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Scripps institute examines effectiveness of mobile devices in cutting costs
By Rachel Landen | August 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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CDC report finds slight decrease in rate of obesity among some children
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
There may be new hope in the fight against obesity among American youth.
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Online healthcare shopping tool PokitDok names new VPs
By Rachel Landen | August 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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Privatization deal set for LSU hospitals in north Louisiana
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.
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Study: Blue Cross avoided $155 million in costs in medical home project
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.
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Former Cook County public health official Rothstein dies at 90
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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the former chief of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services who was credited for turning around what was once an outdated public health system in Chicago into one of the country's leading models and was considered a major figure among public hospital leaders, has died at the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...
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Fix is needed for subsidies | Reducing the minimal amount of coverage may be best way to tweak ACA
By Donald Susswein | August 03, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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.
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Outliers: Quotable
By Modern Healthcare | August 03, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
“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
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Study shows EHRs' role in cutting readmissions of high-risk heart failure patients
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 01, 2013
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.
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Accenture Federal Services to acquire ASM Research
By Rachel Landen | July 31, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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