Resources

3014 Resources for

Healthcare

Subscribe to this listing via:
RSS
Email

Did you mean health care (2,072 results), health care company (19 results), Healthcare Financial Management Association (8 results), Partners HealthCare System Inc. (1 results), Tenet Healthcare Corp. (1 results)

BNET Industries

Healthcare Services Group Inc.: Healthcare Services Group operates in two segments: housekeeping, which consists mainly of the cleaning, disinfecting and sanitizing of patient rooms and common areas of a...; Healthcare Services Group Inc. company page on BNET »

BNET Resources

As Hospitals Hit the Skids, Odds of a Healthcare Crisis Rise: It's not just big insurers who are sinking into the swamp these days -- hospitals are slipping as well. And while it's a little early to know for sure, the problems of health plans seem quite likely to make those of hospitals even worse. Yesterday, Tenet Healthcare...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Health Care, Nothing, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Good News Not Totally Absent in Healthcare: Medical costs continue to rise much faster than general inflation, the insurance safety net is fraying as health plans and hospitals push the financial burden of being ill back onto the sick themselves, and even people who get their insurance through work have seen their premium contributions rise ten times...; Tags: Hospital, Aetna Inc., Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Michigan Nukes Expensive Cancer-Radiation Sites: When a Michigan commission recently voted to deny several hospitals the right to build expensive "proton-beam therapy" sites for cancer treatment, it took a major step into the brave new world of explicit healthcare rationing. The rationale behind the decision was fairly straightforward. Four hospitals had each...; Tags: Hospital, Center, Healthcare, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Emergent's Vaccine Play: Biotech Can Flip-Flop, Too: For sudden twists of fate, abrupt collapses and the occasional stunning revival, it's hard to beat the biotech industry. Yesterday, for instance, the all-but-dead biotech VaxGen agreed to sell off its ailing anthrax vaccine to its East Coast rival Emergent BioSolutions --a company that spent much of this decade trying...; Tags: Biotechnology, Vaccine, Emergent Biosolutions, VaxGen, Healthcare, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Schering-Plough Now in the Feds' Crosshairs: The Vytorin scandal just got serious. Well, heck, it was already serious. Make this really serious: Investigation and Inquiries. Through the date of filing this 10-Q, Schering-Plough, the joint venture and/or its ...; Tags: SEC, Merck & Co. Inc., Schering-Plough Corp., Attorney, Vytorin, Sales Strategy, Healthcare, Sales Force Management, Sales, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-07

