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Nursing
How to Improve Patient Handoffs Breakdowns in communication can cost lives and dollars. Here's what it takes to create smooth patient handoffs.
Strategy
Hospital Splits This Payroll Expense 50/50 With Local Payer to Curb ER OveruseNew Ulm Medical Center struck a deal with a local payer willing to share the cost of a simple intervention....
Clinical Care
End-of-Life Care Laws Were Supposed to Help New Yorkers. They Don't Always Work.New York state has laws governing what healthcare providers are obligated to provide to patients and families facing end-of-life decisions....
Clinical Care
Some Seniors Readmitted with the Same Infections They Took Home As many as 5% of patients leaving the hospital with an infection have a 30-day readmission for that preexisting infection.
Nursing
AONL's Robyn Begley Is Not Afraid of Change in NursingOne nurse leader talks about how the nursing profession is set to evolve in the face of healthcare transformation.
Clinical Care
CMS Pilot Gives Clinicians Direct Access to Claims DataParticipanting clinicians can request a Medicare beneficiary's claims data from CMS to get a full history of care, including from...
Innovation
Doctor Alexa Will See You Now: Is Amazon Primed To Come To Your Rescue?Alexa could help doctors diagnose mental illness, autism, concussions and Parkinson's disease, or even detect when you're having a heart...
Clinical Care
I'm A CPAP Dropout: Why Many Lose Sleep Over Apnea TreatmentStudies suggest that from one-third to more than 50% of patients either stop using their CPAP machine or never bother...
Nursing
Nurse Staffing at Nursing Homes is LackingNursing homes only met nurse staffing requirements less than 60% of the time, a new analysis finds.
Strategy
BCBS Minnesota Buys Minority Stake in North Memorial Health ClinicsThe ownership structure aims to lower care costs by up to 20% over five years, by focusing on value-based care.
Strategy
Why Some See Healthcare's Vertical Mergers as Good and NecessaryThe meaningful factors driving vertical integration are largely market-based, not rooted in regulation, one professor told a Senate subcommittee.
Strategy
UCSF Medical Center Backs Off Plan To Deepen Ties With Dignity HealthThe proposal sharply split faculty and the medical staff at UCSF, who aired their differences in heated public forums. Supporters...