of Inspector General's annual summary of management and performance challenges facing the agency.
Job growth in the healthcare sector will outpace other sectors through 2020 predicts new statistics released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The panel of physicians that makes recommendations to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services about the relative value of physician services has voted to add two new members to its current roster of 29.
The aging of the country's population and the rise in healthcare costs will continue to be the nation's biggest economic challenge concluded the Congressional Budget Office's latest economic outlook, released Tuesday.
A new study finds that state legislated caps on mandatory overtime of nurses' work hours work as intended but the study's authors say the need for legislating such caps would be moot if facility leaders were progressive in their thinking about handling nurse scheduling.