Study Points to Need for Performance Standards for EHR Usability and Safety

Finds huge variability in task completion efficiency and accuracy

Staggering Prices Slow Insurers' Coverage Of CAR-T Cancer Therapy

The two approved therapies, with price tags of hundreds of thousands of dollars, have roiled the insurance approval process

The Challenge of Noncompliance with Medical Recommendations Part 2

Actions to improve patient compliance

Doctor's Innovative Response to Hospital's Over-billing Patients, Under-paying Doctors Offers Hope

The Challenge of Noncompliance with Medical Recommendations Part 1

Clinical impact, incidence, and potential causes

Free Back-to-School Physicals for Uninsured Children

Available beginning July 24 at Shepherd's Hope locations in Orange and Seminole counties

The Courage to Trust Medical Care to Patients and Physicians

The "us against them" attitude, punctuated by hyperbolic, apocalyptic rhetoric closes the door to finding solutions

St. Cloud Regional Medical Center Announces Plans for Cardiac Catheterization Lab

Program will be an excellent complement to the current diagnostic and cardiac device service currently offered

Lake Nona Launches Customized Wellbeing Mobile App for Residents

The Jiyo Platform, created by Dr. Deepak Chopra, is a personal wellbeing companion tailored to the Lake Nona Community

Retooled Vaccine Raises Hopes As A Lower-Cost Treatment For Type 1 Diabetes

The A1c of those followed for eight years dropped by more than 10 percent three years after the injection and were sustained for five more years

In Florida, Midterm Elections Hold Faint Hope For Medicaid Expansion

It's been three years since the Florida legislature last debated -- and overwhelmingly rejected --Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

Insurers Fall Short In Catching And Reporting Medicaid Fraud, Inspectors Find

The U.S. Health and Human Services' inspector general's office said a third of the health plans it examined had referred fewer than 10 cases each of suspected fraud or abuse to state Medicaid officials in 2015 for further investigation

CMS Announces Initiatives to Strengthen Medicaid Integrity

CMS Advances Demonstration to Waive MIPS Requirements for Clinicians in Certain Plans

Healogics Agrees To Pay Up To $22.51 Million To Settle False Claims Act Liability for Improper Billing of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

How to Handle Reports from the Prescription Drug Monitoring Database

Guidance on the appropriate use of reports from E-FORSCE

Scam Alert!

Volusia County Medical Society offers warning

Volusia County Medical Society Offers Spots for Two Delegates to FMA Meeting

SCMS Awards Two Scholarships

Jessica Man and Victoria Orindas recognized for hard work and promise for the future

SCAM ALERT! Your Top Doctor Award Plaque is ready to be shipped!

Healthcare Leader: Josie Weiss, PhD

UCF Nursing Professor and Shepherd's Hope Volunteer has spent her career serving vulnerable populations

Healthcare Means Everything for South Seminole Hospital COO

Maggie Bonko: Our June Healthcare Leader

Physician Spotlight: Jamin Brahmbhatt, MD

Extending mens' lives one very quick mile at a time

District 6 Congressional Candidate Talks Healthcare from a Candidate's View

Healthcare Leader: Steve Sevigny, MD

Physician Spotlight: Oral James, MD

Committed to the community that had faith in him as a young man

Orlando Health Breaks Ground on New Emergency Room and Medical Pavilion in Lake Mary

New, Expanded Cancer Center Reaches Completion in Southwest Orlando

"Our patients won't have to endure the difficulties of traveling downtown"

15th Annual Caribbean Health Summit to Provide More Free Health Screenings in Central Florida

Florida Hospital Celebration Health Breaks Ground on New Patient Tower

Apopka, Eatonville, and Orlando Named Healthy Community Champions by the Florida Department of Health

Whether through healthy cooking programs, food nutrition education, or fitness programs, the local governments of Apopka, Eatonville, and Orlando have played an important role in improving the health of their communities.