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Hospital Antibiotic Use Can Put Patients At Risk, Study Says
Doctors in some hospitals prescribe up to three times as many antibiotics as doctors at other hospitals, putting patients at greater risk for deadly superbug infections, according to a federal study released Tuesday. Read More »
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Hospital CEO Pay Not Tied To Quality
The compensation of nonprofit hospital executives wasn't linked to processes of care, patient outcomes, or the charity care the facility provided, a retrospective observational study found. Read More »
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Hospital CEOs See Double-Digit Pay Hikes
Trimming medical costs is the latest mantra among hospital executives, government bureaucrats, insurers and benefit managers as they grapple for ways to contain U.S. health care spending. Read More »
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Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work
In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one of the company’s hospitals in Florida. In a follow-up interview, the nurse said a doctor at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, in the small coastal city of Fort Pierce, had been performing heart procedures on patients who did not need them, putting their lives at risk. Read More »
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Hospital Charges Bear Little Relationship To The Quality Of The Care, Study Says
It’s well known that the charges hospitals list for surgeries and other procedures bear little resemblance to the actual prices most patients pay. An analysis by Castlight Health, a company that helps employers and workers compare prices, has found that the charges also bear little relationship to the quality of the care. Read More »
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Hospital Execs Fail To Measure Return On IT Investments
Hospitals do not adequately consider return on investment when measuring the success of electronic medical record systems, hospital executives said in a recent survey. Read More »
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Hospital Execs Forecast Higher IT Spending
Admissions will shift significantly from the inpatient to the outpatient setting in 2013 as providers transition to new care delivery models, says a Premier healthcare alliance survey. It also indicates that hospitals will make their biggest capital investments this year in information technology. Read More »
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Hospital Executives Can Lead Transparency Movement
Transparency of healthcare costs and outcomes rests on hospital leaders' shoulders.
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Hospital IT Spending Jumps High
Hospital executives have never been frivolous when it comes to investing in technology, but as reimbursements shrink, the need to carefully analyze each purchasing decision has never been more urgent. Read More »
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Hospital Medical Errors Now The Third Leading Cause Of Death In The U.S.
Medical errors leading to patient death are much higher than previously thought, and may be as high as 400,000 deaths a year, according to a new study in the Journal of Patient Safety. Read More »
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Hospital Monopolies: The Biggest Driver of Health Costs That Nobody Talks About
The debate about health-care reform, on both the Left and the Right, revolves almost entirely around changing the way we pay for health care...I agree that changing the way we buy health care is important—I once wrote a 6,400-word magazine article on the subject—but there’s an entire other side to that equation that we completely ignore: changing the way we sell health care. Read More »
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Hospital Participation In ACOs To Double In 2014, Survey Says
Premier expects hospital participation in accountable care organizations to double in 2014, according to its fall 2013 Economic Outlook C-suite survey. Premier’s Economic Outlook highlights emerging economic and industry trends impacting alliance members and the industry. Read More »
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Hospital-Acquired Infections Cost $10 Billion A Year
The five most common infections that patients get after they've been admitted to the hospital cost the U.S. health care system almost $10 billion a year, a new study shows. Read More »
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Hospitals and Health Systems Moving Ahead on EHR Deployment But Many Are Doubtful on Funding, KPMG Poll Finds
While almost half of business administrators at hospitals or health systems say they are more than half way to completing full electronic health record (EHR) system deployment, many have doubts about the level of funding their organizations have planned to support it, according to the results of a poll conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory services firm. Read More »
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Hospitals Buying More Doctors' Practices
The question is whether costs will decrease, patients will benefit in long run. Hospitals across the country are buying more physician practices as they prepare to move away from fee-for-service reimbursements to a system that pays for treatments focusing on outcomes and cost containment. Read More »
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