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Recent Articles from Alissa Gulin
Biotech awards focus on health care innovation
A state program that supports commercialization of biotechnology research is shifting its focus, and will now favor projects that can help improve health care quality while reducing costs.
Marylanders have to re-enroll on new health exchange
Remember that time you spent hours trying to enroll for health insurance on the state-run exchange, Maryland Health Connection?Yeah, you have to do it again.
Data-mining in the nursing home?
The real value of electronic health records, experts say, is that they enable data-mining, which can help optimize patient care.
Medical examiner didn’t obey procurement rules
The state medical examiner’s office failed to comply with government procurement rules repeatedly over the past several years, according to an audit released Monday.
Nursing homes lag behind on electronic records
Nursing homes and post-acute health facilities that don't use electronic health records are going to get left behind, health experts say.
Hopkins’ food ranked No. 2
Choices like manicotti puttanesca earned Johns Hopkins University the No. 2 spot on a list of the 75 “Best Colleges for Food in America.”
JHU: Feds reviewing sex assault complaint
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for how it handled a sexual assault allegation.
Hopkins’ public health school bans tobacco – sort of
Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health just announced the launch of its “Tobacco-Free Campus Initiative,” but that’s a bit of a misnomer.
About half of Md. college students report binge drinking
A sizable number of Maryland college students say they have experienced negative consequences of drinking, like performing poorly on a test, and the vast majority say alcohol is easy to access. And almost half of them say they’ve engaged in binge drinking.
UMMC expands domestic violence program
The University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore has received $70,000 to expand its domestic violence prevention program.
GBMC to unveil $1.2M center to treat rare disorder
The Greater Baltimore Medical Center will soon unveil a $1.2 million research and treatment center focused on Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a rare disorder affecting the tissues that connect skin, bones and ligaments.
New Maryland health exchange gets final approval
Federal regulators have approved the Maryland health insurance exchange's work to replace the website’s faulty technology with Connecticut’s successful system.
