Despite all the buzz in the industry and in Washington about healthcare information technology, when it comes to spending, respondents to the 18th annual Modern Healthcare Survey of Executive Opinions on Key Information Technology Issues say...
Two new proposed rules that would give states a wider berth to tailor their Medicaid plans to better fit their patient population drew fire from at least one member of Congress—Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), chairman of the House Energy and...
The indictment last week of Lacy Thomas, former chief executive officer of the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, is just the first in a series of expected moves by local authorities to make accountable those who allegedly treated the public...
After not-for-profit hospitals free themselves from the burden of skyrocketing interest rates on the tax-exempt debt side of the coin, they can then look forward to facing the fluctuating rates of return on the investment side.
If healthcare providers want to establish effective emergency-response plans, they need to embrace a concept that could contradict the very way they do business: collaboration first, hospital mission second.
Despite long odds and a collective thumbs down from the hospital industry lobby and other interest groups, a proposed healthcare bill sent from the White House to Capitol Hill two weeks ago could inch forward with a push from lawmakers, though the...
There is fast-growing interest in the use of healthcare technology among consumers, according to a new survey conducted by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
A U.S. Supreme Court opinion ending a widow’s pursuit of damages from Medtronic over a ruptured balloon catheter forecloses some lawsuits against medical-device makers but is expected to have limited impact on providers, observers said.
Kermit the Frog’s classic lament that “It’s not easy being green” is one that no doubt resonates among the growing number of materials managers charged with introducing more environmentally friendly products and services into their hospitals’ supply...
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland won’t abandon collective bargaining with independent home-care workers for Medicaid pay even though the Federal Trade Commission’s staff concluded the new arrangement runs afoul of federal antitrust law, according to an FTC...
It’s not that easy for medical schools to expand their class sizes to meet the rising demand for physicians, the Association of American Medical Colleges concluded in a recent analysis.
The healthcare industry seems to have finally realized a universal truth about hospitals: Most people don’t want to be in one—even the people who work there—so executives are finally doing something about it.
Despite all the buzz in the industry and in Washington about healthcare information technology, when it comes to spending, respondents to the 18th annual Modern Healthcare Survey of Executive Opinions on Key Information Technology Issues say...
There’s bad news and good news for the healthcare information technology promoters at HHS, those dedicated public servants working to help the nation realize President Bush’s goal of affording most Americans access to an electronic health record by...
The quest for computerized physician order entry has been one of fits and starts—mostly fits—since 1972, when aerospace contractor Lockheed Corp. and El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., teamed up to develop what is generally regarded as the...
What’s the hot flavor in healthcare information technology? Plain vanilla, according to healthcare leaders responding to the annual Modern Healthcare IT survey.
MILFORD, Mass.—A new Cancer Center at Milford (Mass.) Regional Medical Center has opened its doors as part of a push targeting the Boston suburbs. The 54,000-square-foot, $25 million facility is a collaboration between 121-bed Milford...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan refiled an antitrust lawsuit alleging two dominant physician practices conspired to reject new Medicaid patients and force the state to pay doctors more for care under the program. In...
Not since the mid-1990s have health insurers been under siege from so many quarters. This time around, it isn’t managed-care gatekeepers sparking the outrage. It’s a range of tactics that underscore the fact that health plans are raking in enormous...
Getting better healthcare information into the hands of people who need it is our business at Ingenix. Our company has been in the news as a result of the New York attorney general’s investigation into the healthcare industry’s use of actual...
In every era, technology holds the promise of the future and the intrigue of the present. The concept of healthcare information technology interoperability plays that role in healthcare today. Improved patient care, fewer medical errors and lower...
The Bush administration’s promised savings in Medicaid and Medicare amounts to a shell game (“Hospitals as budget target,” Feb. 11, p. 6.) Someone has to pay for healthcare. If we don’t all contribute in tax-based income distribution, there will be...
Not long before he retired from the top post at the Joint Commission, Dennis O’Leary suggested that those entering a hospital should bring along a friend to help keep them safe from harm. Most people in healthcare would agree with O’Leary’s warning.
New Hampshire Hospital Association President and CEO Michael Hill, 62, will retire from his position at the end of the year, according to a news release. Hill has led the organization, whose membership includes 32 acute- and specialty-care...
In the first physician-satisfaction survey on insurers made public, the Harris County (Texas) Medical Society recently gave poor marks to six Houston-area health insurers, saying the companies have failed patients, employers and doctors on...
In what must have seemed like a cruel irony, Christopher De Rosa learned of his reassignment within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last October when he attended an annual event in Italy honoring the legacy of Bernardino Ramazzini,...
