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US Hospitals Send Hundreds Of Immigrant Patients Back To Home Countries To Curb Cost Of Care

Staff Writer | Washington Post | April 23, 2013

Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico. Read More »

VA Health Care Facilities Named To 2013 “Most Wired” Hospitals List

Press Release | Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | July 22, 2013

The Department of Veterans Affairs, representing 152 VA medical centers, was recently named to the 2013 “Most Wired” hospitals list. Read More »

Verizon, WellPoint, CVS, Walgreens Ally With Former Senators To Push Telehealth Policy Reform

Deanna Pogorelc | MedCity News | February 11, 2014

A cohort of big players in connected health is joining three former senators in pursuit of policy that supports broad use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring. Read More »

VETERANS’ CORNER: VA Medical Centers Make 2013 ‘Most Wired’ List

Jim Vines | Weatherford Democrat | August 4, 2013

The 2013 “Most Wired” hospitals named the Department of Veterans Affairs, representing 152 VA medical centers, to its list. Read More »

Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association’s Shared Hospital Services Corp. Partners With Axial

Press Release | Axial Exchange, Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association (VHHA) | October 23, 2013

Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association (VHHA), [...] through its shared services affiliate (VHHA Services), responsible for identifying technology solutions for Virginia's hospitals and health systems, and Axial Exchange, Inc., [...] recently announced that they have partnered to provide VHHA member institutions access to Axial Exchange's interactive health management application. Read More »

Vocera Aims For More Intelligent Hospital Interventions

Andy Oram | EMR & HIPPA | October 14, 2016

Vocera Communications’ and Extension Healthcare’s solutions blend to take pressures off clinicians in hospitals and improve their responses to patient needs. According to Brent Lang, President and CEO of Vocera Communications, the two companies partnered together on 40 customers before the acquisition. They take data from multiple sources–such as patient monitors and electronic health records–to make intelligent decisions about “when to send alarms, whom to send them to, and what information to include” so the responding nurse or doctor has the information needed to make a quick and effective intervention.

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Wake Forest Climbs Out Of Epic Hole After EHR Adoption

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | March 4, 2014

Things are looking up for Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina after a difficult year in 2013.  Slammed by unexpected costs and huge losses stemming from the implementation of an Epic EHR system, the hospital has struggled to maintain its financial health while attracting enough patients to keep it in the black. [...] Read More »

What India Has To Teach About Running Hospitals

S.E. Smith | Care2 | November 7, 2013

Ask a Westerner for her perception of hospitals in India and she’ll probably think of the nation’s status as a “developing country” and assume that hospitals provide a mediocre standard of care without access to state of the art medical technologies. Read More »

What's The Role Of A Hospital In 10 Years?

Dave Chase | Forbes | July 24, 2013

Dr. Eric Topol was named #1 Most Influential Physician Executive in Healthcare of 2012 by Modern Healthcare so his views are closely watched. In addition to his role as a cardiologist, geneticist and author of the Creative Destruction of Medicine, he’s also the Editor-in-Chief of Medscape (WebMD’s leading physician offering). Read More »

When The Best Hospitals Are The Worst

James Hamblin | The Atlantic | July 1, 2013

Assume we successfully get health insurance for 32 million more Americans. Not a single person "falls through the cracks." [...] There's a quantifiable change in barometric pressure as the nation collectively sighs. The moment would be fleeting. Panic resumes when the newly insured try to get appointments to see doctors. Read More »

While Hospitals Cut Jobs, CEO Pay Continues To Rise

Ron Shinkman | FierceHealthFinance | June 11, 2013

Although hospitals are cutting jobs and compensation, pay for their chief executive officers continues to rise. Read More »

Why EHRs Are Not (Yet) Disruptive

Ben Wanamaker and Devin Bean | Clayton Christensen Institute | August 8, 2013

[...] EHRs are not unsuccessful because of health care providers’ ineptness. Rather, they are a potentially disruptive technology that got caught in a legacy business model that can only prioritize sustaining innovations. Read More »

Why Health Execs Don't Understand The ROI Of HIT

Jeff Rowe | Government Health IT | October 26, 2012

A new report finds that many healthcare executives are dissatisfied with their organization’s efforts to determine the return on investment (ROI) on recently installed EHR systems. Read More »

Why Is EHR Certification Endangering Stage 2 Meaningful Use?

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | December 2, 2013

The clock is already ticking for hospitals, especially those eligible and participating in the EHR Incentive Programs. Stage 2 Meaningful Use is already underway for these hospitals which must complete their attestation during one of four mandated reporting quarters. At the same time, they must continue their preparations for ICD-10 come Oct. 1, 2014. Read More »

Why Patients Will Soon Be Treated Like Valued Customers

John Casey | Axial Exchange | February 4, 2013

Why should hospitals and physicians get serious about the patient experience today? It’s good business! Read More »