Maximizing patient safety is the top priority for hospital C-Suite executives and Risk Managers in the U.S. but "lack of teamwork, negative culture and poor communication" will present barriers to patient safety in the future. That's according to a ...

Low vaccination rates among healthcare workers in New York has prompted the State Health Department to amended public health codes to require nurses and other healthcare workers who don't get flu shots to wear face masks on the job. The new rule applies ...

In response to the proliferation and complexity of clinical trials, a new search engine launched this week offers consumers greater access to clinical trials around the world and help researchers access qualified participants. The ...

BD [Becton, Dickinson and Company], a leading global medical technology company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to be offered in the just-launched BD Simplist™ ready-to-administer, line of ...

U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Representative Richard Neal (D-MA) this week introduced the Supporting ColoRectal Examination and Education Now (SCREEN) Act (S. 608/H.R. 1320).  The SCREEN Act would waive Medicare beneficiary ...

The Health Care Innovations Exchange created by AHRQ to speed the implementation of new and better ways of delivering healthcare, now includes more than 700 successful nursing innovations implemented around the country in recent years. Created ...

ConnectedHealth, a provider of health monitoring connectivity solutions, today announced the availability of the ConnectedHealth Nursing Manager Application (NMA) and ConnectedHealth Secure Medical Tablet. Working together, the new ...

Mylan Specialty LP, a Basking Ridge, N.J.-based specialty pharmaceutical business of Mylan Inc., announced that since launching the EpiPen4Schools program in August 2012 thousands of schools across the country have elected to participate by ...

McKesson's Paragon hospital information system (HIS) is now the solution of choice in more than 250 healthcare facilities nationwide. This milestone speaks to McKesson's ongoing mission of delivering a contemporary, integrated, Microsoft-based HIS to ...

Medical Solutions, an Omaha, Neb.-based national healthcare staffing company announced the acquisition of OA Nurse Travel from On Assignment, Inc. With the finalization of this deal, the company will employ over 1,000 traveling nurses and become the ...

Sentara Healthcare, Cupron, EOS Surfaces and Encompass Group are joining together to evaluate the clinical and economic effectiveness of deploying antimicrobial copper-based hard surfaces and textiles in a range of healthcare environments.This ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a provider of information and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced Feb. 4 the launch of an iPad app for Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and ...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) announced it has expands its hospital-based nurse leadership and innovation training program to a fourth region with the addition of eight hospitals in the greater Austin, Tex. area.The AACN ...

Scripps Clinic, in partnership with The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has begun the research phase of a proposed clinical trial using induced pluripotent stem cells to halt or reverse the effects of Parkinson's disease.Under the leadership ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it has approved Flublok, the first trivalent influenza vaccine made using an insect virus (baculovirus) expression system and recombinant DNA technology. Flublok is approved for the prevention of ...

Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing and preventing the spread ...

FDA is reminding healthcare professionals and patients that the combined use of Xyrem (sodium oxybate) with alcohol or central nervous system (CNS) depressant drugs can markedly impair consciousness and may lead to severe breathing problems (respiratory ...

Baptist Health in Jacksonville, FL, will be the first health system in North America to have surgical suites equipped with Buzz Digital OR, software which puts 3-D images of a patient's brain and spine at a doctor's fingertips - by way of a 42-inch, ...

Novo Nordisk announced today the introduction of HemaGo, a mobile application (app) to help individuals with hemophilia and their caregivers monitor the details of treatment, including medications, dosing, bleed information and the impact of hemophilia ...

Welch Allyn, a Skaneateles Falls, NY-based provider of frontline medical products and solutions, recently introduced monitoring technology which provides a unique, adaptable blood pressure averaging program that helps healthcare providers conduct ...