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Editor's Picks
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Poll: Physicians Bearish on Healthcare Reform
The majority of physicians (65%) believe healthcare will deteriorate within the next five years, while only 18% expect it will improve under reform, a Thomson Reuters and HCPlexus survey finds.
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How Grumpy Patients Can Cost Hospitals Big Bucks
Patient experience is subjective, but survey data may show that patients from certain regions are easier to please than others. This matters because under proposed federal regulations, 30% of a hospital's value-based purchasing score will be weighted on patient experience scores.
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Cancer Costs May Rise 27% by 2020
Cancer costs, predicted to climb to $158 billion in 2020, pose a challenge for policymakers charged with allocating future resources for research, treatment, and prevention, researchers say.[Read More]
How to Make Millions in Hospital Revenue Reappear
Consistency is the backbone of all things healthcare, but even more so in finance, because if you are inconsistent, especially with your payers, you're likely to lose money. The ability to correctly and consistently execute charge capture can be confounding, but worthwhile. [Read More]
Rounds: Cardiac Care Leadership for Improved Alignment and Outcomes
Medical specialties are tied back to hospitals and health systems like never before; nowhere are the resulting alignment challenges more acute than in the cardiac service line, where independent practices find themselves seeking the financial shelter of integration. Join us on February 15 live from Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital and share in the lessons from executives at leading national cardiac service lines and medical groups on shared governance, clinical integration, and physician alignment.
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Webcast: Proven Strategies to Market Women's Services
Women are a vital audience to reach—is your marketing cutting it? As the primary healthcare decision-makers and the key to unlocking additional service audiences, you need up-to-date, effective marketing strategies to win women’s loyalty—thus, business—and expand your market share. Join HealthLeaders Media on January 31, at 1 p.m. (EST) for this 90-minute Webcast, including Q&A, and learn from women’s health marketing experts.[Read more]
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Leaders Forum
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Top 10 Healthcare Quality Issues for 2011
Here are the top quality challenges healthcare providers will face in 2011—many, such as imaging exposure effects, central line infections, and medical data breaches dominated headlines in 2010.
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Sponsored Headlines
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This Week's Headlines
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AMA Wants Uniform Reentry Guidelines for Physicians
HealthLeaders Media, January 26, 2011
MD Appeals Court Upholds State's Physician Self-Referral Ban
HealthLeaders Media, January 25, 2011
As GOP Readies Attack on Healthcare Reforms, HHS Touts Benefits
HealthLeaders Media, January 25, 2011
Medicare Fraud Recovery Totaled $4B in 2010
HealthLeaders Media, January 25, 2011
OCR Patient Data Breach List Hits Milestone
HealthLeaders Media, January 24, 2011
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Webcasts/Audio Conferences
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Surgeon General Addresses Electronic Health Data Security Concerns (October 4)
Strategies to Manage ED Arrivals (October 1)
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Healthcare Reform Spawns Daunting Regulations
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| The volume of new regulations required by healthcare reform legislation is daunting, but what has healthcare leaders especially concerned are the particulars, which are still under development. [Read More]
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Improving Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes
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| New approaches are resulting in less devastating impact on speech, swallowing, and appearance. [Read More]
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Audio Feature
For 31 years, David B. Nichols, MD, has been commuting once a week to Tangier Island, VA, piloting his own plane or helicopter. The 15-minute flight over the Chesapeake takes Nichols to an area where the residents have triple the rate of disease he has seen any place else. Now, as Nichols oversees final touches on the launch of a modern health clinic on the island, he actively faces his own mortality.[Listen Now]
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