The company announced it has been awarded the Medicare Advantage contract by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, effective Jan. 1, 2013.
Hospital staffs did not report 87 percent of errors, although they were required to, according to the inspector general's report.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) program supports research that addresses issues states face as they work to improve health coverage and access.
Humana Inc. launched it and says the site can help members "take positive steps on the path to lifelong well-being."
The devices for rapidly detecting pathogens in mosquitoes and sand flies that cause malaria, dengue, and leishmaniasis were developed by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
Only 55 percent of the surveyed agencies did a federal background check, and only one-third of them conduct drug testing of their employees, a Northwestern Medicine study found.
A July 18 symposium at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will launch The Lancet's series examining the global impact of physical inactivity on non-communicable diseases.
Through July 20, those who Like the conference's page have a chance to win free registration for the Sept. 11-15 event.
Leaders of HHS should bring national attention to the need for building a workforce of sufficient size, the committee that wrote the new Institute of Medicine report recommended.
David M. Murray, Ph.D., chair and professor of the Division of Epidemiology at Ohio State University's College of Public Health, will join NIH in September.
Its notice in the Federal Register affects companies that manufacture and distribute unapproved single-ingredient, immediate-release oxycodone drug products in oral dosage forms, including tablets, capsules, and oral solutions.
Policymakers and health care professionals have little evidence on which to base their decisions when allocating scarce resources during such events, the new AHRQ report finds.
One development is FDA's proposed rule for most medical devices distributed in the United States to be labeled with a unique device identifier. The other is a new Hand-off Communications Targeted Solutions Toolâ„¢.
More than $971 million in Hospital Preparedness Program and Public Health Emergency Preparedness grants are included in the 2012 cycle.
From its inception in the Great Depression to today's recession, this publication has been a continual resource for worker protection.
A Swiss air rescue service enhanced its documentation efficiency and improved flight conditions by adopting new tablet PCs.
Pieper was troubled by a recurring problem: The hospital was in dire need of places to store and deploy emergency supplies and equipment.
Benefits attorneys from Fisher & Phillips LLP, an employment law firm with offices in 27 U.S. cities, will present the webinar July 2.
"The Supreme Court did the right thing by upholding the Affordable Care Act. APHA is overjoyed by today's ruling," APHA Executive Director Dr. Georges C. Benjamin said.
allowed marketing of the first nucleic acid test that can identify 12 different bacterial types known to cause bloodstream infections. FDA said the test produces results in a few hours after the first sign of bacterial growth.