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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, September 15, 2010
The Broadlane Group serves more than 1,100 acute care hospitals and 50,000 non-acute care facilities nationwide. Supply chain management company MedAssets serves more than 3,300 hospitals and 40,000 non-acute healthcare providers.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, September 15, 2010
When asked to choose from four dates for which the first healthcare reform provisions officially take effect, only 14% of consumers correctly identified Sept. 23, 2010, a survey by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners found.
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By: Dom Nicastro, for HealthLeaders Media, September 15, 2010
Snooping on patient data by hospital employees keeps making headlines. Some facilities are using honeypots--fictitious medical records--to nab HIPAA violators.
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By: Elyas Bakhtiari, for HealthLeaders Media, September 14, 2010
For the millions of adults who don't regularly take their medicine as prescribed by their doctors, insurers and others in the healthcare industry are trying to figure out what incentives may improve medication adherence and, in the long run, improve quality and reduce costs.
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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, September 13, 2010
With a burgeoning patient population and a continuing physician shortage, a new model of care is considered.
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By: Rebecca Hendren, for HealthLeaders Media, September 14, 2010
There has been a spate of news articles in the last few months about nurse protests and threats of strikes. A frayed work environment lies at the heart of many of these confrontations, with a workforce that feels it is stretched too thin. Nurses are speaking up about overwork and short staffing and the effect they feel it has on patient care.
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By: Gienna Shaw, for HealthLeaders Media, September 14, 2010
Roughly half of patients surveyed said they would buy mobile technology for their health. But they don't want to pay more than $10 a month for it. And with little or no evidence that mobile health improves quality and reduce costs, insurers aren't opening their wallets.
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