Healthcare services in Florida's prisons are undergoing a big overhaul this summer as the state hands over care for its more than 100,000 inmates to a private company.
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This Labor Day, let us reflect on the trials of the millions of our fellow Americans who struggle to make ends meet in part-time and near-minimum wage jobs that do not provide health insurance.
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Hospital systems are taking the cost-reduction lessons they learned with medical devices such as joint implants and are applying them to more obscure and less costly categories of hospital spending.
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Healthcare services in Florida's prisons are undergoing a big overhaul this summer as the state hands over care for its more than 100,000 inmates to a private company.
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Premier's planned IPO and reorganization is designed to boost its capacity to compete in the emerging data analytics and consulting market at a time when some systems are turning away from GPOs.
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Tina Grant said she thought lobbying for expanding Medicaid in Republican-led Michigan would be like running a marathon. Instead, it turned out to be more like a triathlon.
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The 17 states running their own health insurance exchanges are taking widely different approaches to advertising the new online marketplaces to the public.
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Humana hopes that a group of animated characters named Sophie, Karen, Tom, Joe and Sally will help educate consumers who have never bought health insurance about the basics of health plans and insurance exchanges.
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For the past six years, a University of Washington program has trained indigenous tribal members across Alaska as dental hygienists to combat the epidemic of tooth decay suffered by native Alaskans and others living in Alaska's rural areas.
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Labor unions are fighting to make sure their interests and input are considered as hospital executives adjust to a new business landscape under the healthcare reform law, along with new and threatened Medicare cuts devised to trim the federal deficit. As...
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The Aug. 26 By the Numbers list of major hospitalist service contractors (p. 42) incorrectly reported data for Cogent HMG. The firm contracts with 103...
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To increase consumer use of cost and quality comparison tools, payers increasingly are turning to physicians and other providers, who long have resisted public release of comparative data.
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Hospital systems are taking the cost-reduction lessons they learned with medical devices such as joint implants and are applying them to more obscure and less costly categories of hospital spending.
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This Labor Day, let us reflect on the trials of the millions of our fellow Americans who struggle to make ends meet in part-time and near-minimum wage jobs that do not provide health insurance.
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Financial relationships between the healthcare industry and the clinical community are a prevalent aspect of the healthcare landscape. A common financial interaction, for example, is when a physician receives a fee for consulting with a pharmaceutical...
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Regarding “Patients care what their electronic healthcare data are used for, survey shows”, to quote something a friend said when sharing this, “Hello, Captain Obvious.” Of course we care how and...
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A list of the nation's 83 largest healthcare management consulting firms, ranked by 2012 revenue from provider consulting fees. Source: Modern Healthcare's eighth annual Management Consultant Firms Survey. Published Sept. 2, 2013, p. 32.
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Kaiser Permanente's George Halvorson handed off his CEO title to Bernard Tyson on July 1 and at the end of the year will relinquish his position as chairman, too.
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The Medical Device Innovation Consortium in Minneapolis named William Murray president and CEO, effective Aug. 12. MDIC is a public-private partnership between the Food and Drug Administration and the medical device industry. Murray, 52, most recently served as CEO of Envoy Medical, which...
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If you're a baby boomer healthcare worker in Augusta, Ga., Outliers suspects you don't like your co-workers much. At least that's the word in a new report from Payscale.com, which looked at more than 28,000 responses from the website's users.
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If someone asks Federation of American Hospitals President and CEO Chip Kahn what happened during his summer vacation, he can say he had a fowl time.
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The hunt for the Griffin, a ship built and once commanded by legendary French explorer La Salle, has taken an unlikely detour from northern Lake Michigan to a small-town hospital, where modern technology may help determine whether a wooden slab is wreckage from the 17th century vessel.
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The Aug. 26 By the Numbers list of major hospitalist service contractors (p. 42) incorrectly reported data for Cogent HMG. The firm contracts with 103...
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