Aetna's Ron Williams Speaks -- And Actually Says Something: This Fortune interview with Aetna CEO Ron Williams is a few days old, but as it just popped up in my RSS reader, it is, as they say, new to me. Since it's pretty rare to see someone like Williams candidly discuss the health-plan business, its problems and some intriguing...; Tags: Physician, Decision Support, Aetna Inc., Health Care, Dermatologist, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Are Half of Hospitals Insolvent? Not Exactly: A few weeks ago, we highlighted the surprising fact that top nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. are making a ton of money, even as many of them shirk their legal duty to serve the uninsured. Some are now even charging patients enormous sums up front before treating them for cancer...; Tags: Hospital, Healthcare, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Pfizer Drops Glaucoma Drug, NicOx Shares Slump: PARIS (Reuters) - Pfizer (PFE) has decided not to take NicOx's (NCOX) experimental glaucoma drug PF-03187207 into final Phase III tests after a mid-stage study failed to met its primary endpoint, sending NicOx shares tumbling. The news is a major blow for NicOx,...; Tags: Pfizer Inc., endpoint, compound, Paris, biotechnology, Thomson Reuters Corp., patient, collaboration; News items 2008-05-06
Chris Owens: Emergency Identification: Chris Owens is the owner of the company Identification Devices and the inventor of the medical device Medical iD. Medical iD is a USB drive made to store medical records, which can be easily accessed in an emergency. Owens talks about how he found the niche for his...; Tags: medical device, medical record, USB flash drive; Videos 2008-05-08
Cash Up Front or Else -- Why Hospitals Are Gouging Their Patients: People who've just been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease already have plenty of things to worry about. Now comes one more unexpected concern: Many large hospitals are demanding up-front payment before they'll admit patients for cancer treatment and other expensive care. This WSJ story is a classic...; Tags: Payment, Patient, Hospital, Insurance Company, Health Care, Insurance, Healthcare, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Humana Profit Rises 13 Percent: By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Health insurer Humana Inc (HUM) said on Monday that first-quarter profit rose nearly 13 percent, beating dramatically reduced expectations, helped by its commercial plans for employers and a lower-than-expected tax rate. Shares rose 3...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Investment, Humana Inc., Medicare, Wachovia Corp., insurance company, tax, stock, earnings forecast, earnings, analyst, profit warning, Thomson Reuters Corp., New York, health care, stock price, stock market, net income, benefit, industry; News items 2008-04-28
Pharmacies Push the E-Prescribing Boulder Uphill: If you flog it, they will come. Or so ten major pharmacy chains seem to think, since they've just launched a national marketing campaign aimed at raising "consumer awareness" about electronic prescriptions, or e-prescribing (free registration required). The logic behind electronic prescriptions is much the same --...; Tags: Pharmacy, Prescription, E-health, Government, Healthcare, Fax, Marketing Research, Marketing, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Smith & Nephew Launches Probe: By Michael Kahn LONDON (Reuters UK) - Smith & Nephew (SN) on Thursday disclosed that an internal probe had turned up "unacceptable" sales practices at a newly acquired unit, warning the problems would hit sales and profits in 2008. Shares of Europe's biggest medical device maker...; Tags: Smith & Nephew Plc., Sales Strategy, Healthcare, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oukbs, Smithnephew; News items 2008-05-01
Vic Country Home Buyers Get $3,000 Bonus: Country Victorians buying their first home will receive a $3,000 bonus under new incentives announced in the state budget on Tuesday.Extra spending on health, education, roads and transport also spearhead the funding package for regional and rural VictoriansThe regional home bonus comes on top of the state's $7,000 first...; Tags: Bonus, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Sales, AAP; News items 2008-05-06
Three Healthcare Stories From the Week That Was: With the week drawing to a close, here are three healthcare stories you might have overlooked: Thirteen years after House Democrat Louise Slaughter first proposed it, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, or GINA, finally passed both houses of Congress. President Bush has pledged to sign it. The...; Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-25
How Insurance Really Works, Courtesy of WellPoint: Give WellPoint credit for clarity, if nothing else. Its first-quarter earnings were terrible, but the company's outline of its plans to bounce back -- reasonable or not -- also offered a revealing window into how insurers actually think about the business of providing health coverage. With virtually...; Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Insurance, WellPoint, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Medicare Ups the Ante on Medical Mistakes -- But Risks Going Too Far: Two weeks after health plans like Wellpoint announced they would follow Medicare's lead in refusing to pay for eight preventable medical problems in hospitals, Medicare has upped the ante by proposing nine more conditions for which it won't fully reimburse hospitals, including surgical infections, wild swings...; Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Incentive, Patient, Hospital, Medicare, Health Care, Roy Poses, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Flextime is Good for Employees' Health, Too: The Find: Flextime has been shown to improve productivity and aid retention; now researchers have found it improves health and reduces absenteeism as well. The Source: Recent research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine published in the Psychologist-Manager Journal. ...; Tags: Vertical industries, Workforce management, Jessica Stillman, flex-time, health care, absence; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Acambis Wins U.S. Smallpox Vaccine Contract: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Vaccine maker Acambis (ACM) has won a long-awaited 10-year contract, worth $425 million (213 million pounds), to supply the U.S. government with a smallpox vaccine, the company said on Wednesday. Acambis also said it was to raise 40 million pounds through ...; Tags: Acambis, Vaccine, Healthcare, Aecom Technology Corp., Oukbs; News items 2008-04-23
WellPoint Cuts 2008 Forecast After Profit Slumps: NEW YORK (Reuters) - WellPoint Inc (WLP) said on Wednesday first-quarter profit slumped a steeper-than-expected 25 percent on high medical costs, mainly in its Medicare plans for the elderly. The health insurer also further cut its 2008 forecast. The largest U.S....; Tags: Insurance, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, insurance company, health care, analyst, profit warning, Thomson Reuters Corp., New York, valuation, net income, industry; News items 2008-04-23