Orlando Health and Florida Department of Health Team Up to Develop Innovative Newborn Screening Process

Aug 15, 2019 at 08:41 pm by Staff

.   Orlando Health has teamed up with the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) to develop a more efficient and accurate way to collect mandated health data from newborn.... Read More

Big Data - Advancing Technology for Small Business

Aug 15, 2019 at 02:07 pm by Staff

The Latest offering of the EOCC to help your business By DOROTHY HARDEE In July, we discussed the evolution of telehealth as part of the protocol to reduce healthcare costs.... Read More

Frontiers in Robotic Surgery

Aug 15, 2019 at 01:56 pm by Staff

By SAM ATALLAH, MD and JORGE TRILLES For contemporary readers and practicing physicians, the term 'robotic surgery' may conjure up thoughts of mechanical anthropomorphic.... Read More

Doctors Can Change Opioid Prescribing Habits, But Progress Comes In Small Doses

Aug 15, 2019 at 01:37 pm by Staff

  Julie Appleby, Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News When they started practicing medicine, most surgeons say, there was little or no information about just how many pa.... Read More

Trump Administration Hits Brakes On Law To Curb Unneeded Medicare CT Scans, MRIs

Aug 15, 2019 at 01:31 pm by Staff

. Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Five years after Congress passed a law to reduce unnecessary MRIs, CT scans and other expensive diagnostic imaging tests that could harm.... Read More

PONTE HEALTH to Set Up Invitation-only Competitive Bid Process for Construction of Vertical Medical City - Orlando

Aug 15, 2019 at 01:11 pm by Staff

. PONTE HEALTH Owner / Developer of Vertical Medical City - Orlando, is to set up an invitation-only competitive bid process for the Fall of 2019. . For more information,.... Read More

Hepatitis A Races Across The Country

Aug 13, 2019 at 07:37 pm by Staff

Laura Ungar, Kaiser Health News AKRON, Ohio -- Just before the Fourth of July, Trenton Burrell began feeling run-down and achy. Soon he could barely muster the energy to wal.... Read More

KHN's 'What The Health?': Gun Violence And The Politics Of Public Health

Aug 13, 2019 at 07:13 pm by Staff

Three mass shootings in eight days have refocused the nation's attention on the problem of gun violence -- and restarted the long-running debate over guns as a public hea.... Read More

Federal Experts' Advice On HPV Vaccine Could Leave Adults Confused

Aug 13, 2019 at 07:07 pm by Staff

. Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News Vaccination decisions are usually pretty straightforward. People either meet the criteria for the vaccine based on their age or other fa.... Read More

Central Florida Company Medek Solves Healthcare for Small Business

Aug 13, 2019 at 10:20 am by Staff

. ORLANDO - Medek Health Systems announces campaign to provide a no-cost team doctor for small business. As healthcare costs continue to climb, BIG companies like Google,.... Read More

Orlando Health Provides Stop the Bleed Training to Orange County Public Schools Employees

Aug 13, 2019 at 01:27 am by Staff

. Orlando Health and Orange County Public Schools spent the summer break focused on preparedness lessons. The adult and pediatric trauma teams from Orlando Health provided B.... Read More

CBD Regulatory Update

Aug 12, 2019 at 12:54 am by Staff

By MICHAEL PATTERSON With the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, Hemp and all by-products from hemp including CBD are now 100 percent legal...sort of. Congress passed the 201.... Read More

Care Coming Full Circle

Aug 08, 2019 at 08:44 pm by Staff

Growing up in Vietnam in the 1960s, Hiep Nguyen, MD, saw the realities of war firsthand. His father was a commanding officer in the South Vietnamese military who worked with A.... Read More

Dr. Naren Ramakrishna Talks Proton Therapy Now

Aug 08, 2019 at 08:11 pm by Staff

Naren Ramakrishna, MD, PhD, is the Director of Proton Therapy, and Neurologic and Pediatric Radiation Oncology, and Co-Director of the Brain and Spine Tumor Program at Orlando.... Read More

Orlando Health's Center for Proton Therapy Reaches a Milestone

Aug 08, 2019 at 07:30 pm by Staff

. Center has seen "strong growth" and "worldwide recognition" What began in 2006 as a continuing mission to develop advanced care for cancer patients, and in 2013 saw the d.... Read More

LRMC Honored by U.S. News & World Report's Annual Best Hospitals Ranking

Aug 07, 2019 at 05:09 pm by Staff

Leesburg Regional Medical Center was ranked as the number three hospital out of 20 hospitals in the Orlando metropolitan area by the U.S. News & World Report's annual Be.... Read More

August 2019 Digital Edition

Aug 06, 2019 at 06:01 pm by Staff

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Ocala Health Using Automated, Real-Time System to Detect Sepsis Early

Aug 06, 2019 at 01:26 am by Staff

HCA Healthcare's SPOT technology is an alert system that monitors patients 24/7 . Ocala Health, an affiliate of HCA Healthcare, has announced the successful implementati.... Read More

Pot Smokers and Anesthesiologists: The Need to Know

Aug 06, 2019 at 12:13 am by Staff

Kate Ruder, Kaiser Health News DENVER -- When Colorado legalized marijuana, it became a pioneer in creating new policies to deal with the drug. Now the state's surgeons, nur.... Read More

U.S. News & World Report Names Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center Among Best in Lakeland Metro Area

Aug 05, 2019 at 11:58 pm by Staff

Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center has been recognized as a Best Hospital for 2019-20 by U.S. News & World Report. Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center is r.... Read More