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Special Report Extra
 
Welcome to Modern Healthcare’s Special Report Extra podcast series. Each edition of Special Report Extra amplifies a related Special Report that appears in the weekly edition of Modern Healthcare, the nation’s leading healthcare business publication. With each edition of Special Report Extra, listeners hear directly from key healthcare executives and leaders involved in the major events shaping the industry.

For more information on the Special Report Extra podcast series, please contact Editor David Burda at 312-649-5439 or dburda@crain.com.

Podcast: Compensation expert Larry Reissman on trends in the healthcare sector

August 03, 2009
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Joe Carlson talks with Larry Reissman, a principal with Boston-based human resources firm Buck Consultants. Reissman discusses issues such as transparency in executive...
... FULL STORY

Podcast: InterHealth CFO Mitchell Thomas on the structuring of a recent bond issue

June 14, 2009
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans talks with Mitchell Thomas, senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer of InterHealth Corp., a not-for-profit in Whittier, Calif., that...
... FULL STORY

What nurses can bring to the table as members of governing boards

April 13, 2009
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans talks with Joanne Disch, a clinical professor and director of the Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership at the University of...
... FULL STORY

How green energy purchasing and other approaches help hospitals control costs

March 09, 2009
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Shawn Rhea with John Bick, managing principal at Priority Power Management, an energy consulting firm based in Midland, Texas. Bick discusses some of the challenges...
... FULL STORY

How the economic turmoil is affecting strategic planning at one Fla. system

February 09, 2009
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans talks with Joe Felkner, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Baptist Health Care Corp., Pensacola, Fla. Felkner discusses how the recession...
... FULL STORY

A look at the challenges ahead for the VA's VistA information system

February 02, 2009
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Joseph Conn talks with Gordon Moreshead, a former VA programmer and now president of Informatix Laboratories Corp., a software development firm based in Salt Lake City.
... FULL STORY

Sharp HealthCare’s CEO on the IHN’s efforts involving health IT

January 26, 2009
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Joe Carlson talks with Michael Murphy, president and CEO of Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, about the integrated health network's use of information technology and...
... FULL STORY

A look back at 2008 M&A activity and the outlook for this year

January 19, 2009
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Vince Galloro talks with Philip Pfrang, a partner with consulting firm Deloitte, about trends in mergers and acquisitions.
... FULL STORY

Weighing impact of bad doc behavior on medical outcomes

December 08, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Jean DerGurahian talks with Dean Griffen, chairman of the American College of Surgeons Patient Safety and Professional Liability Committee, about the impact of doctors’...
... FULL STORY

Getting creative in financing big-ticket medical technology

December 01, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Shawn Rhea talks with Tim Harlin, chief executive officer of Randolph Medical Center, a critical-access hospital in Roanoke, Ala. Harlin discusses financing strategies...
... FULL STORY

Sorting through legal issues facing ambulatory surgery centers

November 24, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Gregg Blesch talks with Dennis Simmons, chief operating officer of the Wayne (N.J.) Surgical Center, discussing the legal skirmishes involving ambulatory surgery...
... FULL STORY

Employers begin to focus more on outcomes in wellness programs

October 27, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Rebecca Vesely talks with Thomas Parry, president of the Integrated Benefits Institute, a San Francisco-based firm that advises companies on the business value of...
... FULL STORY

Possible links between medical records and national security interests

October 13, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Joseph Conn talks with Twila Brase, president of the not-for-profit Citizens' Council on Health Care, a patient-privacy advocacy organization based in St. Paul, Minn.
... FULL STORY

A look at Google Health, PHRs, provider partnerships and patient-privacy issues

September 29, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Rebecca Vesely talks with Missy Krasner, product marketing manager for Google Health, of Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant Google. Krasner discusses the...
... FULL STORY

What’s holding back foreign direct investment in healthcare providers?

