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Both providers and payers have been saying for years that personalized medicine will radically alter the way that cancer patients receive care.
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For the colleges and universities that train the next generation of healthcare leaders, health reform's wave of new regulation and market activity has prompted new faculty hires and new curricula.
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Worries about low state Medicaid rates are growing as at least 25 states appear poised to undertake a historic broadening of their Medicaid programs' eligibility, according to health policy experts.
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The popular notion in healthcare is that the most aggressive fraud hunters—known as “zone program integrity contractors,” or ZPICs—focus on small players. That idea is wrong.
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Though it might seem counterintuitive, healthcare design experts are saying standardization is the key to flexibility—and the ability to be flexible can mean the difference between going ahead with a construction project or going through another round of costly planning and trying to predict...
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Late last year, one of the nation's largest not-for-profit hospital systems plunged deeper into the managed-care market with a move to purchase a majority stake in insurer Soundpath Health.
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Author, designer and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller said change doesn't come from fighting the existing reality, but by building a new model that makes the existing one obsolete.
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Ambulatory care is getting more sophisticated, and advanced healthcare services that once required hospitalization can now be delivered on an outpatient basis.
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"It's a rotten system,” declares Dr. Lawrence Weed, who at age 89 is the dean of healthcare information technology iconoclasts.
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The title of Dr. Scot Silverstein's teaching website at Drexel University, “Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics: Good Health IT, Bad Health IT, and Common Examples of Healthcare IT Difficulties,” summarizes the veteran physician informaticist's general outlook on the current...
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