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Healthcare's $363B in 'Hidden Costs' Detailed
Consumers are spending 14.7% more on healthcare than what is conventionally cited in government accounts. The hidden costs are chiefly attributed to lost wages associated with unpaid supervisory care, Deloitte study shows.
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Part 1: How a CEO Empowered Staff to Save $3M and Their Jobs
During the recession, Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital chief Mark Newton was unwilling to take draconian measures such as layoffs. Instead, he deployed a tactic from his entrepreneurial background: He challenged his staff to find ways to cut costs themselves.
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Hospital Construction Methods Lower Costs, Raise Benefits
Advances in design and building methods such as integrated project delivery, information modeling, and tilt-up construction, are enabling delivery of high-quality facilities faster, and at a lower cost.
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Rounds: Orthopedic Leadership Strategies: Engage, Measure, and Perform
Forward-thinking orthopedic leaders are ensuring high performance and coordination among a carefully constructed caregiver team. Those leaders are also exploring the right metrics to know whether the outcomes they are tracking are the most meaningful to patients. Join the executive and clinical leadership team from nationally renowned MemorialCare Health System and orthopedic innovator Marshall Steele, MD, on March 29 for a three-hour dive into essential orthopedic leadership strategy.
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Webcast: Boost Market Share with Your Oncology Services
Given the growing trend toward all-inclusive cancer centers, do you know how to differentiate your own oncology services to protect and grow your market share? Your oncology care is distinct. Its marketing should be, too. Join HealthLeaders Media on March 31 for this 90-minute Webcast, including Q&A and a case study, for valuable lessons from marketing leaders.
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Finance Forum
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5 Ways to Maximize Profitability in Contract Negotiations
When providers are armed with the right information and resources, they can turn the negotiations around to capture all revenue rightly owed to them by payer organizations. Modeling technology, training investments, and financial forecasting are make-or-break process points to consider.
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Sponsored Headlines
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: Mayo Clinic transforms the way it processes and interprets medical imaging results to enable more accurate detection. Powerful algorithms pinpoint potential problem areas within medical images and flag them based on the probability of abnormality. This process transformation increases diagnostic sensitivity for detection of brain aneurysms through intelligent flagging of high-risk areas.
: UCLH had to adhere to the 18wkRTT requirements stated by the U.K. government. The BPM based Patient Tracking System (PTS) enabled them to better manage their clinical pathways and resources and also help improve patient experience by reducing uncertainty in the scheduling of treatments.
: This IBM® RedguideTM describes one of the most significant challenges in healthcare today: the need for healthcare providers to effect patient care positively and proactively in the face of increasing patient load and information overload. IBM WebSphere® business process management (BPM) powered by smart service-oriented architecture (SOA), or BPM powered by Smart SOA, has the potential to maintain the medical common body of knowledge. It also makes critical, current data available to practitioners in a manner that is consistent with the evidence-based, event-driven environment to which healthcare aspires. BPM powered by Smart SOA can also automate healthcare provider administrative and care delivery processes.
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Finance Headlines
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The ACO model: a three-year financial loss?
The New England Journal of Medicine, March 25, 2011
More opt for low-cost coverage
The Boston Globe, March 25, 2011
Budget battle poses threat to community health centers
The Boston Globe, March 24, 2011
Health reform one year later: A monster federal bill
The Hartford Courant, March 23, 2011
For team doctors, a tight spot
The Boston Globe, March 28, 2011
Medicare rise could mean no Social Security increase
St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Associated Press, March 28, 2011
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Webcsts/Rounds
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Rounds: Orthopedic Leadership Strategies: Engage, Measure, and Perform
March 29, 2011
Webcast: Boost Market Share with Your Oncology Services
March 31, 2011
Patient-Centered Accountable Care
April 27, 2011
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Reform Sharpens Focus on Quality Outcomes
The ability to achieve and demonstrate quality outcomes is becoming increasingly important. [Read More]
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Hospitals Waking Up to Sleep Centers
Hospitals are awakening to a growing market for sleep disorders, particularly sleep apnea linked to pulmonary conditions. And while CMS has reduced reimbursements for general sleep study programs, it has opened the door for funding for diagnosis of sleep apnea.
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Money Talk
Who's Up and Who's Down?
Sheridan Healthcare, Sunrise, FL
Rating: B
Outlook: Positive
Affected Debt: $160 million
Agency: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
Remarks: Physician outsourcing provider Sheridan Healthcare Inc. will be using funds from a proposed $160 million incremental term loan B to fund acquisitions. S&P affirmed a B corporate credit and existing issue-level ratings. The outlook was revised to positive from stable, reflecting the company's more disciplined financial policy.
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