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Massachusetts Nurses Sue Healthcare Company in Wage Dispute
Unionized nurses in Massachusetts have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming their employer owes them overtime pay. In the lawsuit filed in December 2013, Baystate Visiting...
Poll: 30% of Americans Delay Medical Treatment Due to Cost
Nearly one-third of Americans said they or a family member have put off seeing a doctor for fear that they cannot afford treatment, according...
U.S. Citizens Living Longer Than Ever, but Not as Long as...
Life expectancy for American citizens has increased, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data from 2009 was used...
Top 10 Health Technologies for 2014 Reference Guide Released
ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization that focuses on finding the best ways to improve patient care, has created a resource to help hospitals and...
U.S. Has Low Growth for Health Spending for the Fourth Consecutive...
Growth in healthcare spending in the United States has remained low for the fourth consecutive year, according to a report by the Centers for...
New Handheld Device Provides an Isometric Workout from Anywhere
Many mobile apps and devices have been created to monitor health or track fitness goals, but a new device takes it a step further...
Survey: Most Organizations are “Very Concerned” About Controlling Cost of Healthcare
Individuals aren’t the only people who are carefully monitoring healthcare costs. According to findings from the “State of Employee Benefits in the Workplace” survey...
MBA Students from the University of Texas at Dallas Win Healthcare...
A team of MBA students from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas won the 2013 Humana Healthcare...
Medicare Releases Best and Worst Hospitals for Replacing Joints
Hip and knee replacement surgeries are common in hospitals across the United States, and Medicare has begun examining how well patients fared afterward. There were...
About Half of Hospital Executives Plan to Implement Accountable Care Organization
Growing numbers of hospital executives plan to implement accountable care organizations (ACO) in 2014, according to one study, but a second study revealed that...