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AHA Report Estimates ACO Price Tag
A new report looks at the cost of participation for hospitals in ACOs, as well as the capabilities they will need to develop.
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Value-Based Purchasing Comes to Hawaii
Hawaii hospitals and insurers go all in on value-based purchasing
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Federal Report Questions Health IT Security Standards
A new OIG report questions health IT security standards.
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Data: CDC Heralds Major Public Health Gains
A new CDC report looks at major improvements in public health in the 2000s.
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Hawaii Hospitals Take a Chance on Value-Based Purchasing
Can a Hawaii collaborative between hospitals and insurers make value-based purchasing work?
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Data: Medicare Hospitalizations for Heart Trouble Declining
Hospitalizations for Medicare patients with heart trouble fell by nearly a quarter between 1998 and 2008.
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Forget Quality and Amenities: It's All About Communication
What really drives patient satisfaction?
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Medicare 2040: What Will Gen X Beneficiaries Want?
Health care futurists predict rapid changes in care provision in coming decades. What will that mean for Medicare?
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Report: Fewer Young Adults Uninsured, Slight Increase for Older Americans
Young adults aged 18-26 saw a major drop in their uninsured ranks in the first four months of 2011.
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U.S. Health Costs Dwarf Similar Countries: What's the Solution?
A new Kaiser report finds that the growth of U.S. health care costs still far exceed other developed nations.
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Report: Number of Americans with Work-Based Health Insurance Drops
59 percent of Americans had work-based health insurance in 2009, the lowest number in at least 10 years.
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Patient Privacy and Your Facebook Status
What Tweets and Facebook status updates mean for patient privacy.
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Journey to Accountable Care: Intermountain Healthcare
Intermountain Healthcare leaders discuss clinical integration, bending the national cost curve and building IT systems that work for clinicians.
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What's Your ACO Gripe?
Send in your take on the pros and cons of the 429-page proposed ACO rule.
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Report: Fewer Medicare Patients Dying in Hospitals
A new Dartmouth Atlas report finds that chronically ill Medicare patients are spending less time in hospitals and more time in hospice care.
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Meaningful Use: Is It Time to Attest?
Should hospitals attest for meaningful use funding now, or later?
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Readers Sound Off: EMTALA, ACOs and the Future CEO
Your thoughts on recent articles, blogs and podcasts
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Report: More Americans Taking Vitamins, Supplements
Over 50 percent of Americans take at least one dietary supplement, according to a new CDC report.
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Momentum Builds on Disparities Reduction
Disparities work is moving from an isolated area of focus to a central component of overall patient care.
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Report: Adverse Events Occur in a Third of Admissions
A new report in Health Affairs suggests that adverse events may be higher than previously suspected.
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