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The center is a joint venture combining the obstetrical program at Abbott Northwestern and neonatal care of Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota—separate but adjacent facilities. The building, connected to the existing facilities (as well as to a medical office building) via...
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A blood pressure check may be one of the most tried and true routines of a visit to the doctor's office. But a group of Allina Health doctors in Edina, Minn., is challenging the reliability of the conventional test and is trying a new method they say could provide a more accurate diagnosis for...
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Some states are emulating Oregon, and others are following somewhat different paths to control Medicaid costs and improve quality of care for their low-income residents. Some are focusing first on payment and...
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Doctor visits were given away at this year's Minnesota State Fair as freely as backpacks and yardsticks. Not on a stick, mind you, but online. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota handed out about 4,000 vouchers for e-visits with doctors through a website called Online Care Anywhere.
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Healthcare services in Florida's prisons are undergoing a big overhaul this summer as the state hands over care for its more than 100,000 inmates to a private company.
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See a sampling of states' videos promoting their health insurance exchanges.
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The American Academy of Family Physicians reports that there are only six states at this point where primary-care physicians are receiving enhanced Medicaid managed-care payments under the healthcare reform law to bring them up to Medicare payment levels.
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The Medical Device Innovation Consortium in Minneapolis has named William Murray its president and CEO, effective Aug. 12.
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Mayo Clinic named Jeff Bolton to succeed Shirley Weis as the system's chief administrative officer this fall. Bolton, Mayo's CFO since 2002, will work with Weis for the next few months and then assume her role as VP, administration and chief administrative officer on Nov. 15.
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Sometimes, a doctor's orders are easier to take from someone who doesn't wear a stethoscope. A study conducted at six Twin Cities clinics found that patients with chronic conditions fared better when doctors and nurses were assisted by "care guides"— laypeople who lead patients through the...
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