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By: Jacqueline Fellows, for HealthLeaders Media, October 10, 2012
High repeat users of emergency department services cannot easily be redirected to less expensive care, so managing these patients better is "a community resource issue," says the president of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, October 10, 2012
Payment incentives so great that they can "sway decision-making at the point of care," are slowing the adoption of comparative effectiveness research by physicians and patients, a RAND researcher says.
By: Alexandra Wilson Pecci, for HealthLeaders Media, October 9, 2012
The way nurses answer one key question strongly correlates to actual patient outcomes and patient-reported data, making them a reliable barometer of hospital quality measures, a study shows.
By: Scott Mace, for HealthLeaders Media, October 9, 2012
Money is flowing into healthcare technology initiatives. Some is federal funding, but everywhere the government doesn't go, private money appears ready to rush in. Yet much of this investment doesn't presume the continuation of the current hospital-oriented care system.
By: August 24, 2012
Date: Oct. 22, 2012, 1:00–2:30 p.m. ET
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By: September 10, 2012
Date: Oct. 16, 2012, 1:00-4:00 p.m. (ET)
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