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Health Care 2229 results total, viewing 1 - 20 Memorial Hospital joining medical-home initiative March 20, 2010 Enhancing primary care, many believe, is the key to improving Americans’ health and reining in costs. If we build a close relationship with our family doctors, we’ll learn to take better care of ourselves, keep chronic diseases under control, and avoid hospitalizations. more BCBSRI to repay small businesses $1.8M March 19, 2010 Blue Cross will reimburse about $1.8 million to small employers and pay the largest fine ever imposed by a Rhode Island health insurance regulator as punishment for misapplying the “health status” factor in setting rates. more Koller OKs 10% hike in BCBSRI rates March 18, 2010 | 1 comment Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher Koller has approved rate factors that would boost the premiums of all three commercial insurers in Rhode Island, but only Tufts Health Plan got the full hike it requested. more URI, RIC seek $60M city nursing facility March 17, 2010 URI and RIC will ask voters to approve borrowing nearly $132 million this fall to pay for a new joint nursing building in Providence, a chemistry building at URI and infrastructure improvements at RIC, officials said Wednesday. more Study: 1 in 5 in R.I. uninsured this year March 15, 2010 More than 187,000 Rhode Islanders – or 21 percent of those under the age of 65 – will lack health insurance at some point this year, according to a study released Monday. more CVS filled 1.3 billion prescriptions in ’09 March 15, 2010 WOONSOCKET - CVS Caremark Corp. filled nearly 1.3 billion prescriptions in the United States last year, according to its annual report to the Securities & Exchange Commission. more Blue Cross not waiting for health reform March 15, 2010 Convinced that its long-term survival is at stake, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is attempting a corporate transformation. more Five Questions With: Philip Fernbach March 15, 2010 A Brown University cognitive science researcher explains why ‘diagnostic’ thinking might help us make better judgments in everything from medicine, to career choices. more Homefront becomes Medicare-certified March 15, 2010 Homefront Health Care, a large provider of in-home health care in Rhode Island, has gained Medicare certification, allowing it to provide additional care for its clients. more Ingenix teams up with AMA March 15, 2010 Ingenix CareTracker, the electronic health record system developed by the former LighthouseMD – now part of UnitedHealth Group’s Ingenix division, but still based here – is getting a big boost from the American Medical Association. more W&I to host NICU conference March 15, 2010 Women & Infants Hospital is hosting a day-long conference April 29 about its neonatal intensive-care unit and the medical model and science behind it, with experts from the hospital and across the country describing what they see as the future of NICUs. more RIH anxiety scale proves effective March 15, 2010 A team at Rhode Island Hospital led by Dr. Mark Zimmerman, left, has developed a new way to diagnose and measure anxiety that takes less than a minute and a half to administer and less than 15 seconds to score, but has been proven to reliably identify the problem and gauge the severity of symptoms. more Women & Infants offers ‘financial health’ classes March 13, 2010 PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital is offering a free class for new parents, sponsored by Domestic Bank, to help them adjust to the financial challenges of raising a family. more Research explains how body repairs itself March 13, 2010 PROVIDENCE – Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have discovered a mechanism that injured and stressed cells use to transmit protein and genetic information to other cells so they can help the body to repair itself. more RIPIN hosts special health needs conference March 13, 2010 PROVIDENCE – A full-day event March 18 at the R.I. Convention Center will focus on “best practices” in caring for children, youth and adults with special health care needs, with content geared to families, individuals and professionals. more Bradley, Hasbro to build U.S. IBD registry March 13, 2010 PROVIDENCE – Researchers with Hasbro Children’s Hospital and the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center have won a $500,000 National Institutes of Health grant to develop the first U.S. multicenter behavioral health registry for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). more Clinical-trial firm opens in Fall River March 13, 2010 FALL RIVER – A medical-research company specializing in pharmaceutical clinical trials has opened its doors in the New Boston Road Medical Center, led nurse practitioner Elizabeth Donaghey. more URI, Bradley team on kids’ mental health M.S. March 13, 2010 EAST PROVIDENCE – Bradley Hospital and the University of Rhode Island are collaborating on a new master’s degree program to train advanced-practice nurses in child and adolescent mental health, a field in which there is currently a shortage. more Parkinson’s specialist Friedman joins Butler March 13, 2010 Dr. Joseph H. Friedman, a neurologist who has been studying Parkinson’s since the mid-1980s, has joined Butler Hospital with a mission. more Hypothermia therapy is saving lives March 13, 2010 A new protocol at area hospitals puts most cardiac arrest patients into hypothermia for 24 hours as soon as the heartbeat is restored. more Page 1 / 112 Next > Last >>