The coming details matter for real reform
The shouting is over, now comes the hard work. That was the message delivered by a panel of experts at the Providence Business News...
Landmark seeking student volunteers
WOONSOCKET – Landmark Medical Center is seeking student volunteers.
The hospital says the program, open to high school and college students ages 14 to 20,...
Five Questions With: Laura Adams
Rhode Island has been a leader in health care information technology for several years, primarily through the efforts of the Rhode Island Quality Institute,...
RIBGH event to focus on reform
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Business Group on Health has invited an expert from Mercer and Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F. Koller to speak...
Bill would assure leave coverage
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Senate has passed a bill that would allow employers to let workers on extended medical leave remain on their group...
Brown, Stanford to study brain injuries
PROVIDENCE – Researchers at Brown University and Stanford University have launched a $14.9 million project geared to developing new brain micro-implants that can both...
RIH earns ICU excellence award
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital’s adult cardiothoracic critical care unit, one of several intensive-care units at the facility, has won the Beacon Award for...
Information technology crucial part of new law
If Congress hadn’t passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 a year before health care reform, the new law’s technology provisions might...
Reform to grow Medicaid rolls, for costs it’s unclear
In Rhode Island today, more than 1 in 4 children are enrolled in RIte Care or another Medicaid program. And of the more than...
Health care is now a whole lot more complex
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 that became law at the...
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