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By: Jeff Elliott for HealthLeaders Media, October 7, 2010
Better educated and trained nurses would fill more faculty and advanced practice roles during a shortage of qualified individuals, an Institute of Medicine report says.
By: Roxanna Guilford-Blake for HealthLeaders Media, October 7, 2010
The time is ripe for Medicare to use comparative effectiveness research to start paying equally for services that provide equivalent results without threatening patient choice, says a report in Health Affairs.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, October 7, 2010
Primary care is now the sole form of healthcare used by more than one-third of patients with a mental disorder. Whether by choice, cost, or lack of alternatives, patients are increasingly turning to their primary care providers for mental health services, study shows.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, October 7, 2010
Suburban Chicago's Delnor Health System and Central DuPage Health have announced plans to merge and create a single, integrated health system.
By: Carrie Vaughan, for HealthLeaders Media, October 5, 2010
Riverside is now working with the vendor to better communicate with its patients who have signed up for the health system's patient portal either electronically or via text message rather than by phone. But, are many patients taking advantage of these technological benefits in healthcare?
By: Cora Nucci, for HealthLeaders Media, October 6, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is freighted with anxiety-inducing provisions that are eliciting angst in all quarters. Providers fear that participating in accountable care organizations will turn them into criminals. Employers, meanwhile, fear they'll be crushed by onerous medical loss ratios.
By: Marianne Aiello, for HealthLeaders Media, October 6, 2010
The video patient testimonial is nothing new to healthcare advertising, but today multimedia campaigns enable testimonials to be richer, more informative, and more engaging.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, October 6, 2010
Better triaging of rural trauma patients to better-equipped trauma centers may ultimately save more lives. In fact, triaging severely injured patients to hospitals that are incapable of providing definitive care is associated with increased mortality, studies find.
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