The Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego has launched a six-month “Wired for Health” study to evaluate the effectiveness of using mobile health devices to reduce healthcare costs. FULL STORY »
PokitDok, which allows providers to establish a digital storefront where consumers can research, shop and pay for healthcare, has added two executives—Jason Thibeault and Ryan Tarzy—to its team. FULL STORY »
By Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press | August 07, 2013
Management of two LSU hospitals in north Louisiana is being turned over to a nonprofit research foundation that has never run a patient care facility, raising concerns about whether it has the experience and the financing needed to oversee the public hospitals. FULL STORY »
By Jay Greene, Crain's Detroit Business | August 05, 2013
David Share, M.D., senior vice president of value partnerships with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, has been shepherding the Blues' patient-centered medical home project during the five years of its existence. FULL STORY »
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 05, 2013
| Basic Web
Ruth Rothstein, the former chief of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services who was credited for turning around what was once an outdated public health system in Chicago into one of the country's leading models and was considered a major figure among public hospital leaders, has died at the age... FULL STORY »
By Donald Susswein | August 03, 2013
| Print Magazine
Four key reforms to expand insurance coverage were intended to fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle; in reality, they fit like pieces from four different jigsaw puzzles. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | August 03, 2013
| Print Magazine
“I bet you more people could tell you the name of the new prince of England than could tell you that the health market opens Oct. 1.”—HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius FULL STORY »
The findings of a new study published this week in BMJ Quality & Safety show the first evidence that electronic health records can play a role in reducing hospital readmissions of high-risk heart failure patients. FULL STORY »
Accenture Federal Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, the global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, has announced that it will acquire ASM Research. FULL STORY »
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