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Clinical Care
Opioid Rx Drop When Default EMR Settings ChangeElectronic medical record defaults may influence emergency department prescribing.
Clinical Care
Target Long-Term Emergency Room Frequent Users to Curb Visits and Cut CostsLong-term ED frequent users use emergency rooms on a chronic basis and have relatively high costs, researchers find.
Finance
Loopholes Limit New California Law To Guard Against Lofty Air Ambulance BillsThe new law won't protect consumers whose health plan isn't regulated by the state.
Clinical Care
Effort To Control Opioids In An ER Leaves Some Sickle Cell Patients In PainPatients say the diluted medicine doesn't give the same pain relief as a direct injection.
Clinical Care
Coping With Loss Of Hospital, Rural Town Realizes: We Don't Need A HospitalIt's been about a year since the hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., closed. The lessons for this community about meeting...
Clinical Care
Battling The Bullets From The Operating Room To The CommunitySt. Louis trauma surgeon Dr. Laurie Punch is on a mission to stop the bleeding of her patients and the...
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
Coping With (Power) Loss: California's Hospitals, Clinics, Patients Face New RealityThe outages are likely to be a long-term problem. Hospitals and clinics must be prepared for this new reality. And...
Clinical Care
Coping With (Power) Loss: California's Hospitals, Clinics, Patients Face New RealityThe Golden State's recurrent power outages this year in response to wild fires have forced patients to think about how...
Finance
Moody's: Surprise Billing Legislation Poses Risk for Air AmbulancesThe air ambulance industry faces a significant credit risk as Congress considers the Lower Health Care Costs Act.
Clinical Care
4 Models to Operate Geriatric Emergency DepartmentsThe four different approaches to establishing geriatric emergency department services vary in the amount of resources required.
Clinical Care
Freestanding Emergency Departments Can Increase Patient SpendingNew research largely supports the claims of freestanding emergency department critics.