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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, February 13, 2013
Researchers find that 30-day readmission rates are "not associated" with mortality rates for patients admitted for heart attack or pneumonia, and "only weakly associated within a certain range" for patients admitted for heart failure.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, February 13, 2013
Driven largely by falling patient volumes and weak revenue growth, not-for-profit healthcare debt logged a $20 billion downgrade—more than double than the previous year.
By: Alexandra Wilson Pecci, for HealthLeaders Media, February 12, 2013
Nurses in Washington, DC, are demanding staffing mandates, but the effectiveness of such laws is inconclusive despite plenty of research.
By: Scott Mace, for HealthLeaders Media, February 12, 2013
Reports of Watson's projected diagnostic prowess have fed fevered speculation that artificial intelligence is at long last about to make doctors obsolete. But IBM insists that's not Watson's role.
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