> Community Health Systems continues to divest properties, this time by selling a 75-bed Louisiana hospital. Article [1]
> New Orleans activists are fighting to get the city's Charity Hospital re-opened, saying that the facility is desperately needed. It had once served as the primary service point for uninsured patients. Article [2]
> An Orlando hospital has become one of the first hospitals in the Southeastern U.S. to offer minimally invasive, robotically-assisted surgery to reverse tubal sterilization in women. Article [3]
> County board members are complaining that workers aren't being moved quickly enough from the shuttered King/Drew hospital to other facilities. Article [4]
> A federal health IT official claims that the U.S. will indeed be able to give all Americans access to EMRs by 2014. FierceHealthIT [5]
> The market for remote patient marketing should grow dramatically over the next five years, according to a new study. FierceHealthIT [6]
And Finally... Watch out--microwave popcorn can be hazardous to your health. Article [7]
Links:
[1] http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070904/REG/309040022
[2] http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-3/118888631184180.xml&coll=1
[3] http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2007/09/03/daily4.html?b=1188792000^1515269
[4] http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-me-kingharbor5sep05,1,4904035.story?coll=la-headlines-health&ctrack=8&cset=true
[5] http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/u-s-track-reach-seven-year-it-adoption-goals/2007-09-04
[6] http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/trend-remote-patient-monitoring-market-growing/2007-09-04
[7] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/05popcorn.html?_r=1&ref=health&oref=slogin