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Patrick Lukulay faced a daunting task this month when he stepped off a plane in Accra, Ghana. Local clinics were reporting that oxytocin, a drug used to stop hemorrhaging after childbirth, was no longer working.
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As CEO pay continues to draw heightened scrutiny, compensation comparisons used by governing boards to justify the payouts are coming under fire from critics.
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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You might occasionally see superheroes washing windows or Star Wars characters roaming the halls at the new Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Fla.
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Vermont may have a reputation as a small, laid-back state best known for maple syrup and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, but the task facing Lindsey Tucker is almost as large as the state's Green Mountains. The deputy commissioner of the state's health insurance exchange, Vermont Health Connect, faces the...
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Some see the stars aligning for a once-in-a-lifetime shift in the way clinicians are paid. But the future physician payment system could end up looking a lot like the past.
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Abuse of prescription painkillers causes more fatalities than heroin and cocaine combined. Yet efforts to stop the Medicare fraud that puts drugs on the black market aren't working as they should.
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When Dr. Ruth Parker talks to providers about the need to focus on health literacy, she rarely encounters anyone who doesn't agree that it's an issue with serious implications for healthcare outcomes.
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Some of the nation's largest for-profit hospital chains are sitting on mounting cash piles, suggesting to analysts that a wave of dealmaking may be in the offing.
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In 1980, armed with an aptitude for science, Dawn Endris was 19 years old and had her career path already chosen. “I always wanted to get into nursing,” she recalls.
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