A new monitoring system can dramatically improve hospital patient care and even save lives, according to its manufacture. The EarlySense System reports respiratory signs, heart rate and motion in real time via a sensor placed under the hospital bed’s mattress. The information is transferred immediately to a monitor in the patient’s room, the system’s Patient Care Manager installed at the nurses’ station, as ...

Pay for Performance Healthcare is an effort to increase the quality of medical care in the U.S. while at the same time reigning in the often staggering costs. While pay for performance, or P4P, has been in existence since at least the early 1990s, its use is expected to intensify as the Affordable Healthcare Act goes into effect. ...

Deciding on an allied health career to enter is just the first choice for students. Picking the right school can be just as important, and there are many different factors to consider. ...

Even as the economy struggles to work its way out of a recession, jobs in the allied health industry continue to grow. Among the fastest-growing professions are audiologist, nuclear medicine technologist, pharmacy technician, surgical technologist and speech-language pathologist. ...

No matter what draws people to Allied Health fields, they are rewarded with a career in which they spend their days helping people lead healthier lives. They also will find themselves in some of the fastest-growing, secure jobs in the country. ...