FDA Approves Nasal Naloxone To Combat Opioid Overdosing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Narcan nasal spray for sale to stop or reverse the effects of opioid overdoses, a move that was praised by health care officials.
View ArticleThe 12 Steps Health Systems Can Take to Achieve Population Health Management
For all the lip service paid to population health management, few organizations in the United States are really committed to it. Not, anyway, in the original sense of the term.
View ArticleNew Data Shows Drop In Diabetes Cases
New data released publicly today showing that significant progress has been made in the diagnosis of new cases of diabetes is good news for hospitals and health care at large. Hospitals are among the...
View ArticleWhy Treating Mental Illness is Top of Mind for Hospitals
The 2016 Environmental Scan illuminates why behavioral health matters to hospitals.
View ArticleHow to Choose the Right Care for Progressive Disease
By reducing the utilization of nonbeneficial care — care that increases costs without a concomitant increase in value — health care can move closer toward achieving the Triple Aim.
View ArticleNurse Watch: The Future of Nursing a Little Better; Praising Nursing Assistants
Here’s some news in the nursing space that caught our eyes. Watch for more Nurse Watch every Wednesday in H&HN Daily.
View ArticleDatadig: Stats on Vaccine Participation, Foodborne Disease and more
A compendium of health care statistics: Nutritional supplement leads to emergency department visits
View ArticleThe Role of the Pathologist in Value-Based Care
Pathologists' role in diagnostics, quality and patient safety.
View ArticlePediatrician's Care Coordination Effort Helps Patients With Complex Needs
Stephanie Gehres, M.D., helps kids with complex conditions and their families navigate the health care system.
View ArticleHow Academic Medical Centers Can Sustain Competitive Advantages
Success for academic medical centers will require embracing the characteristics that make them unique and the advantages those characteristics can yield.
View ArticleLooking Ahead in 2016: Top 10 Trends in Health Care
Keeping pace with local market changes will require foresight and nimble leadership. Watch for these potential change “accelerators” for 2016.
View ArticleHospitals Backing Increased Use of Opioid Antidote
Looking to quicken administration of the drug, hospitals help to get police officers trained in delivery.
View ArticleCMS Announces Participants in Next Generation of Accountable Care
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today unveiled the participants in its Next Generation accountable care organization model, which is designed for ACOs with greater experience in...
View ArticleStepping Up Against Sepsis
These hospitals have shown that a coordinated, low-cost strategy dramatically reduces infection and mortality. It’s an approach others may want to adopt.
View ArticleHospitals Offer New Twists on Services, with the Older Patient in Mind
From the emergency department to the OR, hospitals are taking a fresh approach to treating an aging population.
View ArticleWeekly Reading: Walking: Your New Prescription, Zika Confirmed in U.S., Can...
One editor's roundup of news you may have missed this week.
View ArticleThe Latest on the Zika Virus
As the Zika virus continues to spread throughout the Americas, patients with the virus are showing up throughout the continental U.S. Two Illinois residents and an Arkansas resident are among the...
View ArticleWeekly Reading: Vicodin Scripts Down, Drug Shortages Rise, Geriatricians Wanted
Apps creating night owls; flu cases waning and what happened to all the Vicodin?
View ArticleWorking Toward a Zika Vaccine Before it Hits the U.S. Mainland
The Zika virus has been confirmed in more than 20 countries in South and Central America, including cases in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
View ArticleThe Opioid Overuse Epidemic: What Providers Can Do
Our health care system did not start this national epidemic. But we can help to end it.
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