An environment where hospitals are under pressure to purchase medical and surgical supplies that promise the best clinical outcomes at the lowest price is here to stay, according to comments made by group purchasing executives at an industry conference this week.
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Three very different healthcare conferences are going on this week in Chicago, but speakers at each one had a similar message: Throughout history and even today, the healthcare industry has been slow to adopt innovations that it would eventually benefit from.
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It shouldn't be a surprise that attendees at this year's Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management conference had quite a bit to say about reducing supply costs.
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Because no one else has told you, I'm compelled to let you know that the Veterans Affairs Department, recognized as a leader and pioneer in health information technology, will spend around $77 million on Microsoft equipment and services in its coming fiscal year.
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Modern Healthcare quality and safety reporter Maureen McKinney talks to attendees at the National Patient Safety Foundation's annual meeting about their organizations' most pressing concerns and what they've taken away from the event.
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Modern Healthcare finance reporter and New York bureau chief Melanie Evans catches up with chief financial officers from three prominent not-for-profit hospital systems who presented at the closed-door Non-Profit Health Care Investor Conference in New York. They offered their revenue and expense forecasts for hospitals and systems and the strategies for dealing with both, now and in the future. Read more about the conference
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In Las Vegas last week, surrounded by thousands of healthcare compliance professionals in Caesars Palace, I couldn't help but call to mind that famous bass line from the 1981 song “Under Pressure” (The original version by Queen and David Bowie, that is, not the sample.)
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Modern Healthcare News Editor Gregg Blesch talks with reporter Joe Carlson about his experience covering six hours of arguments over three days in a landmark case that will determine the future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Carlson was among about 100 reporters with a view of the historic proceedings.
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After three years of reporting on healthcare reform—years of Congressional hearings followed by endless litigation, of speculation followed by obfuscation, of dreams of traveling to the Supreme Court followed by the hard reality of a wooden chair below my rear—the morning of oral arguments had arrived.
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Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda talks with attendees on the exhibit-hall floor of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2012 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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