It didn't take long for the IRS scandal to metastasize. Last week, the mid-level bureaucrat at the center of the mushrooming affair invoked her constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination.
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When Dr. Rich Zane arrived last year at the University of Colorado Hospital, he found an emergency room built to handle 25,000 patients a year but was seeing 60,000.
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About four years ago, Nick Macchione had an idea to expand the ACO concept in a way that would involve a much broader range of stakeholders working together to improve the health of an entire region.
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As lawmakers wrestle over federal immigration reform, some are stuck on how to address healthcare coverage for some 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S.
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Reality is squeezing down what had been a massive pilot project targeting the disproportionately expensive care for Americans enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid.
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When Dr. Rich Zane arrived last year at the University of Colorado Hospital, he found an emergency room built to handle 25,000 patients a year but was seeing 60,000.
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When Dr. Michael Edmond learned that the Food and Drug Administration had tightened its regulations governing fecal transplants, he promptly canceled 10 scheduled appointments for the procedure.
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A bold plan to merge two large Michigan health systems collapsed last week. It was just the latest one to fizzle among big hospital operators looking to get bigger in transactions that might have been far-fetched just a few years ago.
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Though hospitals tend not to encourage the practice, last week's monster tornado in central Oklahoma proved once again that medical centers become irresistible gathering places for fearful and dispossessed residents during large-scale natural...
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When thousands of Gulf Coast residents fled Hurricane Katrina, many of their paper-based medical records were soaked or blown to the winds. Ever since, proponents of electronic health-record systems and health...
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When the Silicon Valley startup Intuitive Surgical went public 13 years ago, the company was posting $10 million in annual sales, and its little-known surgical robot had been used on just 600 patients worldwide.
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Going into the New Year, there was nothing but optimism that healthcare companies would continue the buying spree that colored 2012. But mergers and acquisitions in 2013 opened with a whimper.
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Playwright Susan Nussbaum, 59, has written an eye-opening first novel that is already generating controversy among the providers who care for the thousands of American children with intellectual, physical and emotional disabilities. Good Kings Bad Kings, released from Algonquin Press this...
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A growing number of hospitals are deploying robots that automate simple operational tasks or provide new ways for physicians to interact with patients beyond the bedside.
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Midway through their pregnancies, expectant mothers who plan to deliver at Winter Park (Fla.) Memorial Hospital will meet with a “birth designer” to choreograph their ideal birth experience.
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When finished, the $1.2 billion University Medical Center will be an integral part of the BioDistrict New Orleans, which seeks to be a bioscience hub built around research conducted at Louisiana State, Tulane and Xavier universities. But with its extensive use of computerized building information...
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About four years ago, Nick Macchione had an idea to expand the ACO concept in a way that would involve a much broader range of stakeholders working together to improve the health of an entire region.
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It didn't take long for the IRS scandal to metastasize. Last week, the mid-level bureaucrat at the center of the mushrooming affair invoked her constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination.
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Deepening engagement among patients, families, physicians and providers will produce higher-quality health results and lead the way to answering the question: “What is best for the patient?”Our healthcare world is rapidly evolving. Among those changes is a cultural one that affects...
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Since the early 1980s, federal dietary guidelines have urged Americans to eat more nutrient-rich foods and cut back on fatty foods and highly processed “empty calorie” snacks such as cookies and chips. But those pleas have fallen on deaf ears. It's time to start thinking differently...
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Just read the article “Study finds jump in ER-related admissions.” Actually, this could be a good sign, that the ER is being used more appropriately for things that need admission. This might mean...
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A list of the nation's 25 largest children's hospitals, ranked by number of staffed beds. Sources: 2013 AHA Guide; Modern Healthcare. Published May 27, 2013, p. 34.
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The American Psychiatric Association named Dr. Saul Levin to replace retiring CEO and medical director Dr. James Scully. Since July 2012, Levin has served as interim director of the District of Columbia Department of Health. He has been active with the APA since 1987, and he has...
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Deep breath, vocal chords chemically tightened. Here come the puns. Rising helium prices have more than balloon enthusiasts feeling deflated.
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While Trekkies may be lining up now to watch the latest adventures of the starship Enterprise's crew in the No. 1 flick “Star Trek Into Darkness,” the original Capt. Kirk still has a few things to say about space.
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The American Medical Association continues to oppose the Oct. 1, 2014 conversion to ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes. A story in the May 20 issue (“Riding the wave,” p. 6) incorrectly...
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