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Clinicians often poor at predicting medication adherence
By Melanie Evans | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Patients do not always take prescriptions as instructed and doctors cannot always tell who has lapsed, with potentially harmful and costly consequences. But that could change with more training, better tracking and less reliance by clinicians on rules of thumb for quick decisions, wrote three...
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Merger between Henry Ford, Beaumont health systems is off
By Jay Greene, Crain's Detroit Business | May 21, 2013
Physician discontentment and cultural differences appear to have ended the six-month merger talks between Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont Health System.
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Bill takes aim at reform law's rural-floor provision
By Jessica Zigmond | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
New legislation from Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) is welcome news to 20 state hospital associations working to eliminate a contentious hospital wage-index provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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VA reopens hospital damaged by superstorm Sandy
By Melanie Evans | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Veterans Affairs Department fully reopened its Manhattan hospital after flooding from superstorm Sandy last October destroyed critical equipment and forced the hospital to close.
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Hospitals scramble to treat tornado victims
By Joe Carlson and Ashok Selvam | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Treating injuries from tornadoes is a well-established job in Oklahoma, but healthcare providers say the twister that carved a 17-mile-long path of destruction through central Oklahoma Monday produced surprising injury patterns and unusual flows of patients.
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Health records safe despite Oklahoma tornado
By Joseph Conn | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
An early report on Monday's tragedy in Oklahoma points to just how far this nation has come in a short time on health information exchange.
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Reform Update: Proponents of Medicaid expansion weigh next moves
By Rich Daly | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
As many state legislative sessions have finished or are nearing completion, advocates of expanding Medicaid eligibility are looking at their next steps.
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Not-for-profit healthcare providers move to ease pension burdens
By Beth Kutscher | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Not-for-profit healthcare providers are making a number of changes to decrease the burden of underfunded pension obligations, including making sweeping changes to their retirement plans and investment strategies.
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Groups cite gains under EHR incentive programs
By Joseph Conn | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Three healthcare organizations are defending the federal health IT booster programs against calls from GOP senators who want a “reboot.”
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Democratic analysis questions validity of insurance premium 'rate shock'
By Jonathan Block | May 20, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Where consumers live and their state's previous insurance rules may determine whether they experience “rate shock” this fall in their small business and individual plans.
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