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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, November 16, 2009
House Republicans, frozen out of the healthcare reform debate in many areas this year, jumped on the opportunity this past weekend to criticize Democrats through a new analysis of the House reform bill (HR 3962) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Office of the Actuary. The analysis, by Chief Actuary William Foster, said that the bill may not bend the healthcare cost curve.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, November 13, 2009
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology announced that Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, is retiring from his chair of the commission position on March 31, 2010.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, November 13, 2009
The National Institutes of Health has given researchers at the University of Florida $1.6 million to determine if a new Medicare rule eliminating payment for the cost of treating in-hospital falls will lower the rate of falls among hospital patients.
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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, November 16, 2009
The National Quality Forum has released the Quality Data Set, a common technological framework to assist in defining clinical data used in measuring performance and evaluating improvement in patients' quality of care. The QDS framework will provide a standardized set of data that should be captured in patients' electronic health records and is applicable to all care settings a patient is likely to use in his or her lifetime.
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By: Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Magazine, November 12, 2009
Responding to heightened scrutiny and reimbursement cuts, healthcare CEOs are becoming increasingly interactive with a growing list of constituents.
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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, November 16, 2009
"Which Sacramento area hospitals have the lowest C-section rates?" At one, it's 1 in 5. At another, it's 1 in 12. "Which is which?" That was one of many advertisements in a recent campaign launched by the nonprofit California Healthcare Foundation in an effort to test ways of getting more consumers to ask critical quality questions about their hospital providers. In that way, providers themselves will know they are being compared and will be even more incentivized to improve their image in the public eye.
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By: Les Masterson, for HealthLeaders Media, November 13, 2009
Health insurers and employers may see chiropractic services as a nice addition on members' health plans, but a recent study suggests chiropractic care is also a way to reduce health costs and improve the value of health plans.
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By: Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, November 13, 2009
Recent controversy about the safety of the H1N1 or "swine" flu vaccine has spread to people you'd think would know better, such as healthcare workers.
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