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Healthcare Reform Could Lower Insurance Costs for Rural Consumers 27 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
As we continue to assess the Affordable Care Act’s impact on all facets of the healthcare industry, we turn now to the impact reform is having on rural care. According to Nebraska’s Center for Rural A...
Trend: Many Healthcare Systems are Becoming Provider-Payers 24 Aug 2013 | 02:26 am
Forecasting healthcare trends is a lot like predicting the weather: your odds of being right are largely dependent on the shifting winds. However, here’s a trend that seems to be as certain as the gat...
OIG Challenges Rural Healthcare’s Critical Access Designations 21 Aug 2013 | 02:30 am
A series of recommendations from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General were proposed last week that could create yet another threat to rural healthcare organizat...
Could Efforts to Repeal Obamacare be Stunting Healthcare Jobs Growth? 17 Aug 2013 | 12:52 am
The healthcare employment boom, prevalent for the last two decades, has abruptly hit a plateau in 2013, Danielle Kurtzleben reports over at U.S. News & World Report. “The recent July jobs data showed ...
Success! Florida Hospitals Reduce Readmissions and Complications after Five-Year Campaign 15 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
The news out of Florida this week should provide encouragement for healthcare leaders and professionals around the country who are striving to improve patient outcomes. As a report released this week ...
Shaky Financial State of Not-for-Profit Hospitals Persists 14 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
When it comes to increasing operational efficiencies, not-for-profit hospitals are pulling their weight, John Commins reports at HealthLeaders Media. In fact, 2012 was a successful year in discovering...
Tips for Minimizing Hassles in Transitioning to ICD-10 13 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
The Great ICD-10 Transition of 2013/14 continues as many healthcare organizations rush to meet the Oct. 1, 2014, deadline, a date that seems to be around the corner even though it’s over a year away. ...
Solving the Healthcare Staffing Crisis 12 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
By now, most healthcare leaders have no need to be reminded of the staffing challenges taxing hospitals and organizations today, and as Marla Durben Hirsch observed in a recent article at FierceHealth...
Healthcare Surpasses Other Industries in Having Most Hazardous Workplace 9 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
We spend a great deal of time discussing patient safety in healthcare, but let’s stop and ponder the issue of staff safety for a second. According to an article by Fatimah Waseem in USA Today, “Health...
A Case of Mistaken Identity: The EHR Dilemma (Part 3 of 3) 8 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
Yesterday, we started looking at four of the technologies hospitals are using to help bridge the gap between their EHR platform and other platforms in their organization that are hindering proper pati...
