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Editor's Picks
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NHS doctors told to get 'finance savvy'
National Health Service doctors in the United Kingdom have been told they must learn more about finance if the NHS is going to cope in the global recession. To help, the Audit Commission and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has issued a guide to help medics understand how NHS' budget is spent. The Commission hopes that by understanding the money side of the equation, doctors can redesign services to make them more efficient. And this knowledge will likely be needed soon: While health funding for the NHS is guaranteed until 2011, many predict the budget will be frozen or even cut after then. [Read More]
Death rates in Puerto Rican hospitals higher than in states
Patients in Puerto Rico die at statistically higher rates from heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia than those admitted to mainland U.S. hospitals, according to a recent analysis. Advocates in Puerto Rico say U.S. health reform should include efforts to bring Medicare and Medicaid payments more in line with U.S. hospitals, partly by removing reimbursement caps in the U.S. territory. The report said Puerto Rico receives about $20 per Medicaid participant vs. $330 in the states. [Read More]
HHS Will Release $350 million in H1N1 Preparedness Grants
Congress recently authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to release $350 million in preparedness grants to help public health officials and healthcare systems with their H1N1 flu preparedness efforts. To help plan for a 2009 H1N1 flu vaccination program, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued general guidance to help state and local governments prepare, notes this article by my colleague Sarah Kearns. [Read More]
Should Canada's health system become more like America's?
A recent survey found that 70% of the 1,000 Canadians interviewed thought their healthcare system was working well and that 82% believed it was superior to the system used in the United States. But Michael Rachlis, an advocate of public healthcare who is a physician and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, said that the public's enthusiasm for the system was, in itself, a problem, according to this article published in the New York Times' "Economix" blog: "Because medicare has been so popular, it's been difficult to change it, even for the better," Rachlis said, referring to Canada's public health system. The article's author, Ian Austen, uses Rachlis' comments as a jumping off point to further examine the pros and cons of Canada's healthcare system and how it compares to the United States'. [Read More]
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Global Health Headlines
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Healthcare reform critical issue: Rational reimbursement
ActionForBetterHealthcare.com - July 17, 2009
NHS must prepare for shortfall, analysis says
BBC News - July 21, 2009
Duke-Durham Partnership: Informatics Improves Health
Cynthia Johnson, for HealthLeaders Media - July 20, 2009
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Time For 'Dr. Next'?
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Generation X and its life-balancing, tech-oriented, team-playing doctors is taking over. But what kind of care will they give us? [Read More] |
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Service Line Management |
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Prepare for the Cancer Boom
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Aligning the right cancer care team and utilizing the appropriate technology is essential for maintaining a patient-centered service line. [Read More] |
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Audio Feature
Physicians and System Success: This audio feature offers a discussion between Leadership Editor Philip Betbeze and David Maizel, MD, vice president and executive medical director with Sentara Medical Group in Norfolk, VA. He speaks about physician retention and recruitment, which was cited in the HealthLeaders Media Industry Survey 2009 as the No. 2 priority among healthcare leaders, as also discusses physician group management issues. [Listen Now]
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