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Find Nursing Home Problems in Your State...Use this (interactive) tool to compare nursing homes in a state based on the deficiencies cited by regulators and the penalties imposed in the past three years. You can also search over 60,000 nursing home inspection reports to look for trends or patterns…

Lawmakers...accused ...administration of being slow to implement inspector general recommendations on fraud in the Medicare prescription drug program...has not fully implemented nine recommendations...to crack down on fraud in ...Medicare Part D, even though some of those recommendations were made as far back as 2006.

…pharmacists made their warnings – that there had been a significant increase in re-exports of some medicines…"Abuses have been discovered by some players in the pharmaceuticals market,"…ministry would closely check exports and re-exports…file complaints at home and abroad where there is evidence of abuse..

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in England gain access to patient records,...government has decided to give...read-only access to the summary care record, an electronic patient record derived from patients’ GP records, if the patient gives consent.

healthcare industry is infamous for its overuse and misuse of buzzwords and acronyms…arise from the ever-changing regulatory shifts designed to improve quality care and reign in increasing costs…One …commonly misused or misunderstood buzzwords today is "population health management,"…

..delay in opening is a result of the Legislature requiring the Department of Agriculture to list pesticides legal for use on marijuana.

Following an FDA inspection..Catalent’s Center of Excellence for Analytical Services...was hit with Form 483 warning with six observations....following a routine inspection of...facility,..Catalent responded by immediately effecting measures to resolve the observations.

...17,000 pharmacy locations contract with a 340B-eligible covered entity...Walgreens remains the biggest player, although Walmart, CVS, and Rite Aid collectively now account for about one-quarter of contract pharmacy locations....threaten to disrupt third-party payers’ pharmacy networks and confound manufacturers’ channel strategies. The new GAO report provides further evidence of problems.

Making Sure Your Child Has The Proper Immunizations Before The School Year Starts.

'Organizations must pay particular attention to HIPAA's requirements when using Internet-based document sharing applications' St. Elizabeth's Medical Center…will pay $218,400 to the Office for Civil Rights for alleged HIPAA violations…resulted from a..stating that the medical center was using a Web-based document-sharing application to store data containing protected health information.