By Joe Carlson | October 12, 2013
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Executives at Seattle Children's Hospital said they were stunned to learn they had been excluded from two health plans on Washington's new insurance exchange—but the same scenario may be playing out behind closed doors in higher-cost hospitals across the country. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | September 28, 2013
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Outliers has always thought of the profusion of acronyms in healthcare as just annoying. But now, one has sparked a legal battle, as University HealthSystem Consortium is suing UnitedHealth Group over the use of “UHC.” FULL STORY »
A large hospital consortium and two health systems have launched a "big data" pilot project to automatically extract claims and clinical data from their information technology systems. FULL STORY »
By Andrew L. Wang, Crain's Chicago Business | July 22, 2013
Some of the Chicago area's best-known teaching hospitals turn out the fewest primary-care doctors in the nation, despite a growing shortage of general practitioners that leaves many people without basic treatment. FULL STORY »
Major teaching hospitals have the lowest mortality rate of all hospital categories, according to a new study conducted by Truven Health Analytics. But they also have significantly higher incidence of adverse patient-safety events and complications. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks | April 27, 2013
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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. FULL STORY »
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