Despite all the hoopla in the past two years about healthcare information technology, when it comes to allocating money to buy IT systems, healthcare executives have been, by and large, unmoved, according to responses to the annual Modern Healthcare...
With new leadership on Capitol Hill and a national election on the horizon, presidential hopefuls, healthcare coalitions and special-interest groups have been virtually tripping over one another to have their say on how best to whittle down the...
Medicaid’s future isn’t as dire as previous estimates have suggested, according to a new report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured published online by Health Affairs. Expected growth in government revenues will probably be...
With new leadership on Capitol Hill and a national election on the horizon, presidential hopefuls, healthcare coalitions and special-interest groups have been virtually tripping over one another to have their say on how best to whittle down the...
Bad-debt expense, along with weak patient volume, has been a drag on the profits of investor-owned hospital companies for the past three years. In 2006, for-profit hospital companies recorded about $300 million in accounting charges related to...
Despite the moderating growth of healthcare spending found in CMS projections released last week, industry executives and officials say an overhaul is still clearly needed.
The bright prospect of pay-for-performance as a key therapy for America’s ailing healthcare system appears to have dimmed a bit in just the past 12 months or so.
For physicians, 2006 was a forgettable year in terms of pricing, judging by the two federal gauges of price inflation: the Consumer Price Index and the Producer Price Index.
The number of licensed nurses has been on the upswing, newly released federal figures show, which is welcome news for hospitals seeking relief from a shortage projected to worsen in coming years. Perhaps less welcome: The figures show wages rose,...
The trial pitting the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati against three hospitals seeking to withdraw from the system began last week with the two sides lashing out.
A compromise reached recently between two rival standards groups in the arcane world of data communications standards could help bridge the gap between hospitals and physician offices and the electronic health-record systems they use, experts close...
Despite all the hoopla in the past two years about healthcare information technology, when it comes to allocating money to buy IT systems, healthcare executives have been, by and large, unmoved, according to responses to the annual Modern Healthcare...
Moving toward an electronic health record remained the top healthcare information technology systems priority, although other applications gained ground, according to respondents to this year’s Modern Healthcare IT survey.
When David Brailer first stepped onto the national stage in the spring of 2004, he laid out an ambitious program for promoting healthcare information technology that included leveraging hospitals’ investments in IT systems to benefit their...
Computerized physician order entry was a futuristic curiosity when it was first rolled out in the early ’70s at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif.
This is the 17th year Modern Healthcare has conducted a survey of senior healthcare executives concerning healthcare information technology issues. This year, 344 respondents participated in the online survey.
LOS ANGELES—A $150 million, 146-bed inpatient tower was opened at USC University Hospital, giving the hospital 415 beds, said Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas. The new tower also includes
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—Baystate Medical Center plans to launch a $259 million expansion project that will add about 560,000 square feet of space to the facility, officials announced. Officials with the 632-bed hospital—the largest healthcare...
HUNTINGBURG, Ind.—St. Joseph’s Hospital, a stand-alone critical-access hospital, last month shut down after transferring its last patients to other facilities. St. Joseph’s, a one-time Catholic hospital located about 40 miles northeast of...
This has turned into another Year of the Uninsured. The PowerPoint presentations are being churned out almost as fast as a cable news commentator can form an opinion. Last week, the Federation of American Hospitals weighed in with a plan to have...
With the launch of major Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society educational programs in Europe and Asia this year, we have learned that the healthcare issues faced on those continents, as well as here in the U.S., have more in common...
I just finished reading Jacob Hacker’s plan for the uninsured (“Reform beyond access,” Feb. 12, p. 20). Those of us who spend our time in the healthcare trenches recognize that providing access to the uninsured is a critical component of any...
The conversation started off innocently enough, and it was certainly anything but contentious. By chance I was asked to help interview a job candidate while I was visiting some friends in Florida. My host runs a company that has grown rapidly over...
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton (N.J.) named three people to senior management positions. Paul Pernice, 43, was named senior vice president and CFO; Francisco Javier Villota, 45, was named vice president of medical affairs; and...
Home health nursing provider Amedisys, Baton Rouge, La. said John Giblin, the company’s CFO for the past four months, has resigned, effective last week.
Tammie Brailsford was named COO of MemorialCare Medical Centers, Long Beach, Calif. Brailsford, 46, replaces Frances Henckel, who retired after two decades with the healthcare organization. Brailsford joined MemorialCare in 2003 as senior vice...
Woodrow Hathaway Jr. is finding it’s a lot easier to work with doctors as a medical-practice administrator than to butt heads with them from time to time as the top executive of a hospital. A longtime hospital administrator, he is now the chief...
These days, global positioning systems are used for multiple purposes, but pinpointing the location of tumors in prostate-cancer patients seemed extraordinary to us.
