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Unfortunately, some opponents of healthcare reform are behaving outrageously. They are actively trying to make the law fail.
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What it does: EndoChoice provides devices, diagnostics, imaging and infection-control services for specialists treating gastrointestinal conditions.
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Determining where a healthcare provider should devote its resources to improve quality is no small feat. It's easy to get lost in the barrage of metrics that healthcare administrators need to sort through, but Grady Health System in Atlanta was fortunate to have the services of Chad VanDenBerg.
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The Hospital Authority of Habersham County, Georgia, voted Sept. 17, during its regular monthly meeting, to return $1.5 million that Habersham Medical Center, Demorest, had received for demonstrating "meaningful use of certified electronic health record technology."
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If you're a baby boomer healthcare worker in Augusta, Ga., Outliers suspects you don't like your co-workers much. At least that's the word in a new report from Payscale.com, which looked at more than 28,000 responses from the website's users.
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The CMS on Tuesday heralded a lower prevalence of antipsychotic drug use in the nation's nursing homes, which the agency attributes to a dementia-care program it launched last year.
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The Federal Trade Commission may have won a battle, but it lost the war over Phoebe Putney Health System's expansion in southwestern Georgia.
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The Federal Trade Commission will allow Phoebe Putney Health System in Georgia to keep the hospital it acquired in 2011 in a deal the government fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won.
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Researchers at Emory University have received a federal grant of nearly $12 million to study the HIV epidemic among women.
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The Federal Trade Commission and Phoebe Putney Health System are in settlement talks to resolve a bitterly disputed court battle over a $200 million hospital acquisition in southwest Georgia.
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