September 08, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Vince Galloro talks with James Brennan, a head coach with the consulting firm VirtualCDO, Great River, N.Y., about what’s holding back foreign direct investment in...
... FULL STORY

Who says that playing video games is bad for you? These are downright healthy

August 18, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Jessica Zigmond talks with Debra Lieberman, director of the Health Games Research program, based at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about the role of...
... FULL STORY

Hospitals, systems work to 'green' the food chain, helping patients, the planet

August 04, 2008
In an exclusive podcast interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Shawn Rhea talks with Jamie Harvie, coordinator of the Healthy Food in Health Care initiative with the organization Health Care Without Harm, about ways to help...
... FULL STORY

Coalition working to establish proton-beam center

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July 21, 2008
Nancy Schlichting, president and chief executive officer of Henry Ford Health System, discusses a Michigan coalition's efforts to bring proton-beam therapy to the state. She was interviewed by Modern Healthcare reporter...
... FULL STORY

They’re coming from afar to get healthcare in America

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July 17, 2008
In an exclusive podcast interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Jean DerGurahian talks with Leonard Karp, president and chief executive officer of Philadelphia International Medicine, about the myriad challenges foreign...
... FULL STORY

Healthcare organizations wrestling with the question of security

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June 30, 2008
In an exclusive podcast interview with Modern Healthcare reporter Gregg Blesch, Tony York, president of the International Association for Healthcare Safety & Security, discusses security issues faced by healthcare...
... FULL STORY

Will it hold up in court? How to secure the legal status of an electronic medical record

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June 11, 2008
In an exclusive podcast interview, Michelle Dougherty, director of practice leadership for the American Health Information Management Association, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Joseph Conn about the legal issues being...
... FULL STORY

Safety concerns temper the lure of savings from buying medical products from offshore suppliers

May 26, 2008
In an exclusive podcast interview, Robert Karcher, assistant vice president of contract operations at GNYHA Ventures—an arm of the Greater New York Hospital Association—tells Modern Healthcare reporter Shawn Rhea about the...
... FULL STORY

CMS tells critical-access hospitals that there’s a limit to how far they can go

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May 05, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Tim Fry, manager of government affairs for the National Rural Health Association in Washington, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Jessica Zigmond about the revised guidance from the federal...
... FULL STORY

VA measuring the role of nurses in improving healthcare quality, efficiency

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April 21, 2008
In an exclusive interview, Bonny Collins, program manager of the VA's Nursing Outcomes Database, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans about the connection between nursing and the quality of patient care and how the VA is using...
... FULL STORY

What’s at stake for hospitals in the pending class-action antitrust lawsuits over setting nurse wages?

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March 24, 2008
Jeff Miles, a healthcare antitrust attorney with Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver in Washington, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans about the legal, business and policy issues raised by the pending class-action antitrust lawsuits...
... FULL STORY

How hospitals and health systems are capitalizing on the growth of retail health clinics across the U.S.

March 06, 2008
Web Golinkin, president and chief executive officer of RediClinic and president of the Convenient Care Association, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Andis Robeznieks about the factors behind the explosive growth in...
... FULL STORY

How the Veterans Affairs Department’s need for behavioral healthcare providers is affecting the private healthcare sector

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February 18, 2008
Chuck Ingoglia, vice president for public policy at the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Jessica Zigmond in an exclusive interview how the Veterans Affairs...
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What 20 years of collecting and reporting clinical outcome data in Pennsylvania can teach other states

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February 04, 2008
Ann Torregrossa, deputy director and director of policy for the Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform in Pennsylvania, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Jean DerGurahian in an exclusive interview why public reporting of...
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Why more states are requiring not-for-profit hospitals to publicly report their community benefits

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January 21, 2008
Renee Markus Hodin, a project director with patient-advocacy group Community Catalyst, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans in an exclusive interview why a growing number of states are requiring not-for-profit hospitals to publicly...
... FULL STORY

Why is the IRS looking at revenue that not-for-profit hospitals generate from their physician practices?

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January 04, 2008
Healthcare tax attorney Edward Kornreich explains to Modern Healthcare legal reporter Gregg Blesch why a recent IRS private letter ruling threatened the legal status quo by suggesting that money a tax-exempt hospital collects from physician...
... FULL STORY


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