CGS Wins Contract, Plans to Add Area Jobs

Mar 03, 2016 at 02:45 pm by Staff

CGS Administrators, a prominent supplier of various Medicare services, recently won a medical equipment contract worth approximately $78 million that is expected to lead to th.... Read More

Antibodies May Provide ‘Silver Bullet’ for Ebola Viruses

Mar 03, 2016 at 02:42 pm by Staff

In late January, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (UTMB) reported in the journal Cell that they have.... Read More

Digital Reasoning Buys Shareable

Mar 03, 2016 at 02:39 pm by Staff

Digital Reasoning, which recently secured $5 million in funding from HCA, has purchased fellow tech company Shareable. The acquisition of the company, founded as Shareable Ink.... Read More

Medalogix Announces New Home Health Analytics Technology

Mar 03, 2016 at 02:37 pm by Staff

Medalogix, a Nashville-based healthcare technology company, has announced the release of Nurture, its third analytics-based solution for home health agencies. Nurture uses pre.... Read More

Piramal Critical Care, Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Launch Co-Promotion

Mar 03, 2016 at 02:36 pm by Staff

Piramal Critical Care, a Bethlehem, Pa.-based integral business unit of Piramal Enterprises, and Nashville-based specialty pharmaceutical company Cumberland Pharmaceuticals In.... Read More

Local Investment Group Now Majority Owner of The Heritage at Brentwood

Mar 03, 2016 at 02:35 pm by Staff

In February, The Heritage at Brentwood, a community managed by Life Care Services™, an LCS® Company, announced Middle Tennessee-based investment group, Heritage Investment Par.... Read More

Nation's Top HIT Providers, Health Systems Pledge to Improve Interoperability

Mar 01, 2016 at 11:06 am by Staff

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced many of the nation's leading technology companies and several of the nation's largest health.... Read More

‘Trigger Tool’ Available for Hospitals and SNFs

Feb 29, 2016 at 02:46 pm by Staff

The use of trigger tools for healthcare facilities to identify adverse events (AE), their possible sources and the level of harm to patients has been an accepted and challengi.... Read More

Staffing Predicaments of Full Open Enrollment

Feb 29, 2016 at 02:20 pm by Staff

When Jason Leverant co-developed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Cost Calculator for the American Staffing Association (ASA) on a 6-person team, he was thrilled when the interac.... Read More

By the Numbers: The Latest Cancer Stats & Facts

Feb 29, 2016 at 02:12 pm by Staff

When it comes to reducing cancer mortality in America, there is no question the nation has seen steady improvement with the death rate down 23 percent in just over two decades.... Read More