As healthcare reform unfolds, midlevel health professionals such as nurses and physician assistants are advocating for more autonomy so they can play a bigger role in the delivery of primary care.
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Healthcare innovation doesn't happen overnight, or even within three years. Read about the Top 5 innovations happening in healthcare delivery right now.
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The Obama administration can justifiably look back with pride at year three of its signature healthcare reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Policymakers and healthcare economists have observed and been troubled by significant variations in what Medicare pays for healthcare in different parts of the country.
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The Food and Drug Administration plans to require the manufacturers of automated external defibrillators to submit pre-market approval applications for those devices as part of a broader effort to reclassify how some high-risk devices are regulated.
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Healthcare innovation doesn't happen overnight, or even within three years. Read about the Top 5 innovations happening in healthcare delivery right now.
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Some hospitals are beginning to develop formulary-like lists of smartphone and tablet applications acceptable for use in clinical settings as more patients and physicians incorporate medical apps into their care regimens.
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In what could turn out to be one of the largest ever population health investigations, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco plan to enroll 1 million people with smartphones in a worldwide cardiovascular study aimed at improving heart health.
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One of the nation's largest not-for-profit hospital operators is building its own insurance arm to sell health plans directly to employers.
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Despite a history of generally limited cooperation, hospitals and public health departments are responding to new incentives to work together on improving health at the population level.
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Dr. Paul Ort, an orthopedic surgeon, suffered a skiing mishap about four years ago that left him with a minor injury that was treated with physical therapy. Then, about two years ago, he suffered what he described as “additional trauma,” and had an MRI done that showed the meniscal...
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Specialists and medical societies are cheering the launch of a medical-home-type recognition program for specialty practices, an option they say will extend the emphasis on care coordination outside of primary care and ease communication among providers.
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In signing a 10-year deal with drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen Corp. and mulling the possibility of taking up to a 23% equity stake in the company, Walgreen Co. is inching closer to becoming a vertically integrated drug dispenser, a spokesman confirmed.
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In little more than 18 months, the U.S. healthcare industry is expected to join most of the industrialized world in the adoption of the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision code system, which promises to be the biggest single-day switch in healthcare information technology since...
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Modern Healthcare's second annual survey of healthcare law firms is now open for participation. This survey is intended for U.S. law firms that have dedicated practice areas and staff to meet the needs of the healthcare industry and...
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Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass., has been on Truven Health Analytics' 100 Top Hospitals list six times. A chart in the Feb. 25 issue (p. 27) incorrectly stated a...
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In 1980, armed with an aptitude for science, Dawn Endris was 19 years old and had her career path already chosen. “I always wanted to get into nursing,” she recalls.
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As healthcare reform unfolds, midlevel health professionals such as nurses and physician assistants are advocating for more autonomy so they can play a bigger role in the delivery of primary care.
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Pittsburgh's mayor said UPMC should pay property and payroll taxes because the hospital operator fails to meet state criteria for tax exemption, citing legal counsel that found the UPMC system likely spends too little on free care for low-income patients and too much on executive compensation to...
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NEW YORK—Cigarettes would have to be kept out of sight in New York City stores under a first-in-the-nation plan unveiled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week, igniting complaints from retailers and smokers who said they've had enough with the city's crackdowns. Shops from corner stores...
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Two months after vetoing the bills because of abortion restrictions, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed two bills to allow Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan to convert into a not-for-profit mutual health insurance company, pay an estimated $100 million in annual state and local taxes and,...
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ST. LOUIS—A 2012 Missouri law that allows employers and insurers to deny contraceptive coverage is pre-empted by the healthcare reform law and accompanying regulations, a U.S. District Court judge ruled. Under the Missouri law, insurers and employers or other healthcare plan sponsors...
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BATON ROUGE, La.—Plans to privatize most of Louisiana State University's public hospitals means borrowing for repairs and construction of the health facilities will be taxable. That borrowing will cost the state more. The Louisiana State Bond Commission learned that bonds issued for...
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The Obama administration can justifiably look back with pride at year three of its signature healthcare reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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“After three years in which the Democratic majority in the Senate failed to produce a budget, it was refreshing to have them offer up any budget at all.
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Editor's note: Following is an edited excerpt of the transcript for Modern Healthcare's March 20 editorial webinar, “Patient Satisfaction: Boosting Scores and Improving Quality.” The panelists were Dr. Frank Byrne, president of St. Mary's Hospital, Madison, Wis.; Dr. Seth Glickman,...
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I was encouraged to see you call out “exchange of information” as a key takeaway from this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference (“Opening...
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A list of the nation's 15 largest nurse staffing organizations, ranked by estimated 2011 U.S. temporary staffing revenue. The organizations shown are locum tenens staffing firms as well as both per diem and travel nurse staffing firms. Source: Staffing Industry Analysts. Published March 25, 2013,...
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Bon Secours Health System appointed Carlos Beato CEO for Bon Secours New York Health System in Riverdale, effective April 15. Beato, 59, will replace Eileen Malo, interim CEO since March 2011. Beato joins Bon Secours from United Methodist Homes of New Jersey, where he served as...
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Outliers is getting a kick out of new research that shows babies display “Mean Girls” tendencies from an early age—that cliquish behavior that causes people to bond over, say, a mutual love of pink outfits and ostracize others who prefer math.
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During Outliers' tenure as a community newspaper reporter, we participated in the journalistic ritual of interviewing women on the occasion of their 100th birthday. One thing those ladies all seemed to have in common was daily consumption of green tea.
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Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass., has been on Truven Health Analytics' 100 Top Hospitals list six times. A chart in the Feb. 25 issue (p. 27) incorrectly stated a...
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