New Jersey gained three spots over last year's ranking in the American Health Rankings report, commissioned by UnitedHealth Foundation.

Laura Lark will be responsible for identifying and implementing best practices in emergency departments across the health care system.

The independent scoring system assigns a letter grade to general acute-care hospitals based on their ability to protect patients from avoidable errors, injuries, accidents and infections. In New Jersey 68 were evaluated.

The Tennessee location will be Somerset-based PharmScript’s 15th pharmacy.

Through The Physicians Foundation Interoperability Fund, HIE participants can access patient data regardless of where the patient received care.

The legislation would require the Department of Human Services to establish a three-year demonstration project to employ outcome-based payment systems for a limited number of prescription drugs covered under the program.

The “black box warning” is placed on a drug label if medical studies indicate that the drug carries a significant risk of serious or life-threatening adverse effects.  A “black box warning” is the strongest warning required by the FDA.

Senate Bill 845 was released from committee by a vote of 8-1 and next heads to the Budget and Appropriations Committee for further consideration.

“Our aging population deserves to know that their civil rights will be protected, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity," bill-sponsor Sen. Troy Singleton said of the legislation, which cleared the Senate Health, Human Services, and Senior Citizens Committee on Monday.

The Whippany-based company responded to a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of Pilliod v. Monsanto, the first in the glyphosate JCCP coordinated proceeding to go to trial.

At the health system, Dr. Andrew Pecora's contributions include creating the cancer center at Hackensack University Medical Center, leading Hackensack Meridian Health’s care transformation efforts with its executives, and developing and implementing the health network’s bundles program.