The doctor doesn’t have to see you now. Thanks to new technology, patients may not always need a face-to-face visit with their doctor to get the care they need.
Legislative and regulatory scrutiny from all sides in recent years has pressured not-for-profit hospitals—much like for-profit public corporations—to respond to criticism in the blink of an eye. But the governing boards charged with steering these...
Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas, said its North Ridge Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is for sale. The company prefers other growth opportunities to spending its capital on North Ridge, and believes that another local operator could more...
The doctor doesn’t have to see you now. Thanks to new technology, patients may not always need a face-to-face visit with their doctor to get the care they need.
While insurance companies are getting behind greater electronic communication among doctors and their patients by paying for such care, Partners HealthCare System is forcing the use of electronic health records on the physicians in its community...
Bad debt and losses from Medicare likely won’t make the cut when the Internal Revenue Service sets its new criteria for how not-for-profit hospitals disclose the subsidized care and services they provide in exchange for tax breaks.
Federal lawmakers this week expect to take a second look at scaling back the Medicare Advantage program after provisions to rework the program were stripped out of a House bill—and shunned completely by the Senate—in an effort to pass children’s...
A bill clarifying medical debt collection practices while still upholding significant patient rights has been signed into law by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Lack of capital, use of a conservative investment approach and a case of timing that’s “not right” all are possible reasons why several Catholic healthcare providers declined Ascension Health’s invitation to join a new venture capital fund.
One of healthcare’s biggest nurses unions squared off against more than a dozen California hospitals last week, the latest example of labor’s push to exercise its clout across the healthcare industry.
The merger of the two largest ambulatory surgery center organizations in the U.S.—FASA and the American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers—will probably lead to the AAASC shutting down operations and handing over its assets to the larger...
When announcing the launch of Prometheus Payment in September 2006, the new not-for-profit organization set a lofty goal of igniting payment reform in healthcare.
Education and staffing issues— now and in the future—were key topics of discussion during the American Health Information Management Association’s annual convention last week in Philadelphia.
Legislative and regulatory scrutiny from all sides in recent years has pressured not-for-profit hospitals—much like for-profit public corporations—to respond to criticism in the blink of an eye. But the governing boards charged with steering these...
BURLINGTON, Vt.—Fletcher Allen Health Care, an academic health center that includes a 434-bed tertiary-care hospital and more than 30 patient-care sites, said late last month it is seeking state approval to create a $57.2 million electronic...
MEDINA, Ohio—Medina General Hospital may become a member of Cleveland-based University Hospitals’ network, according to a memorandum of understanding announced last month. The announcement did not describe the nature of the potential...
TULSA, Okla.—Ardent Health Services, Nashville, last month terminated the academic affiliation agreement between one of its Tulsa hospitals and the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Ardent and OSU have been battling...
The events of this year have only reinforced the harsh lessons of the past about the gargantuan task of reforming the U.S. healthcare system. As readers undoubtedly know, the evidence about the need for reform has never been stronger, as healthcare...
The mastery of knowledge required to serve successfully as a hospital trustee has increased dramatically over the past decade. Contrast the complex and rigorous process of educating potential trustees with recent New Jersey legislation requiring...
You stand a better chance of getting “heads” in a coin flip than U.S. children have of receiving high-quality healthcare—that is, the right care, delivered when they need it.
One of the things that bothers me the most is the abuse of animals, be they pets or in the wild. For the purposes of this column, I am going to focus on dogs because I am most familiar with them. Seven dogs have enriched my family’s experiences over...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, said Kern Wildenthal will retire as president in September 2008. Wildenthal, 66, has served as the medical center’s president since 1986. He will remain on the faculty as a tenured...
It’s well-known inside the Beltway that politics is a contact sport. But even boxing has different weight divisions so that lightweights don’t match up against bruisers twice their size. Politics, it seems, does not, as the Frost family of Baltimore...
