MedStar Health News

(Washington, D.C.,) - The Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals lifted holiday spirits during the team’s annual December visit to patients at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. The ...

Advanced Technology Offers Hope to Qualified Patients Needing Replacement  BALTIMORE— Dr. John Wang, chief of the cardiac catheterization lab, and his team at MedStar Union Memor...

Columbia, MD (December 17, 2018) Diagnosis-related events are the single largest root cause of medical professional liability claims, according to the Coverys report, Dose of Insight: Diagnostic Accur...

Study of Stroke Prevention Device Which May Give Physicians More Flexibility in Optimal Cardiac Positioning   Washington, D.C., June 12, 2018 – MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute...

New Surgical Pavilion Construction to Begin in January   BALTIMORE—(Dec. 3, 2018)—MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center broke ground Dec. 3 on a new $70 million, two-story surgical pavilion, to exp...

On Nov. 29, 2018, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a viewpoint article titled, “Improving Electronic Health Record Usability and Safety Requires Transparency,” by authors from MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, American Medical Association, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.