A budding whistleblower suit made public Monday exposed allegations that Boston Scientific, Abbott Laboratories and Cordis fraudulently marketed and promoted biliary stents for vascular usean action not approved by the FDA.

Besides funding, the most sought-after commodity in any healthcare setting is time. The get-it-done-yesterday environment in most facilities has CMIOs scrambling. The aggressive timelines proposed by the interim final rule and notice of proposed rule-making for meaningful use will further test health IT professionals.

The North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System has been awarded the 2010 National Quality Forum (NQF) National Quality Healthcare Award for its commitment to providing data-driven quality, transparency and patient-centered healthcare.

The California Telemedicine Pilot Project, sponsored by Cisco with the assistance of health organization Molina Healthcare, two community health centers in San Diego and the state of California, will connect more than 15 locations and provide health and wellness services to underserved communities throughout the state.

St. Lukes Lakeside Hospital of the Woodlands in Texas--a new hospital within St. Luke's Episcopal Health System--has selected imaging equipment from diagnostic imaging systems and services provider Toshiba America Medical Systems for its new facility.

The House of Representatives healthcare reform bill, if passed, could reduce the number of uninsured to 24 million by 2019, a 56 percent decrease relative to the current projected trend, said a recent analysis of the Affordable Health Care for America Act by the RAND Corporation.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., urging that Congress maintain the level of insurance coverage offered in the House version of healthcare reform when it reconciles the competing Senate and House healthcare reform bills.

Anthem Blue Cross has partnered with Ideal Life to pilot the C.A.R.E. (Congestive Heart Failure Ambulatory Remote monitoring and Engagement) program to provide wireless body weight scales to in-home congestive heart failure patients for increased patient monitoring.