A federal judge on Friday dealt the Affordable Care Act a major blow, ruling that the entire law, including its coverage expansions, payment models, and patient protections, are unconstitutional. But legal experts and public health officials noted the ruling has no immediate effects and is likely to be appealed.
The deal, which the organizations are still finalizing, mark's Atrium's inroads into Georgia, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, the District of Columbia, Georgia, and North Carolina.
As 2018 comes to a close, we're taking a look back at our most read stories of the year, from the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan partnership to hospitals' responses to active shooters. Here are 10 of the Daily Briefing's most-read articles of 2018.
While fax machines have become a technological relic in most industries, they've endured in the health care industry—but the United Kingdom's National Health Service is taking more aggressive measures to "axe the fax."
Fentanyl was the deadliest drug in the United States in 2016, according to the latest CDC data—and national security experts say the drug's lethal potency could make it an ideal weapon of mass destruction.
Analyses of data from CDC's WONDER database found the number of gun-related deaths in the United States reached a record high of nearly 40,000 in 2017, up more than 10,000 from 1999.
Getting a good night's sleep can be difficult, but Douglas Kirsch, president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and medical director of sleep medicine at Atrium Health, has a few tips to help you set up a room to get the rest you need, Heidi Mitchell writes for the Wall Street Journal.