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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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• Flat Patient Volume Adds to Fiscal Concerns for 2012
• Getting Imaging into Focus
• Disruptive Technology Causes, Cures Healthcare's Ills
• Nurses Key to Making Healthcare Better
• Top News From Around the Web

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Flat Patient Volume Adds to Fiscal Concerns for 2012

By: Karen Minich-Pourshadi, for HealthLeaders Media, December 28, 2011

Hospital and health system CFOs continue to grapple with a snaillike economic recovery. Now they have the added challenge of a federal deficit crisis that promises to put Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates in further jeopardy.

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Getting Imaging into Focus

By: Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, December 28, 2011

Health systems are adding freestanding imaging centers and aiming for around-the-clock coverage. At the same time, they are are being pressed to reduce extravagant and unnecessary imaging costs and to improve patient outcomes.

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Disruptive Technology Causes, Cures Healthcare's Ills

By: Edward Prewitt, for HealthLeaders Media, December 27, 2011

New technologies can turn industries upside down. While technology might provide the fix for healthcare, it's worth asking whether the cause of healthcare's problems can really be its solution. To tease out this conundrum, it helps to think clearly about the different types of technology that affect healthcare.

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Nurses Key to Making Healthcare Better

By: Rebecca Hendren, for HealthLeaders Media, December 27, 2011

Nurses make a strong showing in this year's HealthLeaders 20, our annual profile of individuals who are making a difference in healthcare.

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Around the Web

• Neonatal telemedicine could save Medicaid $186M
  InformationWeek, December 28, 2011
• The high cost of failing artificial hips
  The New York Times, December 28, 2011
• Fee coming for medical effectiveness research
  Boston Herald/Associated Press, December 28, 2011
• Healthcare workers question some ICU care decisions
  Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2011
• Deal appears to avert nurses’ strike at two NYC hospitals
  The New York Times, December 28, 2011
• CT Hospitals: Same surgery, widely different rates
  C-HIT, December 28, 2011
• Harvard study focuses on hospital readmission rates
  Winston-Salem Journal, December 28, 2011
• CA hospital facing bleak prognosis
  Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2011
• Healthcare e-transaction change needs more time
  InformationWeek, December 28, 2011
• Building one big HIT pipe
  Health Data Management, December 28, 2011
• ICD-10 News: Looking back to the top stories of 2011
  Government Health IT, December 28, 2011
• Walgreens customers complain of privacy violations, delays
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 28, 2011

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Features

• Top 12 Healthcare Buzzwords for 2012
  Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, December 27, 2011
• Ready or Not, Reform Under Way
  Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, December 19, 2011
• HL20: Robert D. Donaldson, NPC—The Nurse Practitioner-Run ED
  Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, December 13, 2011
• 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better—2011
  HealthLeaders Media Staff, December 19, 2011

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