Performance improvement in healthcare often takes changing processes, launching new initiatives and installing cutting-edge technologies. But achieving long-lasting gains also requires changing the culture.
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Hospital chains, health insurers and retail pharmacy groups are likely to wind up big winners in any shakeup of the corporate tax code, while pharmaceutical companies and medical-device makers may find themselves fighting tooth and nail to keep the status quo.
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From a healthcare perspective, the release of President Barack Obama's budget last week was extremely disturbing—and not because of the new cuts it would impose on healthcare providers.
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Air filters marked with dark-amber stains, unexplained variations in drug purity, patients' complaints dismissed without investigation: all were among the deficiencies cited at 31 drug-compounding factories inspected in the past seven weeks by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Hospital chains, health insurers and retail pharmacy groups are likely to wind up big winners in any shakeup of the corporate tax code, while pharmaceutical companies and medical-device makers may find themselves fighting tooth and nail to keep the status quo.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in the Myriad Genetics gene patenting case, whose outcome could have major financial consequences for healthcare providers and patients and help determine the future affordability of gene-based medical technologies and personalized medicine.
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Gene-sequencing technologies may help providers identify and characterize bacterial pathogens during an outbreak, such as the E. coli outbreak in Germany that sickened thousands of people in 2011.
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President Barack Obama's proposal to shave $400 billion from federal healthcare spending over the next decade appears to be the starting point for this year's broader deficit-reduction debate.
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Help for consumers who want to purchase health insurance plans through the new exchanges will be coming to Georgia this year in the form of paid “navigators” earning from $20 to $38 an hour.
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Senate Democrats never called a hearing to confirm Dr. Donald Berwick as CMS administrator because they feared it would give Republicans a venue for toxic attacks on the healthcare reform law.
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The cacophony of beeps coming from patient monitors, infusion pumps and other alarm-equipped devices can desensitize clinicians and lead to serious adverse events—even deaths.
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An ambitious plan to revamp Maryland's unusual system of setting hospital prices would create and enforce a cap on hospital spending growth. In so doing, the state may push providers to address the other driver of rising healthcare costs: how often and where medical care is delivered.
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In Florida, one wellness program that offered smokers a financial incentive to get help to quit drew only two participants in five years. And in Pennsylvania, patients in a cash lottery were eligible for prizes when they took medication as scheduled. Patients reported a sharp drop—to a mean...
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The healthcare reform law conjures an appealing vision for hospitals: No longer will they have to manage the burden of uninsured Americans with a mix of federal and state subsidies, cost-shifting and contorted accounting.
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Revenue-cycle management companies face new headaches as they assume more responsibility for the privacy and data security of the protected health information they handle.
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Abuse of prescription painkillers causes more fatalities than heroin and cocaine combined. Yet efforts to stop the Medicare fraud that puts drugs on the black market aren't working as they should.
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Performance improvement in healthcare often takes changing processes, launching new initiatives and installing cutting-edge technologies. But achieving long-lasting gains also requires changing the culture.
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For more than a decade, Scripps Health of San Diego has worked to create internal structures that improve quality—a major cultural shift for the institution.
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At Alegent Creighton Health in Omaha, Neb., high-quality outcomes and the patient experience are among the highest priorities.“But we don't do it to get awards,” says Richard Hachten, Alegent's president and CEO.
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Mercy Health Southwest Ohio Region in Cincinnati has succeeded in raising quality by setting at least 10 specific performance goals every year for all of the system's 11 hospitals and medical centers.“We measure everything,” says Jim May, president and CEO of Mercy Health.
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Just months before the creation of a $4 billion health system, the two Roman Catholic hospital operators behind the deal have abandoned talks for now, citing disagreements over back-office functions.
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LAS VEGAS—A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak. Two companies—both subsidiaries of UnitedHealth...
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Nearly a year after a Kentucky hospital sued the state over its expanded Medicaid managed-care program, Gov. Steve Beshear has unveiled an “aggressive plan” to resolve payment disputes between payers and providers.
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MINNEAPOLIS—Sanford Health, a South Dakota health system on an acquisition streak, called off merger talks with Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services after the deal met resistance from Minnesota officials. Sanford CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft said in a statement that the health system...
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NEW YORK—Amid upheaval in Brooklyn's hospital industry, a study released last week captures the health needs of residents in some of the borough's poorer neighborhoods who suffer from high rates of chronic illness. Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Brownsville and Crown Heights residents...
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From a healthcare perspective, the release of President Barack Obama's budget last week was extremely disturbing—and not because of the new cuts it would impose on healthcare providers.
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Every hospital and healthcare facility has some variation of this sign: “It's the law. Be careful not to discuss patients in public.” Like World War II posters warning that “Loose lips sink ships,” these notices stress that information falling into the wrong hands can lead...
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A list of the nation's 10 largest publicly traded, for-profit hospital chains, ranked by 2012 revenue as reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Source: Modern Healthcare reporting. Published April 11, 2013, p. 34.
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Seton Healthcare Family, an Austin, Texas-based division of Ascension Health, named Jesus Garza CEO, effective July 1. Garza, 60, will also start providing oversight of Ascension's Arizona ministry, Carondelet Health Network, and continue serving as the ministry market leader for Ascension...
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CaroMont Health has decided it doesn't want to “Cheat death” anymore. Seems the hospital organization in Gastonia, N.C., wasn't anticipating the negative reaction that greeted its new tagline this month.
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In case you're wondering what the world of college sports looks like from the perspective of a Quaker mascot, Dr. Robert Wachter is happy to share. Seems the physician, author and teacher was prompted to reminisce about his sports mascot past in the wake of the recent NCAA basketball tourney.
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