History books tell us the American Civil War officially ended on April 9, 1865. That one is easy to fact-check. But what about a more recent conflict that's described as the nation's civility war?
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Chasing the national mandates for efficiency and coordinated care, St. Luke's Health System in Idaho has devoted large sums to buying up doctors' offices and consolidating key markets.
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Welcome to Modern Healthcare's 10th annual CEO IT Achievement Awards program, co-sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The three honorees for 2012 are Dr. Steven Altschuler, CEO of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Lynn Britton, president and CEO of Mercy in...
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About 30 states will not move forward on creation of state-based exchanges until after both a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the federal healthcare overhaul and the November presidential election, according to the head of the agency.
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Just weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, House Republicans continued their efforts to dismantle the 2010 law with a vote to repeal a considerable excise tax on medical devices. House members voted 270-146 to approve...
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A Texas-based medical-device company agreed to pay more than $34 million to settle allegations that it improperly waived patient copayments, received overpayments from the federal government and paid kickbacks to physicians. According to a news release from the Justice Department, Lewisville,...
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Chasing the national mandates for efficiency and coordinated care, St. Luke's Health System in Idaho has devoted large sums to buying up doctors' offices and consolidating key markets.
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Healthcare companies in all segments of the industry have a greater appetite for deals than last year, but they've also been looking for more digestible buys.
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Prominent hospital chief executives have called on their peers to endorse broad priorities for healthcare efficiency and effectiveness, invoking the framework of checklists promoted to catch clinical errors and improve quality of care.
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Hospital and physician executives may get some clarity in the closely watched arena of beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid with a new set of quality measures from a federally convened committee.
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New rules in Illinois that would link hospitals' state and property tax exemptions to their charity-care levels also gave an unusual nod to for-profit providers.
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The newly named chief executive of Highmark will face significant challenges when he arrives in July, not the least being the need to bring some stability to an organization trying to achieve an ambitious makeover.
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(This story has been updated with a correction.)The potential merger of NYU Langone Medical Center with Continuum Health Partners moved closer to a deal as the New York hospital operators signed a memorandum of understanding.
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A 10-year partnership with the University of Tabuk System in Saudi Arabia marks the next step in Ochsner Health System's international strategy.
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When Dr. Steven Altschuler became CEO of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2000, he knew the world of pediatric medicine was in the midst of big changes.
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At Mercy health system, the technology hasn't always kept up with the vision—but leadership has felt strongly and been patient enough to watch closely, wait out the development process and move forward when the moment felt right.
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Virtua, a four-hospital system serving southern New Jersey, is so deeply committed to information technology that when it opened a new data center, the board of trustees held a meeting there, sitting among the rows of servers. That same board has a standing IT committee that meets every two months,...
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Welcome to Modern Healthcare's 10th annual CEO IT Achievement Awards program, co-sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. In this special editorial section, you'll meet the three recipients for 2012:
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Health information technology can play a key role in improving the quality of healthcare, and the 2012 winners of the CEO IT Achievement Awards competition are all strong advocates of leveraging technology to transform healthcare delivery.
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Health information technology continues to lead the way to better healthcare delivery, a statement exemplified by the three CEOs selected as the recipients of the 2012 CEO IT Achievement Awards. I am honored to congratulate these...
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History books tell us the American Civil War officially ended on April 9, 1865. That one is easy to fact-check. But what about a more recent conflict that's described as the nation's civility war?
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“New estimates the Congressional Budget Office released underscore that Medicare must change, a lot. … Congress' nonpartisan budget analysts project that spending on major federal healthcare programs would nearly double over the next 25 years under current policies, from 5.4% of gross...
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A list of the seven states that have the most health information exchanges, based on participants from eHealth Initiative's annual survey of HIEs. Source: eHealth Initiative. Published June 11, 2012, p. 34.
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Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital's president and CEO, Ron Hytoff, plans to retire. Hytoff, 66, has been CEO since February 2000. The hospital said it would immediately begin a nationwide search to replace Hytoff, who will remain at the helm through the transition or until no later than June...
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Whereas terms such as “reimbursement” instead of “payment” and “provider” instead of “physician” really get on some doctors' nerves, the 22,000-member Maryland State Medical Society has resolved to do something about it.
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Complaints about wait times to see family physicians. Anger over government pay cuts for specialists. Specialists threatening to leave town. That was the news recently—for our friends to the north in Ontario, Canada.
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“Thirty-three years ago, I was in your shoes. Most of you hadn't been born! It was the analog era—no such thing as a personal computer or Internet or cellphone. Bandwidth was related to a wristwatch and clouds were something in the sky. Google wasn't even a word, no less a verb. No...
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