A study by the the Center for Studying Health System Change and the National Institute for Health Care Reform has found that plans by Detroit-area hospitals for major capital improvements could ultimately drive up healthcare costs, according to a Crain's…
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Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola University Health System recovered a profit of $404,000 for the fiscal year ended June 30, turning around the system's $42.9 million loss for FY 2009, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.
As president of the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals, Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, has pledged to strengthen the hospitals' connections to the communities they serve, "whether they live across the street or around the world." On Dr. Nabel's appointment to Brigham…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a reminder that all entities covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act should be ready to test with their trading partners the functionality of the entities' practice management and/or…
National physician shortages are rising across the country, and the problem is only expected to increase when 32 million Americans receive health insurance for the first time in 2011, according to various reports.
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The governing board of Jackson Health System in Miami voted 11-1 to approve a proposed 2011 budget that assumes completion of a variety proposals and, even then, does not quite break even, according to a report by the Miami Herald.
Business intelligence and supply chain analytics are becoming an important focus as hospitals try to squeeze out savings while maintaining quality of care. Guillermo Ramas, vice president of strategy and product development for VHA, shares five ways developments in business…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin validating hospital outpatient quality data in late August or early September in order to determine 2011 annual payment updates, according to an AHA News Now report.
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is expected to approve a plan by Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health to build an 82-bed, $284 million hospital in Santa Rosa, Calif., according to a North Bay Business Journal report.
Hospitals are increasingly focused on tracking financial data to determine where money is wasted and where costs can be cut. Here, Stephen Mooney, president of revenue cycle solutions at Conifer Health Solutions, discusses three of the most important statistics hospitals…