http://www.modernhealthcare.com Latest News from Modern Healthcare - Regular Feature en-us 144 21 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/?utm_source=tagid-rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagid-rss http://www.modernhealthcare.com/graphics/icons/rss.gif http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130517/MAGAZINE/305189957/bad-medicine http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130517/MAGAZINE/305189957/AR/0/Foreign-Drug-Inspections.jpg Fri, 17 May 2013 00:01:00 EST Patrick Lukulay faced a daunting task this month when he stepped off a plane in Accra, Ghana. Local clinics were reporting that oxytocin, a drug used to stop hemorrhaging after childbirth, was no longer working. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130517/MAGAZINE/305189957 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130511/MAGAZINE/305119956/peer-pressures http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130511/MAGAZINE/305119956/AR/0/CEO-pay.jpg Sat, 11 May 2013 00:01:00 EST As CEO pay continues to draw heightened scrutiny, compensation comparisons used by governing boards to justify the payouts are coming under fire from critics. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130511/MAGAZINE/305119956 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130504/MAGAZINE/305049957/no-small-achievement http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130504/MAGAZINE/305049957/AR/0/Bunkie-General-Hospital.jpg Sat, 4 May 2013 00:01:00 EST Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT... http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130504/MAGAZINE/305049957 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130427/MAGAZINE/301049874/child-friendly-not-childish http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130427/MAGAZINE/301049874/AR/0/Nemours-Children’s.jpg Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EST You might occasionally see superheroes washing windows or Star Wars characters roaming the halls at the new Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Fla. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130427/MAGAZINE/301049874 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130427/MAGAZINE/301049828/under-construction http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130427/MAGAZINE/301049828/AR/0/State-insurance-exchanges.jpg Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EST Vermont may have a reputation as a small, laid-back state best known for maple syrup and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, but the task facing Lindsey Tucker is almost as large as the state's Green Mountains. The deputy commissioner of the state's health... http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130427/MAGAZINE/301049828 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130419/MAGAZINE/304209957/how-to-fix-the-sgr http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130419/MAGAZINE/304209957/AR/0/Medicare-slow-growing.jpg Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EST Some see the stars aligning for a once-in-a-lifetime shift in the way clinicians are paid. But the future physician payment system could end up looking a lot like the past. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130419/MAGAZINE/304209957 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130412/MAGAZINE/304139973/painful-side-effects http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130412/MAGAZINE/304139973/AR/0/Medicare-Part-D.jpg Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EST Abuse of prescription painkillers causes more fatalities than heroin and cocaine combined. Yet efforts to stop the Medicare fraud that puts drugs on the black market aren't working as they should. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130412/MAGAZINE/304139973 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130406/MAGAZINE/304069946/emphasis-on-education http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130406/MAGAZINE/304069946/AR/0/Megan-Rooney.jpg Sat, 6 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EST When Dr. Ruth Parker talks to providers about the need to focus on health literacy, she rarely encounters anyone who doesn't agree that it's an issue with serious implications for healthcare outcomes. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130406/MAGAZINE/304069946 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130330/MAGAZINE/303309975/primed-to-buy http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130330/MAGAZINE/303309975/AR/0/AR-303309975.jpg Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EST Some of the nation's largest for-profit hospital chains are sitting on mounting cash piles, suggesting to analysts that a wave of dealmaking may be in the offing. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130330/MAGAZINE/303309975 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130322/MAGAZINE/303239968/data-driven http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130322/MAGAZINE/303239968/AR/0/Dawn-Pullen.jpg Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EST In 1980, armed with an aptitude for science, Dawn Endris was 19 years old and had her career path already chosen. "I always wanted to get into nursing," she recalls. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130322/MAGAZINE/303239968 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130316/MAGAZINE/303169954/missing-the-target http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130316/MAGAZINE/303169954/AR/0/Who-pays-for-testing--graph.jpg Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EST Both providers and payers have been saying for years that personalized medicine will radically alter the way that cancer patients receive care. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130316/MAGAZINE/303169954 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130309/MAGAZINE/303099979/execs-in-training http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130309/MAGAZINE/303099979/AR/0/Healthcare-management-graduate-programs.jpg Sat, 9 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EST For the colleges and universities that train the next generation of healthcare leaders, health reform's wave of new regulation and market activity has prompted new faculty hires and new curricula. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130309/MAGAZINE/303099979 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130308/MAGAZINE/303099955/expand-and-contract http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130308/MAGAZINE/303099955/AR/0/Medicaid-providers-map.jpg Fri, 8 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EST Worries about low state Medicaid rates are growing as at least 25 states appear poised to undertake a historic broadening of their Medicaid programs' eligibility, according to health policy experts. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130308/MAGAZINE/303099955 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130222/MAGAZINE/302239959/under-the-microscope http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130222/MAGAZINE/302239959/AR/0/AR-302239959.jpg Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:01:00 EST The popular notion in healthcare is that the most aggressive fraud hunters -- known as "zone program integrity contractors," or ZPICs -- focus on small players. That idea is wrong. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130222/MAGAZINE/302239959 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130216/MAGAZINE/302169954/building-a-nimble-hospital http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20130216/MAGAZINE/302169954/AR/0/Gates-Vascular-Institute.jpg Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:01:00 EST Though it might seem counterintuitive, healthcare design experts are saying standardization is the key to flexibility -- and the ability to be flexible can mean the difference between going ahead with a construction project or going through... http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130216/MAGAZINE/302169954