The rise of electronic cigarettes has triggered a sharp debate over whether the devices can play a role in helping the nation's estimated 44 million adult smokers kick their habit.
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The never-ending and ill-informed debate in Washington over defunding Obamacare has almost entirely drowned out public understanding of the law's positive impact on the economy.
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Designating the Up & Comers among young healthcare leaders is no easy task. But if the past is prologue, the 12 men and women highlighted in this special issue of Modern Healthcare will clearly be people to watch in the years ahead.
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House Republicans passed a $986 billion measure to fund the government through mid-December, but they can expect to get it back soon from the Senate because of the GOP's ongoing fight to dismantle the 2010 healthcare reform law.
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The Food and Drug Administration delivered its final rule on a long-awaited regime to place unique identifiers on medical devices, a system that promises to improve patient safety and make hospital supply operations more efficient. But it will take another seven years to roll out the system.
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The CMS late Friday laid out the standards for the healthcare reform law's Basic Health Program, which gives states the option to establish a health benefits program for low-income individuals who otherwise would be eligible to buy coverage in the health...
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The rise of electronic cigarettes has triggered a sharp debate over whether the devices can play a role in helping the nation's estimated 44 million adult smokers kick their habit.
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The long slump in healthcare spending, whose growth slowed as the economy plunged into recession and never recovered, may be about to end.
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New numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau last week are a reminder of the challenge ahead as the Obama administration works to realize the healthcare reform law's vision of significantly reducing the ranks of Americans without health insurance.
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Now that the Obama administration has delivered its long-awaited rule making home-care aides eligible for overtime pay and the federal minimum wage, employers who send out the aides must weigh the impact of a more even playing field.
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Hospital systems, especially those that are purchasing physician practices and expanding outpatient clinics to pursue greater care coordination, face a pressing need to track patients no matter where they receive care. Interoperability between EHRs has...
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Population health is more than a buzzword. The nation is experiencing an obesity epidemic, the continued ill effects of smoking and environmental pollution, and the social stresses of a lingering economic downturn. The nation's public health authorities...
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Safeguarding patients' personal health information has become a more complicated job—and potentially more punitive—thanks to a raft of new federal rules going into effect this week.
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Designating the Up & Comers among young healthcare leaders is no easy task. But if the past is prologue, the 12 men and women highlighted in this special issue of Modern Healthcare will clearly be people to watch in the years ahead.
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By Charles (Chuck) W.B. Wardell III
| Print Magazine
This year has brought with it much of the turmoil that has swirled around healthcare for the past decade. While the industry is the fastest growing in the U.S., senior managers at hospitals and other organizations continue to wrestle with unique, unanticipated operational and strategic...
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When Anuj Desai thinks about information technology interoperability, it's not in the common healthcare context of barriers to health data exchange, but rather, with a view to its infinite possibilities.
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Maybe Beth Feldpush's training in ballet is where she developed the poise that people say is one of her best traits as a healthcare leader.
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In the old days, injured veterans returning from combat in World War II thought nothing of staying three or four men to a hospital room when they arrived stateside to begin post-war life.
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As an anesthesia resident, Dr. Peter Fleischut approached leadership at New York-Presbyterian Hospital with a proposal: Why not create a formal forum for his fellow residents to join in patient-safety initiatives?
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Patty Kehoe, president of Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, says the first impressions she had of her Medicaid managed-care plan's chief medical officer, Dr. Irene Krokos, revolved around her creativity and the way...
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A native Upstate New Yorker, Sean Sondej came to Durham, N.C., in July 2003 to attend the administrative fellowship program at Duke University Health System and has never left.
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The way Airica Steed sees it, there was never any doubt she would pursue a career in healthcare.Every woman in her family was a nurse, including her mother—a pediatric nurse and the person she calls her first role model. “I wanted to follow in her footsteps,” says Steed, 35.
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When Sean Tinney first began college as a freshman at Auburn University, he thought about entering the healthcare field, but as a physician, not an administrator. Then somewhere between an anatomy course—“I thought maybe this is not for me”—and the realization that he...
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Henry Thompson faced a wide range of challenges when he first took over as CEO of the Community Health Center of Richmond, a federally qualified health center on New York's Staten Island.
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Determining where a healthcare provider should devote its resources to improve quality is no small feat. It's easy to get lost in the barrage of metrics that healthcare administrators need to sort through, but Grady Health System in Atlanta was fortunate to have the services of Chad VanDenBerg.
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When Beth Walker arrived at Ochsner Health System in 2001 to begin an administrative fellowship, the New Orleans-based organization was a one-hospital operation.
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HACKENSACK,N.J.—Seven systems that include 25 hospitals in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania are banding together in an alliance seeking the benefits of scale without the complications of merging assets. Providers clearly believe bigger is better in this era, and these systems are...
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BOISE, Idaho—In a case that will help define how antitrust regulators view hospital acquisitions of doctor practices for years to come, the Federal Trade Commission is scheduled to open a four-week civil trial in Idaho this week in an attempt to unwind the purchase of the state’s...
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MINNEAPOLIS—Fairview Health Services, looking to rebound from a billing controversy and a failed deal with Sanford Health, announced that system has hired Rulon Stacey to take the helm Nov. 4. Stacey, who recently said he would leave the University of Colorado Health, will succeed Mark...
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The never-ending and ill-informed debate in Washington over defunding Obamacare has almost entirely drowned out public understanding of the law's positive impact on the economy.
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Clinical trials are conducted under a growing constellation of state and federal regulations aimed at preventing conflicts of interest in the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and physicians.
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Regarding “Serious dental infections requiring hospitalization up 40% since 2000” (ModernHealthcare.com, Sept.3), payers do not reimburse primary-care or urgent-care physicians for diagnosing and treating...
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A list of the nation's EHR vendors with the most installations in ambulatory care offices, based on total number of installations for EPs from April 2011 to currently available. Source: Modern Healthcare reporting based on data from the CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health...
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Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin was named to the Endowed Chair in Public Health at Xavier University of Louisiana. Benjamin, 56, stepped down from the surgeon general post in July after serving since 2009 under President Barack Obama. She...
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Adventist Health President and CEO Robert Carmen will retire April 1, 2014, after 44 years with the Roseville, Calif.-based health system. Carmen, 67, has served as president and CEO since October 2007. The board expects to reach a decision on his successor by the end of the year. Before...
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An experiment that showed the felicitous effects of listening to Italian opera for mice after a heart transplant was among the winners at this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
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Outliers knows it's tough to see your favorite NFL team lose again and again. Turns out it's not just bad for your morale to be a fan of teams like the hapless Detroit Lions, it's bad for your waistline—and your neighbors' waistlines, too.
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