Headlines: Hospitals to Hire More Next Year
FALLS CHURCH – Top headlines from Noblis Health Innovation for Wednesday, July 28. Click on the underlined item for the actual story:
- Hospitals, doctors offices should hire more in the next year: Analysts say hospitals and large health systems are expected to add staff — including physicians — to prepare for the expanded demand for services that is likely as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is implemented.
- FCC, FDA partner to advance telehealth: FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg and FCC chairman Julius Genachowski are discussing a broad range of cutting-edge wireless medical devices as well as discuss issues affecting the telehealth industry, reports Nicole Lewis of Information Week.
- Health IT key to national health security plan: The Biennial Implementation Plan, published July 19 by the Department of Health and Human Services, is the first-ever attempt to pull together a national strategy for minimizing the health impact of natural and man-made disasters, disease outbreaks, and biological and other terrorist attacks.
- Researchers find gaps in the quality of heart failure care: Steve Sternberg of USA Today reports that researchers found gaps in the quality of heart failure care provided to thousands of patients by cardiologists who don’t always follow treatment guidelines, USA Today’s Steve Sternberg reports.
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