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Reform Update: Low-income patients prefer hospitals for primary care
By Andis Robeznieks | July 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Federal healthcare reform efforts have focused on keeping people out of the hospital and getting them into primary-care offices for preventive care and health management. But some low-income patients strongly prefer going to the hospital for primary care, and they give some good reasons for this.
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WakeMed, physicians group coordinate to improve care and avoid penalties
By News Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) | June 18, 2013
WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Key Physicians, one of North Carolina's biggest physicians practices, announced a partnership Monday designed to minimize federal penalties and maximize financial rewards under the national healthcare law.
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Healthcare job growth slows as hospitals see drop
By Ashok Selvam | June 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Growth in healthcare jobs slowed to levels not seen since January, primarily because hospitals shed 5,900 jobs for the month, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted figures released Friday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Video Feature: MGMA-ACMPE's Dr. Susan Turney (4:10)
By Modern Healthcare | May 18, 2013
Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief Jessica Zigmond talks with Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE.
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Video Feature: Target Corp.'s Dr. Kevin Ronneberg (4:12)
By Modern Healthcare | May 04, 2013
Modern Healthcare reporter Andis Robeznieks talks with Dr. Kevin Ronneberg, associate medical director of Target Corp., about the company's in-store clinics.
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Tight battles under way for inpatient EHR dominance
By Joseph Conn | March 27, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Four developers of electronic health-record system are in a tight battle to become the most popular developer of complete, inpatient EHR systems that hospitals use to achieve meaningful use and receive Medicare EHR incentive payments, an analysis of federal program data shows.
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Doc EHR market remains competitive
By Joseph Conn | March 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Epic Systems Corp. has more physicians and other eligible professionals who have attested as meaningful users of complete electronic health-record systems in the ambulatory-care setting than any other vendor in a still-crowded and intensely competitive field, an analysis of federal data shows.
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Texas docs push for health IT safety czar
By Joseph Conn | February 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Texas Medical Association is calling for appointment of a federal health information technology safety czar, while the American Medical Association wants to see more health IT safety research focused on systems in ambulatory care.
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Shedding beds | New hospital projects are taking ambulatory care to the extreme
By Andis Robeznieks | January 26, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Calif. not-for-profit taking stake in Tenet facility
By Beth Kutscher | January 24, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
John Muir Health, Walnut Creek, Calif., has formed a joint venture with Tenet Healthcare Corp. that will give the not-for-profit system a 49% stake in Tenet's San Ramon Regional Medical Center.
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