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Foundations offer $2 million challenge for innovative use of health data
By Joseph Conn | August 01, 2013
Four charitable foundations in healthcare and one in journalism will participate in a $2 million contest to spark innovative uses of healthcare data.
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Regional News/South
By Modern Healthcare | July 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
KINGSPORT, Tenn.—With the help of six employers in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, Wellmont Health System in Kingsport introduced a free community health initiative known as Wellmont LiveWell. Eastman Chemical Co., Food City, Alpha Natural Resources, Domtar Corp.,...
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Rural hospitals' EHR adoption rate up 257%
By Joseph Conn | July 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The digital divide is still there among rural providers but it appears to be closing, according to a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and new research it references.
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Project ECHO expands, spreads telehealth model
By Jessica Zigmond | June 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Building on its success from the past 10 years, Project ECHO has established a new national institute to replicate its model of using “telementoring” to improve the expertise of primary-care clinicians so they can better serve patients with chronic conditions in underserved areas.
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RWJF offers $120,000 for best hospital price comparison tools
By Joseph Conn | June 06, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A major foundation wants software developers to invent tools to help consumers and others better understand Medicare data comparing hospital prices.
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Reform provisions could increase number of self-employed, study says
By Jessica Zigmond | June 03, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Health insurance provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could significantly boost the number of self-employed individuals next year, according to findings released last week from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Partway across the quality chasm | Providers improve performance, but good measurement still lacking
By Maureen McKinney | June 01, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Much has changed in the years since the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, companion reports released in 1999 and 2001 that sounded the alarm about high rates of adverse events and the urgent need to adopt proven best practices in healthcare.
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GOP senators seek Sebelius ACA fundraising probe
By Jessica Zigmond | May 30, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Senate Republicans have intensified their calls for scrutiny of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' efforts to raise money from private donors to help implement the healthcare reform law.
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Caught in the whirlwind | D.C. scandals could impede ACA implementation
By Jonathan Block and Jessica Zigmond | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
A bad week for HHS turned progressively worse as a maelstrom of controversies swirling around the Obama administration now threatens to distract federal officials from effectively implementing the 2010 healthcare overhaul.
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Cost sustainability | If payment reform fails, tie spending per beneficiary to GDP
By Dr. Manoj Jain and Dr. Bill Frist | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
We have done it. We have decreased the increase in the cost of healthcare. Let us explain. For three decades (1980–2009), the cost of healthcare has been increasing each year at an average rate of 7.4%—double the rate of inflation. However, over the past three years, the increase in...
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