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Health Cloud Grows In Europe
Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a key enabler for enterprise-wide solutions. In the healthcare IT market, implementing cloud computing technologies effectively can assist European healthcare providers to improve the quality of medical services and the efficiency of operations, share information geographically, and manage overheads. Read More »
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Health System Turns To RFID To Slash Infection Rates
Infection control via improved hand-washing efforts is the impetus for a recently announced pilot project involving big data and wireless sensors at Columbus, Ohio-based OhioHealth. Read More »
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Health-Care Delivery: Flex Credits
Pragmatism is the lowliest of virtues. It does not inspire great works of literature, soaring rhetoric or killer quotes. Linus Torvalds’ take on it is as good as it gets: “I’m generally a very pragmatic person,” the open-source software pioneer once opined. “That which works works.” Read More »
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Healthcare Isn't A Free Market, It's A Giant Economic Scam
You hear stories about crazy medical bills, but what very few people realize is that the reality of hospital bills can often be orders of magnitude more crazy than what most people expect. [...] Stephen Brill has a very long, but absolutely gripping, detailed analysis of the insanity of medical billing for Time Magazine... Read More »
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Heart Test Costs Rise As Cardiologists Flock To Hospitals
It was late in 2009, and Willie Lawrence and the other heart specialists in his practice faced a dilemma. Should they renew their expiring office lease and commit themselves to their independent cardiology practice at Research Medical Center or shut down their business and take the jobs that local hospitals were offering? Medicare helped make the decision for them. Read More »
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HFMA Panel: Pressures for Hospitals to Merge Are Relentless
Hospitals throughout the country face constant and persistent pressure to merge, according to a panel discussion of four executives at the Health Financial Management Association's annual national institute in Orlando, Fla., last week. Read More »
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HIE Critical To Care Continuity In Natural Disasters
As some hospitals in the New York metropolitan area were forced to evacuate patients and send them to nearby facilities in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, health information exchange proved to be a vital tool in making those transitions as smooth as possible. Read More »
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HIMSS Analytics: Hospitals Slow To Progress In Their Use Of EHRs
Many hospitals have implemented electronic health record systems, but they're not rushing to embrace all that they may offer according to a new report from HIMSS Analytics. Read More »
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HIMSS14: Cloud EHR Vendors Court Hospitals
Athenahealth brings care coordination app to hospitals, while startup iCare aims to take "cloud VistA" beyond academic trials. Read More »
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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 Behaving Badly And The Devastating Consequences On The Middle Class
When big health insurers propose mergers, it makes for good antitrust enforcement theater to try to block them. However, if government officials want to address anti-competitive activities that have a dramatically bigger impact, they should shift their focus to local market provider M&A activity that consistently show prices increase after the deal is done. However, the most rapacious, anti-competitive practices I’ve seen in my entire career have come from hospitals–frequently from tax-exempt “nonprofits” that would make John D. Rockefeller blush with their brutal actions. The combined impact has created a middle class economic depression that has driven populist presidential campaign success, which was highlighted in a recently released Brookings study.
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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 Executives Can Lead Transparency Movement
Transparency of healthcare costs and outcomes rests on hospital leaders' shoulders.
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