The New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System has tapped Health Net Federal Services to provide primary and preventive health services to an estimated 1,000 veterans in a newly established VA contract community-based outpatient clinic in Taos, N.M.

CareFusion and ResMed have signed a five-year agreement providing CareFusion the exclusive right to distribute the ResMed Stellar 100 and 150 non-invasive ventilators (NIV) and their related accessories into the U.S. institutional healthcare market.

An HHS Advanced Notice for Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) suggests changes to the human subjects research regulations for studies posing minimal risk, as well as revisions to the exempt category and enhanced protections for research participants, noted the authors of a New England Journal of Medicine article published online July 25.

The Pediatric and Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium (PICS-AICS) in Boston will showcase Toshiba America Medical Systems x-ray and ultrasound systems during three live interventional cases.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is contemplating various ways of enhancing the regulations overseeing research on human subjects and is seeking public comment on improving rules to protect human research subjects.

Up to one million patients in the U.S. may be taking two medications that can lead to unexpected increases in blood glucose level when used simultaneously, wrote Tracy Hampton, PhD, in the July 13 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

A web-based benchmarking platform released by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) allows providers to evaluate their sterilization standards by comparing their data anonymously with other hospitals.

Gregory Woitte, PhD, of Cherokee Nation Health Services, has received $21,250 in federal funds to help offset the costs of adopting an EHR system as part of the Oklahoma State Medicaid EHR incentive program. Cherokee Nation Health Services is the first Tribal Health Program in the nation to receive incentive payments, according to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA).