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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, January 9, 2012
The ECRI Institute lists ten high-priced technologies, including radiation reduction tools and proton beam radiation therapy, that it says bear a look by healthcare leaders, but come with a slew of caveats.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, January 9, 2012
Hospitals created 9,800 new jobs in December, and 89,100 jobs in 2011, more than double the 37,300 jobs hospitals created in 2010, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.
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By: Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, January 6, 2012
Despite widespread opposition to some of the provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the majority of respondents to a HealthLeaders Media survey concede that it will improve healthcare quality. Why? Because revenue and survival are at stake.
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By: January 6, 2012
This third report in a series of four from the inaugural HealthLeaders Media CFO Exchange provides insight on cost containment from leaders at Banner Health, Wellmont Health System, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Floyd Memorial Hospital & Health Services, and Trinity Regional Health System. Eighteen percent cite "no culture of being cost-conscious" as their greatest organizational challenge to cost reduction.
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Around the Web
- Ohio begins value-based measure for Medicaid
Dayton Daily News, January 9, 2012
- Obama lawyers defend healthcare law in Supreme Court
Chicago Tribune / Reuters, January 9, 2012
- Growing losses at Aurora Sinai raise questions about its future
The Journal Sentinel, January 9, 2012
- Seven health data privacy and security trends to track in 2012
Government Health IT, January 9, 2012
- The virtual anatomy, ready for dissection
The New York Times, January 9, 2012
- AseraCare Hospice accused of Medicare fraud
The San Francisco Chronicle, January 9, 2012
- CT law nixing legitimate malpractice lawsuits
Newsday / The Associated Press, January 9, 2012
- Outgoing Erlanger CEO Jim Brexler’s severance pay on tap
Chattanooga Times Free Press, January 9, 2012
- TX Methodist Hospital chief will still see patients
Houston Chronicle, January 9, 2012
- Market pressures hit UMass Memorial
Worcester Business Journal, January 9, 2012
- Acadia Healthcare to pay $91M for hospitals
The Tennessean, January 9, 2012
- St. Joseph, Jewish hospitals merge without U of L
The Lexington Herald-Leader, January 9, 2012
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Features
- 4 Vital Issues for Physicians in 2012
Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, January 5, 2012
- Stop Using In-Hospital Mortality Rates to Judge Quality
Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, January 5, 2012
- 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better—2011
HealthLeaders Media Staff, January 3, 2012
- Population Health Pays Off
Michele Wilson for HealthLeaders Media, January 5, 2012
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