Four East Coast hospitals were forced to evacuate after flooding damaged backup generators. Those well-publicized failures are raising questions about the rules on where generators are located.
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President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, but his signature was not the law's final stamp of approval.
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Nearly three years into a federal incentive program to get providers to adopt electronic health records, hospital executives on the leading edge of that push see it turning a corner.
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The American Hospital Association and many of its members have long been disgruntled with Medicare's recovery audit contractor program, which rewards contractors with a share of the money they return to the government after combing through paid claims for errors.
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Four East Coast hospitals were forced to evacuate after flooding damaged backup generators. Those well-publicized failures are raising questions about the rules on where generators are located.
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In the confusing aftermath of superstorm Sandy, rumors flew across the Internet. The New York Stock Exchange had flooded. A hospital in Brooklyn was burning. Utility company Consolidated Edison was cutting power to all of Manhattan.
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The Dartmouth Atlas Project and the nation's teaching hospitals have had their differences before, but a new report issued by the group made those differences a little more personal.
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A new initiative from some of the nation's large employer groups just added another item to the 2014 to-do list for health plans and providers: Make healthcare price data available to employees and consumers.
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In New York City, where several hospitals were evacuated due to power outages and flooding, New York's statewide health information exchange ran without a flicker, fulfilling the promise of health information technology brought into focus by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated Gulf Coast healthcare...
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The healthcare community's reaction to superstorm Sandy offers an example of how usually highly competitive hospital executives cooperate during times of crisis. But the federal government and an increasing number of hospitals and health systems are pushing for more cooperation among competing...
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The growing adoption of complex health technology in hospitals is expected to reduce errors and improve the quality of care, but increased utilization of health IT-based technologies comes with its own set of risks for healthcare providers.
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The Cleveland Clinic's list of top medical innovations for 2013 delivers the gee-whiz factor—a procedure for “cleansing” donor lungs and an almond-sized device implanted in the gums to relieve migraine headaches.
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The deadline is today for submitting nominations for the ninth annual ranking of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare. Modern Healthcare and sister publication Modern Physician co-sponsor this annual recognition program. Readers can nominate as many physicians as they want, as...
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Missed medical appointments disrupt schedules, potentially leaving doctors and nurses with gaps in the workday. But beyond the hassles, they can leave providers with a financial gap as well.
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Nearly three years into a federal incentive program to get providers to adopt electronic health records, hospital executives on the leading edge of that push see it turning a corner.
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Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Clinical Informaticists recognition program honors medical professionals who excel at using patient-care data to improve the clinical and financial performance of their healthcare organizations.
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After much speculation, Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, Mich., and Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, signed a letter of intent to merge, creating a new not-for-profit system with eight hospitals in Southeast Michigan.
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DEXTER, Mo.—SunLink Health Systems, Atlanta, sold its interest in Missouri Southern Healthcare to the Southeast Missouri Hospital Association, Cape Girardeau, in a $9.8 million deal. The transaction is expected to yield net proceeds of about $7 million. Robert Thornton, chairman and...
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MADISONVILLE, Ky.—Baptist Health, Louisville, Ky., acquired Trover Health System, Madisonville, which becomes its eighth hospital in the state. Trover, which includes the 177-bed Regional Medical Center of Hopkins County, will be renamed Baptist Health Madisonville. Financial terms...
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DENVILLE, N.J.—Ascension Health Care Network ended its negotiations to buy St. Clare's Health System in Denville from Catholic Health Initiatives. In March, the board of St. Clare's, which has four campuses in New Jersey, recommended the sale to the Ascension Health Care Network, a...
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ASHLAND, Ore.—Dignity Health broke off talks with Ashland Community Hospital, the first hospital Dignity announced it was negotiating to acquire after rebranding itself in early 2012 and setting its sights on expanding nationwide. Neither side said why the deal fell apart, citing a...
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“Many newspapers will endorse presidential candidates. … We do deal with facts surrounding the campaigns on an almost daily basis. It's the consideration of those facts that leads the editorial board to prefer one candidate over another. Except this year. This year, (the...
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President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, but his signature was not the law's final stamp of approval.
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“We all know we need to be careful stewards of our healthcare dollars. But if we can't get at the price information, it's just not doable." It is a complaint and concern we hear frequently working with large employers and other healthcare purchasers, such as state public employee and retiree...
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A list of the nation's 20 largest healthcare finance companies, ranked by amount of syndicated loans in the healthcare sector underwritten in 2011. Source: Dealogic. Published Nov. 5, 2012, p. 34.
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Two longtime executives at Nashville-based HCA will retire March 31: W. Paul Rutledge, 57, president of HCA's Central Group, and Russell Harms, 54, the Central Group's CFO. HCA's Central Group includes more than 50 hospitals in the U.S. and the U.K. Rutledge joined HCA in 1982 as COO...
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The Michigan Nurses Association wasn't very impressed by a joke about superstorm Sandy posted last week online by the Detroit News.The Detroit News, @detnews, re-tweeted this joke from a follower: “BREAKING: Frankenstorm upgraded to Count Stormula #sandy.”
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The research is in. A short power nap that allows the mind to revitalize itself in just a brief respite from the waking world can improve alertness and cognitive function, according to a report in Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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