Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled his plan Wednesday that will put $1 billion into addressing North Carolina’s mental health and substance use crisis.
Published: Saturday, April 1st, 2023 @ 12:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU-led telepsychiatry program earns state award for technology innovation
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2022 @ 11:17 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Treasured Pirates recognized for outstanding contributions to ECU
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 12:50 pm
By: ECU News Services
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From Medicaid changes to increased resources for behavioral health, to higher monetary thresholds for requiring Certificate of Need, the budget bill touches on key healthcare policy issues.
Published: Tuesday, June 29th, 2021 @ 3:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers gave Wake Forest Baptist Health $100,000 for random antibody testing to gather data on how many N.C. residents had the coronavirus.
Published: Monday, April 20th, 2020 @ 4:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Since the beginning of his Administration, President Trump has put patients first so every American has the highest quality of healthcare in the world.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 8:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, at the opening of the 2019 Opioid Summit, Governor Roy Cooper highlighted the state’s progress in addressing the opioid epidemic over the last two years and launched the updated Opioid Action Plan 2.0 to continue to combat this issue in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 8:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The House has unanimously passed legislation to add North Carolina to a compact of states that would share psychological services in short supply.
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 10:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I want to thank ... VA nominee Robert Wilkie, who is going to do an incredible job at the VA with our veterans.
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 @ 8:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Legislative Republicans and Democrats bristled at excuses Department of Health and Human Services officials gave Tuesday over their failure to create a mandated watchdog program
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 4:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) supported the 21st Century Cures Act, bipartisan legislation that increases funding for Alzheimer's and cancer research, strengthens and improves important mental health programs, and gives additional money to fight the opioid crisis across the nation.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 9:52 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Secretary Rick Brajer announced today that Dr. Warren Newton, a leading health educator in North Carolina, has agreed to serve the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services as a senior medical advisor to help shape Medicaid reform, while continuing his current role as director of...
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 @ 7:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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All claims brought by the Town of Belhaven and the NC NAACP in the recent lawsuit against Vidant Health have been dismissed in their entirety.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 1:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health has been recognized as one of the nation's "Most Wired" health systems in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2015 @ 10:37 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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There are "widespread differences" that are "not what you would call easy" to resolve between House and Senate health care budgets, is state Rep. William Brisson's assessment of budget deliberations in the N.C. General Assembly.
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Health and the Veterans Administration (VA) are working together to share health information on veterans treated at Vidant Health facilities. The VA's Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Exchange program gives VA and non-VA health care providers secure access to certain parts of
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015 @ 3:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The clinical practice of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has been recognized for significantly improving patient care through the use of their electronic medical record system.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2015 @ 11:58 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Clinical data experts at Vidant Health are using sophisticated information collection and analysis to determine patterns that could identify which patients are most at risk for sepsis - and perhaps prevent them from getting sicker.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 10:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There's still time to register for the new Medical Office Specialist Program under way at Beaufort County Community College.
Published: Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 @ 11:16 pm
By: Chris Downey
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All ECU Physicians clinics are now offering patients access to their own electronic health records through a secure online patient portal called MyChart.
Published: Saturday, December 27th, 2014 @ 12:57 am
By: ECU News Services
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Medicaid takes a serious bite out of North Carolina's budget. Of the General Fund's $5 billion allocated to the Department of Health and Human Services, Medicaid devours a solid $3 billion. But if we step back and account for Medicaid's total cost - state and federal funds combined - tax...
Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 @ 11:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the North Carolina medical community presses ahead with a sweeping conversion to electronic health records, privacy advocates warn that confidential medical data is in jeopardy, and patients' most intimate health information could be used in harmful ways against them.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A multimillion-dollar computer system to collect and analyze massive amounts of statewide medical data and designed to improve North Carolina health...
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 10:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the moment, Beaufort Regional Health System seems to be making some real progress down the much-debated dual-track approach to saving the Washington-based hospital.
Published: Sunday, July 25th, 2010 @ 5:21 pm
By: BCN
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