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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine campaign says hospitals have a responsibility to teach about healthy eating.

Todd Ostendorf previously held CFO roles with North Memorial Health Care and UnitedHealth Group's Complex Population Management.

The number of potentially deadly infections from contaminated medical scopes is far higher than what federal officials previously estimated, a new congressional investigation shows.

The healthcare industry accounted for the highest number of data breaches among service industries in 2015, according to a new 2016 Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec that also found ransomware on the rise and increasingly sophisticated attack tactics being perpetrated by organized criminals with extensive resources.

Staff learned in a company-wide letter that they would not be paid until this Friday.

He spoke to our sister site Healthcare IT News about the program, the people who make Geisinger work, the evolution of population health and the promise of what he calls "anticipatory medicine."

Unfortunately, thousands of people in need of mental health treatment are often being dropped at the emergency departments of their local hospitals, where under federal law doctors must evaluate these patients despite the limitations on ER-based mental health treatment.

National health spending in February was 4.8 percent higher than spending during the same month in 2015, according to a new report by the Altarum Institute, marking the fourth consecutive month in which spending growth has been below 5 percent.

At Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System, achieving scale meant creating a system-wide supply chain infrastructure rather than allowing each facility to oversee its own device purchasing.

Tenet Healthcare announced Thursday that Howard Hacker has been named senior vice president and chief compliance officer, a role that will begin on May 2. As chief compliance officer, Hacker will manage and oversee the company's ethics and compliance program.