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For the past several years, the agency that oversees the nation's residency programs—the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education—has been mired in discussions dealing with resident work hours. The ACGME's Next Accreditation System, its new structure for evaluating physician...
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The media-fueled saga of 10-year-old cystic fibrosis patient Sarah Murnaghan ended happily last week for her and her family. But the successful legal and publicity campaign that allowed her to leap to the front of the waiting list for a life-saving lung transplant highlights an underlying dilemma.
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It's long been known that healthcare does not fit the economist's standard model for perfect competition. But Douglas Hough, a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, goes further: He says patients, providers and other stakeholders are irrational. His book, Irrationality in...
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Each summer, teaching hospitals undergo a transformation as a team of experienced residents leave and are replaced by trainees fresh out of medical school. Some view this as a time of peril for patients—commonly referred to as “the July...
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Patients visited outpatient clinics for flu-like illnesses at one of the highest recorded rates during the peak of last season, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Federal health officials have given final approval to a plan to overhaul Florida's safety net health insurance program. Gov. Rick Scott announced the decision on Friday, saying it would allow the state's Medicaid program to "to provide Medicaid users with quality, value-based and patient-centered...
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A new payment system intended to cut healthcare costs and improve patient care has been put in place following an agreement between physician members of the Greater Rochester (N.Y.) Independent Practice Association, Rochester General Health System, and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.
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On June 11, Modern Healthcare hosted its first Virtual Conference of 2013, Patient Safety & Quality. One component of the conference was a plenary session titled “Implementing a Culture of Continuous Improvement,” hosted by Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney. The session...
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A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation drew public debate over how organs are allocated was getting a lung transplant Wednesday, her family said.
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A blockbuster drug made by Amgen is no more effective than a cocktail of cheaper generic therapies in treating a severe joint disease affecting an estimated 1.3 million Americans, a new study says.
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