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NewsMass General color codes cafeteria food for healthier eating
Massachusetts General Hospital is applying a color-coding approach that has significantly encouraged healthier eating in the cafeteria, the Boston hospital said in a press release Thursday. Published Read more...
Leading hospitals enter anti-smoking pact
Ten Massachusetts hospitals, including some of the nation's leading hospitals, entered a citywide pact, committed to instituting smoke-free campuses. To coincide with the annual Great American Read more...
Tufts Medical Center sued for faxing patient records without consent
Tufts Medical Center in Boston faces a lawsuit after a patient said the hospital faxed her medical records to her workplace without her consent, causing her embarrassment, reports The Boston Globe Read more...
Harvard docs punished for conflict of interest violations; ties to pharma
Physicians and drug makers walk a fine line when it comes to their relationships with each other. For three psychiatrists affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Read more...
Beware of HIPAA enforcement crackdown, legal experts warn
Legal experts are warning hospital CEOs and compliance officers to heed the pricey lessons learned from recent multi-million dollar penalties incurred by Cignet Health and Massachusetts General Read more...
Depression lessened for heart disease patients with collaborative program
A hospital-initiated collaborative care program to treat depression, a common condition among cardiovascular disease patients, helped those patients show improvement with their depression, anxiety, Read more...
Mass General timeline highlights healthcare changes for better and worse
Higher prices may be the cost of medical progress. Two hundred years after the Massachusetts Legislature created Massachusetts General Hospital on Feb. 25, 1811, researchers found that the cost of Read more...
Patient info lost on subway earns MGH $1 million HIPAA fine
Massachusetts General Hospital will pay the U.S. government $1 million to settle what the feds are calling "potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule," according to a statement issued by the Read more...
Late-stage cancer care varies widely by hospital, region
How late-stage cancer patients are treated varies widely by region and hospital, according to a new Dartmouth Atlas Project report. For the study, researchers analyzed records for 236,000 Medicare Read more...
Massachusetts General earns $1B via fundraising
Massachusetts General Hospital earned $1 billion fundraising, well on its way toward reaching its $1.5 billion goal--the most ambitious campaign in New England. The money will pay for the hospital's Read more...
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