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Hospital CEO and his brother, an Emergency Physician, arrested for...
From Becker’s: Michael Gowder, DDS, CEO of 45-bed Union General Hospital in Blairsville, Ga., was one of six arrested by federal agents Thursday as part of a multi-state prescription drug sting. Dr....
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Telemedicine Reliable for Diagnosing Seriously Ill Kids
From Medscape: Clinicians who used telemedicine connections to diagnose seriously ill children with fevers and respiratory distress did almost as well as clinicians who were able to make their...
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Opioid abuse epidemic catching attention of Missouri politicians, law...
From the News-Leader: Getting on top of Missouri’s abuse of prescription painkillers is made more difficult because Missouri is the only state in the union that does not have a prescription drug...
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University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics alerts 1,500 patients to bacterial...
From Becker’s: The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has sent infection risk letters to roughly 1,500 patients after one patient was diagnosed with a potentially deadly bacterial infection...
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“Why People Visit The Emergency Room” (Data Visualization)
From Flowing Data (via Boing Boing): You can see this in injury data collected by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. They sample US hospitals and cull product-related injuries each year, which,...
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Medicare Value-based Payment Reform: Priorities for Transforming Rural Health...
From the Rural Health Research Gateway: In January, 2015, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Burwell announced new goals and timelines for moving Medicare reimbursement from...
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6 common characteristics of hospitals vulnerable to closure
From Becker’s: There are 673 rural hospitals across the nation that are vulnerable to closure, and these facilities have many similarities beyond their financial troubles, according to a report from...
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Potentially deadly form of heroin spikes ODs, La Crosse ER doc says
From the Tribune: A more dangerous form of heroin is circulating on La Crosse streets, resulting in a spike in overdoses and raising the specter of potentially deadly cases — perhaps causing one death...
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ncreased analgesia administration in emergency medicine after implementation...
From 7th Space: The most common complaint of patients attending the emergency department (ED) is pain, caused by different diseases. Yet the treatment of pain at the ED is suboptimal, and...
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“Streator won’t have ER, but state OKs emergency room”
From the News Tribune: Though it won’t be a hospital emergency room, there soon will be an “emergency center” for patients at Streator. Illinois Department of Public Health has granted OSF HealthCare a...
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Rhode Island: Potentially Preventable Emergency Room Visits
From HealthFacts RI: A potentially preventable emergency room visit is when a patient goes to an emergency room for a health condition that could have been prevented, or treated in a non-emergency...
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The rural hospital closure crisis: 15 key findings and trends
From Becker’s: Where are vulnerable hospitals located?6. Southern states have especially high rates of vulnerability when compared to their total number of rural hospitals. States in this region with...
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Electronic healthcare records data reveal factors linked to emergency...
Press Release: A new study has identified distinctions in patient diagnoses and different patterns of Emergency Department usage between individuals who are more or less likely to return to the ED for...
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The Global Rise of Telemedicine
From Medscape: Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Hello. I’m Dr Andrew Wilner, reporting for Medscape. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Jonathan Linkous, who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the...
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Can telehealth keep nursing-home patients out of hospitals?
From the Tribune: A Chicago startup is working with nursing homes using Google Glass, texts and live video chats to keep residents from making unnecessary trips to the hospital. Traditionally, if a...
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Bill would make naloxone available over-the-counter in WV
From the Gazette-Mail: Pharmacists in West Virginia soon could provide naloxone — the opioid-reversing drug — over the counter if the West Virginia Legislature passes a bipartisan bill supported by...
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Team approach to rural heart attacks leads to better outcomes
From the Pilot-Tribune (hat tip: Heather, via Facebook): Because of this work, BVRMC was asked to join the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline initiative for the state of Iowa, which has the...
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Heroin overdose bill heads to Iowa Senate floor
From the Des Moines Register: A bill that authorizes emergency medical technicians and others to obtain a supply of drugs to combat heroin overdoses was approved Monday by the Iowa Senate Human...
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Changes in Washington put some rural hospitals in jeopardy
From the Daily News: Federal budget cuts have contributed to the closure of 67 rural hospitals across the nation and another 673 are teetering on the edge, according to a recent study. The study by...
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