President Barack Obama signed the landmark healthcare reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law in March 2010, and now here we are, two years later, trying to absorb the ramifications of the past and prepare for the future.
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Many hospitals are building or upgrading oncology centers to more efficiently and effectively treat cancer patients.
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During 2011, healthcare mergers and acquisitions saw 980 deals worth a total of $227.4 billion, an 11 percent increase from $205.6 billion in 2010, according to an Irving Levin Associates report.
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Inside This Issue; 2012 Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting — May 17-18, Chicago.
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Becker's Hospital Review has named "70 Hospitals and Health Systems With Great Oncology Programs."
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ncreasing pressure to reduce costs and improve quality can be overwhelming for hospital leaders. Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, president of the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals in Boston, says she approaches this challenge, like others she has faced, as an opportunity.
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What does it mean to be a top-performer, exactly? The phrase is often spoken with implicit meaning, but ask any two people and you'll likely hear different definitions.
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Keith Churchwell, MD, was named executive director and CMO of Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute in July of 2009.
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I speak to at least one healthcare CEO every day and I have to tell you: From coast to coast, I am seeing something akin to panic right now.
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As hospitals and health systems across the country work toward coordinated and integrated care, most will need to alter their relationships with physicians.
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MHealth information exchange is a key goal of the HITECH Act and meaningful use program, as it is designed to enable the secure transmission of data between healthcare providers.
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This exclusive conference brings together hospital business and strategy leaders to discuss how to improve hospital and health systems in these challenging but opportunity-filled times.
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Transformation. This word is one I've been saying a lot lately. At Mercy St. Vincent, where I served as president and CEO until October, a transformation — in the form of creating a culture of continuous improvement — has been taking place over the last several years.
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After reviewing the outcomes of 10 major Medicare demonstrations, the Congressional Budget Office has found most produced little or no savings to the federal health insurance program.
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The results of a recent survey of more than 200 healthcare leaders by Jarrard, Phillips, Cate and Hancock published in the firm's Inside Baseball newsletter suggests that joint venturing with physicians is the most popular current physician alignment strategy (49.8 percent of respondents indicated using this strategy), compared to aggressively acquiring practices (26.3 percent), traditional credentialing and medical staff relations (15.1 percent) and "keeping [physicians] at bay" (8.8 percent).
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The following article is written by Nicholas J. Janiga and Jason L. Ruchaber, CFA, ASA of HealthCare Appraisers. CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.
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Sitting in the healthcare "hot seat" is a turbulent experience right now for any hospital CFO. It's similar to the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" in that the personal pressure builds the further along someone goes, and there is gradually more on the line, financially speaking.
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As Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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When it comes to a hospital's finances, most CFOs are awaiting decisions on just how much Medicare or Medicaid reimbursements will be cut.
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This past November, the American Medical Association and its House of Delegates voted to "work vigorously to stop implementation of ICD-10."
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As the hospital industry continues to push collaborative care to the forefront of the agenda, hospitals may be underestimating two critical providers in these conversations: emergency department and hospital medicine providers.
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This article briefly discusses eleven different healthcare and business issues. We have divided the article into three key sections.
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Ashland (Ore.) Community Hospital considered proposals from five health systems to partner or form an alliance.
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Ascension Health of St. Louis, Mo., named Charles Barnett as president of healthcare operations and COO.
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