Glasgow- born Colin Norris was jailed for at least 30 years after being found guilty, in March 2008, of murdering the elderly women while working in Leeds General Infirmary and the city's St James's Hospital in 2002.. The Case of Colin Norris draws on a review from the geriatric medicine department at Rotherham General Hospital and the Bedfordshire
Release date- 22052013- LONDON- Accenture has completed the deployment of a cloud-based Radiology Information System for five hospitals and 23 facilities within the National Health Service in Southwest England. The deployment project-from signing contracts to going live-took just 10 weeks and included migration of data from the old systems to the n
Armando Rolando Gonzales Sanchez Segura, XII works at Acuity Hospital of South Texas in San Antonio, one of several long-term, acute-care hospitals owned or managed by AcuityHealthcare. Segura was selected from hundreds of clinicians system wide because he epitomizes the company s guiding principles of integrity first, service before self and ex
BioSyent Inc. is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, BioSyent Pharma Inc., has submitted two new drug products to Health Canada seeking marketing approval. These products will provide hospitals, clinics, and healthcare professionals with improved patient safety as well as operational efficiencies and will complement BioSyent's Hospital Divisio
2,718 patients at 100 clinical sites in the US, Canada, Germany, Australia, the UK, and Denmark have been enrolled in this randomized, international, multi-center trial. The study design was published in the American Heart Journal, September 2009. Jonathan Halperin, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York said, "Atrial fibrillation occurs more com
May 23 St. Clair Hospital officials say Highmark subscribers will not have access to its new outpatient center in Peters when it opens June 3 because of a credentialing dispute. According to the hospital, Highmark said it would not credential the center "until the Mt. Lebanon- based hospital signs a long-term extension of its provider agreement w
May 23 North Knoxville Medical Center has completed a $720,000 renovation and expansion of its emergency department. North Knoxville Medical Center is a Tennova Healthcare facility. Tennova is owned by Naples, Fla.- based Health Management Associates.
May 23 Hundreds of registered nurses moved from patient bedsides to the streets on Thursday morning to begin a strike against two San Jose hospitals affiliated with the Hospital Corporation of America. Members of the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses United walked out of Good Samaritan Hospital and Regional Medical Center.
May 23 LEWISTON Central Maine Healthcare hospitals announced a collaboration Thursday with Massachusetts General Hospital's cancer center aimed at streamlining services for its Maine patients who receive care at the prestigious Boston hospital. Treatments are being coordinated to maintain as much care as possible locally while still making use
Jan Brewer led a lively "pep rally" for Medicaid expansion at Tucson Medical Center on Wednesday morning, drawing cheers, shouts of support and a standing ovation from about 250 local health-care executives, business leaders and other citizens. Without the expansion, about 60,000 Arizonans now enrolled in Medicaid will immediately lose health cover
Jan Brewer led a lively "pep rally" for Medicaid expansion at Tucson Medical Center this morning, drawing cheers, shouts of support and a standing ovation from about 250 local healthcare executives, business leaders and regular citizens. Without the expansion, about 60,000 Arizonans now enrolled in Medicaid will immediately lose health coverage at
Delhi hospitals are seeing a spurt in the cases of adults contracting the disease. North Delhi's Infectious Diseases Hospital has alone admitted 189 patients for chicken pox. "At least seven doctors and students are suffering from chicken pox in our hospital," said Dr Jugal Kishore, professor, community medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College and L
Medical device development is the focus of an up-coming symposium hosted by the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children s National Medical Center. The First Annual Pediatric Surgical Innovation Symposium will be held June 13, 2013, at the Ritz Carlton in Washington, DC. Additional symposium speakers include Constanti
RxEOB said that DAKOTACARE, a physician-owned health plan in South Dakota, has implemented its AutoAuthRx pharmacy prior authorization automation technology for use by its network of physicians who serve the DAKOTACARE membership. According to a Dean Medical Center study regarding the economic burden of prior authorizations within allergist offices
A 90- YEAR-OLD patient died in hospital of kidney failure after staff failed to respond properly to his dehydration, a report out yesterday found.The case was one of several highlighted by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman in a series of reports dealing with complaints from members of the public over treatment of their loved ones by the NHS.A
In Pennsylvania, about 19,000 doctors and hospitals have received about $700 million in incentive payments, which are administered through the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, Health and Human Services said. In Western Pennsylvania, most of the hospitals and their employed doctors have installed the systems, said John Krah, executive directo
Earl Ray Tomblin's appointment of Karen Bowling as the new head of the state Department of Health and Human Resources will surely spark controversy over her salary. Rocco Fucillo was paid $95,000 a year in that post. More than half of that money is in Medicaid payments disbursed to hospitals and other health providers for the care of the poor, the
EL PASO, Texas and IRVINE, Calif., May 23, 2013/ PRNewswire/ Masimo today announced that El Paso Children's Hospital, the newest and most expansive dedicated children's hospital in west Texas, has upgraded to Masimo SET pulse oximetry and sensor technologies, the standard-of-care at leading health organizations worldwide. El Paso Children's al
A report by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, Jim Martin, revealed the woman, who was referred to as Mrs C, had undergone five cycles of fertility treatment, in August 2011. During her fifth cycle the woman had conceived, but this failed to show up on ultrasound scans, on August 23, 30 and 31, 2011, so she went in for a sixth IUI treatment on
May 23 Federal hospital regulators have sanctioned Milwaukee County's Mental Health Complex for failing to protect patients from attacks by other patients. Staff at the county facility also used physical and chemical restraints frequently on patients in a long-term care unit now targeted for closure, but failed to report that to regulators, accor
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly Researchers detail new data in Breast Cancer. According to news reporting originating from Helsinki, Finland, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Recently, many centers have omitted routine axillary lymph node dissection after metastatic sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer du
Fitch Ratings has affirmed the following Hospital Authority of Houston County bonds issued on behalf of Houston Healthcare at' A+':. Houston Healthcare also has $20.3 million in series 2013 revenue anticipation certificates placed with JP Morgan Chase Bank, which Fitch does not rate. MODEST DEBT BURDEN: HH issued $20.3 million in series 2013 direct
MUMBAI: The state government has entered into a partnership with global healthcare giant GE Healthcare for setting up advanced diagnostic and imaging facilities in 22 hospitals. A consortium of Wipro GE Healthcare will run these 24/ 7 diagnostic facilities. For 10 hospitals in the Marathwada belt, it will be paying the government Rs 22 lakh and Rs
To deliver the best possible service to patients, GPs and hospital staff, HCA International, the world s largest private hospital group, is committed to using the latest technology. HCA International found that using its existing suite limited financials staff to one font, and there was no way to customise invoices to show the logos and colour s
An independent group of healthcare experts has called upon Congress to reconsider CMS' "meaningful use" program to finance electronic health records for hospitals and physicians since it is not furthering Congress' goal of improving patient care. Senators Lamar Alexander, Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, Mike Enzi, Pat Roberts and John Thune in response t
