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In 2002, New Mexico made it legal to allow certain psychologists who completed specific training to prescribe psychiatric medicines.
Supporters of poison control centers say a proposed $27 million reduction in funding, part of a package of cuts announced in February by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), would close some centers and lead to higher healthcare costs.
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living have released a report showing that the long-term care industry is the nation’s tenth largest employer.
A new study has found that guided care of patients with multiple chronic conditions is ambiguous in terms of cost, but still holds value to people from various sectors of the healthcare industry.
President Barack Obama's address on the future of the nation's fiscal budget had a strong healthcare focus. This session tweet recaps the speech and Obama's plan to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years.
Cogent Healthcare and Hospitalists Management Group are merging to form the largest private hospitalist company in the United States. Officials say the merger will bring together two of the strongest companies in the rapidly growing hospitalist industry, with nearly 1,000 affiliated hospitalists and extenders practicing in more than 100 healthcare facilities nationwide.
The Skilled Healthcare Group, a holding company with subsidiary healthcare services companies, has announced that its board of directors has engaged J.P. Morgan Securities to assist the company in exploring strategic alternatives to maximize stockholder value, including a potential sale of the company's real estate assets or the whole company.
The vast majority of CIOs responding to the survey conducted in mid-March by the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) expect their organizations will achieve meaningful use of electronic health records within Stage 1 and get funding under the HITECH portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
The House is set to vote Wednesday on a bill that would deny more than $15 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which was created in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last year.
At the Health IT Policy Committee meeting Wednesday morning, Farzad Mostashari, MD, the new national coordinator for health information technology, said he will listen attentively to stakeholder interests and is aware of the tensions among them.