Group purchasing executives gathered in Washington last week to discuss supply chain issues ranging from the drug shortages and medical device gag clauses to the effect of bundled payments on supply chain costs and the “greening” of the supply chain. FULL STORY »
Modern Healthcare's Joseph Conn speaks with members of the American Health Information Management Association on why they attended the association's 83rd annual convention this week in Salt Lake City. FULL STORY »
Dr. Donald Berwick isn't popular among Senate Republicans, but the CMS administrator has one former Republican senator in his corner—Tennessee's Dr. Bill Frist. FULL STORY »
The 450 people who attended the Colorado Health Foundation's sold-out 30th annual state health symposium were an interesting mix to say the least, but you know what you're getting into when the opening night's “entertainment” is a debate on whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act should be repealed and it actually turns out to be a fun event. FULL STORY »
Representatives of four Washington associations discussed the fate of healthcare reform and what the current debt-ceiling negotiations might mean for healthcare at a luncheon hosted by the Nashville Health Care Council on July 20. Modern Healthcare's Vince Galloro highlights the comments of Steve Lieberman of the National Governors Association and Chip Kahn, president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals in this report from Franklin, Tenn. FULL STORY »
The 3,500 attendees of this year's big confab for health insurers—America's Health Insurance Plans Institute 2011—were met in San Francisco with mild Pacific Ocean breezes, sunny skies and a general spirit of reconciliation. FULL STORY »
If there is one place where Community Health Systems might have expected unalloyed support these days, it is among executives and employees from its investor-owned hospital peers in the Nashville-area. FULL STORY »
Please put summaThe National Rural Health Association's annual meeting in Austin, Texas, this week gave rural healthcare providers some reasons to be cheerful, despite some concerns about rural health's currently limited role in healthcare reform.ry here FULL STORY »
Like the organizations it represents, the American Medical Group Association keeps getting larger, and its recently concluded annual conference set another attendance record while speakers at the event's various educational programs stressed the need for face-to-face communication. FULL STORY »
Rain poured down on San Francisco during the entirety of the sixth National Pay for Performance Summit last week, and apparently washed away the headline topic. Instead of P4P, the hot topic at the conference, held at the Hyatt downtown, went by another acronym: ACOs. FULL STORY »
Are employers doing enough to improve their workers' well-being? That's the question attendees were asked at the annual Health and Productivity Forum of the National Business Coalition on Health and the Integrated Benefits Institute, held in at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco from Feb. 28 to March 2. And the answer was, largely, no. FULL STORY »
Modern Healthcare's Vince Galloro reports from the annual luncheon with Wall Street analysts hosted by the Nashville Health Care Council on Jan. 26 at the Nashville Convention Center. FULL STORY »
“Civility,” wrote the 18th-century English aristocrat and writer Mary Wortley Montagu, “costs nothing and buys everything.” It's a good message for anyone, especially for those who live and do business in Washington, where a little civility goes a long way. FULL STORY »
When it comes to anticipated pain, sometimes it's less stressful to rip off the bandage and get it over with. That's the thought that stuck in my brain after three days of listening to vendors and group purchasing executives at the annual HIGPA Expo mull over the fate of a post-reform healthcare supply chain. FULL STORY »
