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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, NC, joined the growing ranks of health care organizations implementing the innovative quality assurance and process improvement strategy Six Sigma.
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The campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center in Little Rock went smoke free last summer in a seamless transition that surprised and delighted access management.
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Fee for service is making a comeback, contends health care futurist Leland R. Kaiser, who predicts health care is destined to become the leading business in America.
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A coordinated smallpox attack on international transportation hubs quickly would divide the world into the haves and the have nots, exerting extraordinary pressure on world leaders to withhold their vaccine stocks to protect their own populations, a bioterrorism war game revealed.
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Federal health officials are developing a system of temporary health care facilities called contingency stations to prepare an overburdened health care system for a mass casualty event.
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A full analysis of the Atlantic Storm bioterrorism exercise, held in Washington, DC, Jan. 14, is forthcoming, but organizers cited these initial conclusions after the project.
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Media images of the smallest victims of terrorism and natural disasters are seared in the collective memory. Terrorist attacks on Russian schoolchildren and the tsunami disaster in Asia have shown that a horrific surge of pediatric patients is a possibility for todays health care system.
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The federal government has awarded $232 million to fund research and development of new vaccines against three potential agents of bioterrorism: smallpox, plague, and tularemia. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will administer the contracts.
