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Electronic medical record use rises in Rhode Island
Driven by strong advocacy at the state and federal levels, physician-led initiatives and financial incentives from insurers and even local businesses, electronic medical record...
EMS survey finds gap in heart-attack response
A new survey by the American Heart Association shows many EMS units don’t have the gear needed to detect the deadliest kind of heart...
New Dartmouth president to speak at Brown
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a physician, medical anthropologist, internationally known expert on tuberculosis and recently appointed president of Dartmouth College, is speaking at Brown...
Heartlab spinoff unveils cardiac data storage system
A spinoff of Ashaway-based Heartlab Inc. last week unveiled a new energy-efficient data storage system for cardiac diagnostic data that it says dramatically reduces...
Study: Cost of Mass. health changes evenly distributed
A new study shows the cost of changes to the Massachusetts’ health care system has been borne more or less evenly by employers, individuals...
Americans dropping prescriptions at growing rates
American consumers are increasingly dropping their prescriptions, apparently due to cost, with 6.8 percent of prescriptions submitted at pharmacies in 2008 never actually picked...
CDC recognizes local perinatal hepatitis program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recognized the Rhode Island Perinatal Hepatitis Prevention Program for having the highest immunization rate in the...
Five Questions With: Peggy McGill
Lifespan and its three research hospitals have received full three-year accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP).
Lifespan’s...
Wanted: Nurses who can teach
Devra Griffin has been a nurse for 20 years. She’s worked in pediatrics, spent eight years as a nurse practitioner in women’s health at...
Caritas to insure low-income people in Mass.
In the 1990s, HMOs across the country built and took over hospitals and other health care facilities, put doctors on their own payrolls and...
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