Esther Eisenberg, MD, Leads in the Fight Against Infertility

Few diagnoses strike an emotional chord with patients quite like infertility. Unfortunately, the problem affects 10 percent of women ages 15 to 44, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

To Which Contracts Does the Change Apply?

If there’s one thing businesses don’t like, it’s uncertainty. Yet uncertainty is what medical group practices and other entities that contract with physicians are faced with these days...

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like the federal government is upping its enforcement game when it comes to HIPAA privacy and security...

Saint Thomas Hospital is in the process of unveiling the Unity System, the first fully-integrated neurosurgical center in North America. Currently, the only other system similar to this one is in Singapore...

Analysts Share ‘Mixed Bag’ Views on Various Sectors

The Nashville Health Care Council’s annual panel discussion, Wall Street's View on Prospects for the Health Care Industry, attracted nearly 600 to the Nashville Convention Center last month to gain insight into top...

Leadership Health Care, an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council, is finalizing plans for its 10^th annual Delegation to Washington, D.C. on March 21-22...

 Lawyers Say Hospitals Have a Choice

All the changes in the last few years to Tennessee statutes regarding physician non-compete clauses have been perplexing, to say the least. Yet for non-competes imposed on physicians by hospitals,...

Wrap-up from Recent TATS Meeting

Tennessee Center for Patient Safety Makes Strides Statewide

In 2007, the Tennessee Hospital Association established the Tennessee Center for Patient Safety with funding primarily from the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Foundation...

Each March, patient safety steps into the national spotlight during the annual awareness week. For providers across the country, however, the safe delivery of care is an ongoing battle day in and day out...

AHA Section advocates on behalf of women & children

Representing the nation’s hospitals, health systems and networks, the American Hospital Association (AHA) has long been a vocal advocate on numerous fronts ranging from health reform and the reevaluation of...

When it comes to healthcare fraud, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) is cracking down, and in ways that could cost providers not only cash, but also their liberty...

Medical experts have attributed the startling trend of increased diagnoses regarding chronic pain and depression to an aging baby boomer generation enduring arguably the greatest economic fallout of our time...

Surviving cancer represents only one facet of disease’s consequences for young adults

When oncologists deliver the diagnosis of cancer to young adults, the overwhelming weight of the disease takes a toll on patients. The rush to treatment is immediate;...