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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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Healthcare providers and insurers are moving onto the front lines of the nation's war on obesity as policymakers' efforts flounder.
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As a former investment banker, Henry Purchase was no stranger to paperwork. But even that did not prepare him for the forms and regulations he faced when moving his mother into a nursing home.
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When Michigan's state government—responding to the steady hemorrhage of manufacturing jobs in the 2000s—launched its No Worker Left Behind program, it wanted to channel displaced workers into the knowledge economy.
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Radiologists are pushing back against critics of medical imaging overuse with a broad effort that seeks to defend the role of radiology and imaging within new payment and care-delivery models.
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Cardiologist Dr. Blair Erb has a new strategy when patients with known coronary artery disease come to his office for annual stress tests, which he believes are almost always unnecessary.
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In 2010, Memorial Medical Center, a small hospital in rural San Augustine, Texas, saw its financial losses grow along with demand from patients who could not afford to pay. The hospital's subsidies for free medical care to low-income patients swallowed 4.5% of its budget by the end of the year.
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President Barack Obama rarely makes much mention of healthcare in his annual keynote speeches, but this week he could use the forum to help launch a historic enrollment effort.
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Modern Healthcare reporters reached out by phone and e-mail to leaders from across the industry to find out what they hoped to hear from President Barack Obama on Tuesday. Here's what they said: Dr. James Weinstein, president and CEO of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system
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It appears that the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. will not get federally subsidized access to health coverage under planned legislation that would allow many to stay legally.
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