Inpatients at Mountain States Health Alliance have forms attached to their beds, but instead of vital statistics, these forms note their favorite foods, special memories and other personal details.
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The tools required to remake the beleaguered U.S. healthcare system into one that's safe, cost-effective and patient-centered are available right now, according to an Institute of Medicine report.
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Last Wednesday, I asked Maureen McKinney, one of our reporters, for a copy of the Institute of Medicine's new report, Best Care at Lower Cost. The 382-page report was truly a showstopper.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a new report that it plans to improve its post-market surveillance system for medical devices, in part by establishing a unique device identification system.
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Healthcare job growth continued to drag in August as hospital hiring remained sluggish and physician offices added a mere 700 jobs. Healthcare added 16,700 jobs last month, a gain of 0.1%, to bring the industry's total employment to 14.4 million jobs, according to seasonally adjusted estimates...
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HHS, through its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has decided to punt on its previous drive to regulate the proposed nationwide health information network. In May, the ONC published a formal request for information—chiefly a list of more than 60...
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According to the CMS' latest report, 3,884 hospitals and 267,221 physicians and other eligible professionals are now enrolled in the three federally funded electronic health-record system incentive payment programs. The numbers are based on data available through July. So far, the...
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St. Joseph Health and Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian have received federal antitrust clearance for their plan to form a new regional health system in Southern California. The Federal Trade Commission gave early clearance to the affiliation, in which nine-hospital St. Joseph, Orange, would...
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The tools required to remake the beleaguered U.S. healthcare system into one that's safe, cost-effective and patient-centered are available right now, according to an Institute of Medicine report.
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As the nation debates health reform along with its choices for president, two health economists last week said the public sector could best serve innovation by following private markets' lead.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Congress cannot unduly coerce states into expanding their Medicaid programs, causing healthcare legal experts to think it was only a matter of time before states started applying that reasoning to other aspects of the reform law they didn't like. The state...
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By mandating that the Veterans Affairs Department contract with community-based providers, the Obama administration aims to improve mental healthcare for the millions of service members who served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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A new cost-containment law in Massachusetts is facing concerns about whether it will hamstring hospitals as it attempts to hold down healthcare spending.
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Officials from Ascension Health Alliance said they hope the company's planned acquisition of Marian Health System will successfully pair Marian's strong brand across four states with the country's largest Roman Catholic provider to better position the two for healthcare reform.
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Acute-care hospital and nursing home industry representatives are asking the CMS to overhaul the way the Medicare program classifies and reimburses for patients who are treated in a hospital for a short time.
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Democrats used their presidential convention to launch the largest and most emotional sales pitch for the healthcare overhaul since it was enacted two years ago.
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Laws forcing healthcare providers to get state permission before entering new markets have never lacked for critics, but attorneys opposing the laws have recently seized upon a new legal theory that says the requirements may violate the Constitution.
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In early 2011, a team of clinicians and IT specialists at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital convened a work group to address delirium, one of the most dangerous complications affecting older adults.
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Inpatients at Mountain States Health Alliance have forms attached to their beds, but instead of vital statistics, these forms note their favorite foods, special memories and other personal details.
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Through its systemic approach to quality, Mountain States Health Alliance has positioned itself to have a regional role in the world of accountable care.
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Last Wednesday, I asked Maureen McKinney, one of our reporters, for a copy of the Institute of Medicine's new report, Best Care at Lower Cost. The 382-page report was truly a showstopper.
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“Government mandated healthcare, as called for in the Affordable Care Act, would provide health insurance for most Americans, but it does not solve our access problem, nor will it drive down costs. … Healthcare in America is so expensive because it is a controlled and inefficient market...
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I've spent my career as a hospital administrator talking about the need for institutional values, but it's not always easy to walk the walk, especially when a crisis erupts and the most expedient response is often the unethical one—I learned that the day we lost a corpse.
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Regarding “Ryan: Plan is bipartisan," Medicare was enacted 47 years ago to provide a medical safety net for those who were lucky enough to live longer than average. It has become a welfare program, even for the...
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A list of the nation's 12 largest publicly traded healthcare real estate investment trusts ranked by market capitalization, as of July 31. Source: National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. Published Sept. 10, 2012, p. 34.
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Susan Boland has been named president of the division of Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare that includes the system's All Saints Hospital in Racine, Wis., succeeding Ken Buser, who is retiring. Boland is senior VP and COO at All Saints and will assume Buser's role as president of Wheaton...
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Looking at adorable cat pictures on the Internet may be a bit of a national obsession, and the American Public Health Association is looking to tap into that feline fascination through a new disaster preparedness contest.
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The full sequence of the human genome—some 3 billion base pairs, including 20,500 genes—was published in April 2003. Yet nearly 10 years on, we have yet to see evidence of any avalanche of new drugs that can capitalize on that knowledge and specifically interact with DNA at the...
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