How sad that it took Newtown, Connecticut's horrific tragedy to finally focus the nation's attention on two pressing public health problems.
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Innovative companies are scrambling to come up with technological fixes for the age-old problem of keeping people on their meds, but they face a tough sell with providers.
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With no resolution in sight as of Dec. 21, the nation's doctors continued to wait for a reprieve as Congress had yet to address a looming 26.5% Medicare physician payment cut scheduled to kick in Jan. 1.
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Hospitals won't see much change to their Medicare payments as a result of bonuses and penalties tied to quality and patient satisfaction that will be awarded for the first time in the new year. Medicare will marginally raise pay for 1,588 hospitals and dock pay for 1,426 others under its new...
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The uncertain fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act defines the first half of the year in healthcare as the law rests in the hands of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.
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The Republican primary season begins in earnest with a gradually narrowing field of candidates targeting Obamacare (a term the president would embrace by the end of the year) for some of their harshest attacks on the president and each other.
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Officials in many states defy or act warily on key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as they wait for the U.S. Supreme Court and then for voters to deliver a verdict on whether the law will survive.
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Big and surprising mergers and acquisitions roll out throughout the year, often crossing boundaries that traditionally divided providers and insurers. The historic realignment of the industry is fueled by the healthcare reform law.
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Aggressive efforts to squeeze expenses continue at hospitals and health systems in 2012. A strategy begun in response to the Great Recession, a weak economic recovery and the anticipation of new strains on operations from healthcare reform continues to force hospital executives to slash...
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In one of the few pieces of significant legislation to win bipartisan support in 2012, Congress reauthorizes the Food and Drug Administration's user-fee acts for the drug and medical device industries and establishes first-time user-fee programs for the biosimilars and generic drug sectors.
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The Obama administration continues to push forward with its bid to get hospitals and physician practices wired. It encourages them to adopt information technology that can meet the meaningful-use standard, which will qualify them for incentive payments and avoid future Medicare penalties. HHS...
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Devastating events in the second half of 2012 force public officials and providers to reflect on the causes and the healthcare system's ability to respond.
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Amid the ongoing drama over the survival and implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, state governors and lawmakers pursue initiatives that redraw the ground rules in healthcare. Most changes are intended to reduce the financial burden of healthcare and improve the quality...
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Each week, the cover of Modern Healthcare acts like a billboard to alert you, and, hopefully, excite you, about what you'll find inside. You'd be surprised how many iterations of each cover there are and how important we take their design and the messages they send. With all of that effort put into...
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Pina Violano, the injury prevention coordinator at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, has worked to take many dangerous guns off the streets, including an AK-47, an Uzi, a TEC-9 semiautomatic pistol and two Bushmaster-made assault rifles like the one used in the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.
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Allscripts' new CEO Paul Black faces a huge challenge. As hospitals and physician practices merge or coordinate care through seamless electronic health records, will he be able to knit Allscripts' disparate ambulatory and inpatient electronic health-records systems into a smooth, interoperable...
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If something happens three times, some folks call that a trend. If it happens again and again over 10 years, it's a tradition—and not all traditions are good.
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Hospitals and office-based physicians will have either cash or knives heading their way in 2013 as the government tries to either entice or coerce latecomers to adopt and effectively use EHR systems.
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Critics of the federal rule mandating insurance coverage for contraceptives are winning some battles in courts across the country, but Obama administration officials are crafting a new policy that would defuse the concerns driving the lawsuits.
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Some hospitals may have to tighten employment and oversight standards for medical technicians as lawmakers push stricter rules after a hepatitis C outbreak traced to a hospital worker.
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Pat Groner, a co-founder of the group purchasing organization Voluntary Hospitals of America and the original CEO of a company that would become four-hospital Baptist Health Care Corp., Pensacola, Fla., died Dec. 14 of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
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Innovative companies are scrambling to come up with technological fixes for the age-old problem of keeping people on their meds, but they face a tough sell with providers.
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Each week, the cover of Modern Healthcare acts like a billboard to alert you, and, hopefully, excite you, about what you'll find inside. You'd be surprised how many iterations of each cover there are and how important we take their design and the messages they send. With all of that effort put into...
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How sad that it took Newtown, Connecticut's horrific tragedy to finally focus the nation's attention on two pressing public health problems.
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“Danbury Hospital received two children and one adult. … When we announced that there would be no more transports and all of the patients who would be coming were already here, there was enormous sadness. Everyone recognized what that meant. We had been told at least 24 had been shot.
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"Recovery Mode” (Dec. 10, p. 6) did a nice job of highlighting the need for hospitals to have a disaster plan in place and to test that plan on a regular basis. We work with healthcare providers and other...
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A list of the 20 largest biotechnology companies based on worldwide revenue in 2012. Source: BioPharm Insight and Modern Healthcare reporting. Published Dec. 24, 2012, p. 34.
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As it does for many people, the December holiday season prompts Outliers to reflect on the past year, rehashing and analyzing what went well and what didn't. Perhaps unlike many people, Outliers' highlights of the past year included
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Forget your healthcare congress, annual national institute or conference and exhibition—Spit Camp is a healthcare gathering that Outliers can really get behind.
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“Earthquake Surgery” would be a good title for Outliers' next (and first) rock album, and—while performing surgeries during earth-shaking tremors is not advised—being able to complete post-quake surgery now appears to be possible.
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