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At the 98th meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago on Nov. 26, 2012, Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chairman of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical…
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Dan Wolterman, MBA, MHA, FACHE, has served as president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston since November 2002.
Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems.
Clinical integration is an increasingly popular strategy for hospitals to align with physicians and improve the cost and quality of care. Dennis Butts, a manager in Dixon Hughes Goodman's healthcare strategy practice, shares seven strategies for hospitals to successfully develop…
The United States healthcare system is routinely described as expensive compared with other developed countries in the world, but just how much more expensive is it, especially when it comes to hospital spending?
University of Cincinnati is considering partnering with Chongqing Medical University in China to start a joint-venture medical school there, according to a Business Courier report.
A majority of mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry result in questionable success. From 1998 to 2008, only 41 percent of approximately 220 hospitals in hospital acquisitions analyzed outperformed in their market, according to a data analysis conducted by…
Admission to the intensive care unit is a major risk factor for contracting the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection among patients colonized with MRSA, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.