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Editor's Picks
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Sicker Patients Seeking Emergency CareMore patients who sought medical care at the declining number of California emergency rooms are a lot sicker, and slightly more of them required admission in 2007 than they did five years earlier, according to an analysis of facility discharge data from 10 of the state's largest counties. [ Read More]
Obesity Costs U.S. $147 Billion AnnuallyThe United States is spending as much as $147 billion each year for obesity-related healthcare, representing nearly 10% of all annual medical costs. In addition, the figure is expanding—along with the nation's waistline, according to a joint study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Research Triangle Institute. [ Read More]
Feds Find Many Docs Are Using Ultrasounds Too Often, Possibly FraudulentlyMore evidence that doctors in certain geographic areas order a lot more unnecessary tests comes from a new federal report suggesting questionable ultrasound scans for Medicare patients in 20 counties where they are performed more often per beneficiary. The recent U.S. Office of Inspector General report, which looked at 2007 numbers, could mean another specialty field may be targeted for more scrutiny and spending cuts. [ Read More]
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Webcasts/Audio Conferences
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From HealthLeaders Magazine |
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Time For 'Dr. Next'?
| Generation X and its life-balancing, tech-oriented, team-playing doctors is taking over. But what kind of healthcare 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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Leaders Forum
Medicare Advantage Cuts Wrong Prescription for Improving Healthcare Efficiency: In its diagnosis of what ails the U.S. healthcare system, the Obama administration is at great risk of making a costly mistake by proposing cuts in a program that successfully addresses a core problem—the lack of coordinated care, say HealthLeaders Media contributors Robert Margolis, MD, and Craig Frances, MD. [Read More]
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Audio Feature
This audio feature offers a discussion between Technology Editor Carrie Vaughan and Edward Koschka, network vice president of information technology and chief information officer for Community Health Network in Indianapolis. He talks about the renewed focus on patient portals and RHIOs since the announcement of HITECH and the interoperability component, particularly in light of the HealthLeaders Media Industry Survey 2009, which showed that many CIOs saw such technologies as unlikely in the near term. [Listen Now]
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