When Michigan's state government—responding to the steady hemorrhage of manufacturing jobs in the 2000s—launched its No Worker Left Behind program, it wanted to channel displaced workers into the knowledge economy.
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Amid healthcare's rapidly changing technological landscape, one thing remains unchanged: the structure of how the nation pays for its senior citizen healthcare program.
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By early 2004, Eric Drew was supposed to die. His doctors thought he would. So did Richard Gibson, who was an employee at the Seattle cancer treatment center where Drew had been a leukemia patient since the prior September.
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The maker of the popular da Vinci robotic surgery system is playing defense as federal regulators, noting an increase in adverse events associated with the technology, queried surgeons who use it.
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The Food and Drug Administration conducted surprise inspections of four national compounding pharmacies that uncovered safety and quality issues at each facility just months after contaminated compounded drugs led to a meningitis outbreak that resulted in 48 deaths. The inspected facilities were:...
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Aggressive lobbying efforts from the nation's physicians, hospitals, healthcare associations and other industry groups proved futile in persuading Congress to replace automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set in motion by the Budget Control Act of 2011. President Barack Obama was expected to...
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When Michigan's state government—responding to the steady hemorrhage of manufacturing jobs in the 2000s—launched its No Worker Left Behind program, it wanted to channel displaced workers into the knowledge economy.
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Fewer early elective deliveries, lower 30-day readmission rates, greater levels of engagement by patients and families—those are among the victories being touted by the leaders of the Partnership for Patients, a sweeping, $1 billion patient-safety initiative led by the federal government.
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An effort in Maine to kill the state's certificate-of-need law has the support of Gov. Paul LePage and others who say the free market is a better regulator than the government when it comes to deciding how many healthcare facilities can be built.
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As public officials and providers fret over the safety and cost of drugs bought from compounding pharmacies, more hospital systems are working on plans to mix and package the drugs themselves.
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Turnover for top hospital executives edged up to 17% last year from the prior two years' rate of 16%, the latest snapshot from the American College of Healthcare Executives shows.
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The president of the American Medical Association is Dr. Jeremy Lazarus. His first name was misstated in the Feb. 18 issue (“New hope for SGR repeal”).
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By early 2004, Eric Drew was supposed to die. His doctors thought he would. So did Richard Gibson, who was an employee at the Seattle cancer treatment center where Drew had been a leukemia patient since the prior September.
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The American Medical Association has repeatedly called on the feds to delay for another year the scheduled Oct. 1, 2014 compliance deadline for ICD-10. Meanwhile, the AMA is evaluating a proposal to leapfrog from the ICD-9 codes now in use to ICD-11 codes, which are under development and may be...
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The national spending spree on health information technology could run full bore for a few more years, according to participants in this year's Modern...
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In Modern Healthcare's quest to track the health information technology zeitgeist, our annual Modern Healthcare/Modern Physician Survey of Executive Opinions...
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Investor-owned healthcare systems have been adding to their legal ranks and boosting self-policing in an attempt to get one step ahead of heightened regulatory activity around fraud and abuse.
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Amid healthcare's rapidly changing technological landscape, one thing remains unchanged: the structure of how the nation pays for its senior citizen healthcare program.
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“It is not a white flag of surrender,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said.This was technically true: He did not wave a banner ... when he announced … that he wants Florida to expand Medicaid, a key piece of Obamacare.
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As the 2013 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition opens in New Orleans on March 3, I think of HIMSS07, our last conference in the city, less than two years after Hurricane Katrina.
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There is a schism when examining community benefits at metropolitan hospitals and systems and comparing them to community hospitals (“The charity offering”). One needs to look at the broader picture.
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A list of the nation's healthcare spending by 16 industry sectors analyzed in aggregate and ranked by percentage change of expenditure for most recent calendar years. Source: CMS' Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group. Published March 4, 2013, p. 34.
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Roger Baker, who steered the Veteran Affairs Department's healthcare information technology development program toward an open-source model, is resigning. Since 2009, Baker has been an assistant secretary in the department with duties comparable to those of a chief information officer for...
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Dr. C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, died in New Hampshire at age 96. The cause wasn't disclosed.
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In the proliferation of social networking sites, there are forums for mothers, doctors, artists, gamers, teenagers, travelers, business executives and more.
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Outliers knows hundreds of hospitals have pledged to make their food healthier, but apparently there's a bit more low-fat sautéing to do on that front. A follow-up to a recent New York Times Magazine story on junk food found some doctors and others taking aim at unhealthy hospital food.
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The March of Dimes is leaving no stone unturned in its quest to curb rates of early elective deliveries. The White Plains, N.Y.-based not-for-profit has turned app developer with the release of CineMama, a free iPhone app marketed to expectant moms who are eager to document their ever-expanding...
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“We called it the Sunny von Bülow bill. These companies that should have been dead were being put on machines and kept alive for another few years. The biggest players drew this incredible huddle around the rule-makers and the rules are ridiculously favorable to these companies and...
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The president of the American Medical Association is Dr. Jeremy Lazarus. His first name was misstated in the Feb. 18 issue (“New hope for SGR repeal”).
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