Looming cuts to low-income healthcare assistance program Medicaid are creating budgeting challenges for administrators at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.The hospital’s $1.7 billion budget will remain flat this year and Cincinnati Children’s plan to keep its employee count steady at around 12,650 workers, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Cincinnati Children’s budget will stay flat despite an [...]

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has been awarded a $12 million federal grant to conduct a clinical trial aimed at determining the best migraine-prevention treatment for children and teens.The five-year study will involve 675 children ages 8 to 17 years old and compare two drugs often prescribed to treat childhood migraines — amitriptyline and topiramate. [...]

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a four-year, $2.8 million federal grant to participate in a national study aimed at preventing asthma in inner-city children.The asthma research is being done as part of an 11-site group called the Inner City Asthma Consortium, which was formed in 2002 by the National Institute of Allergy and [...]

By creating a free or “open” platform that allows people to share and analyze medical information, the system can tap the collective intelligence of the world to improve technology and solve global problems. In other words, 6 billion brains are better than one.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has been awarded an $11.7 million grant to compare the effectiveness of the three leading medications for childhood absence epilepsy.

An Aurora, Ohio subsidiary of GE Healthcare is teaming with clinicians and researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Ohio State University to find better ways to take magnetic resonance images of children.GEHC Coils Inc. in Aurora — the former USA Instruments Inc. — will use a $1 million Ohio Third Frontier grant to [...]

Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare: Is telehealth’s time finally here? Like many emerging technologies, it seems like we’ve been hearing about the promise of telehealth (or if you prefer telemedicine) for years and haven’t seen much to justify the hype. But several factors appear to be coming together [...]

Researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have received $2.3 million in federal grants to continue research into treatments for leukemia and bone marrow failure.The two grants come from the National Institutes of Health and are intended to help fund five years of research, according to a statement from Cincinnati Children’s.The first grant totals $1.04 [...]

Lowe’s Companies Inc. looked at what it was paying for heart treatments across the country and didn’t like what it saw, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. So the home-improvement retailer went shopping, choosing the Cleveland Clinic. Could this practice become a model for health care reform?

Tim Moran still remembers hearing his prematurely born daughter scream when an adult-sized cannula was inserted in her mouth and taped to her face to deliver oxygen. Several years later, Moran has started PediaWorks, a not-for-profit organization that will work with medical professionals to develop pediatric medical devices, spinning off for-profit companies to commercialize those devices.