Ambulatory Care news and information

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 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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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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Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief Jessica Zigmond talks with Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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