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Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices.   |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Health Care's Unique Risk Select Medical is just the latest to suffer from regulatory changes. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008 |
Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Hunting For Hospitals That Measure Up New Web sites can help you become an educated health-care consumer |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Mullaney & Weintraub |
The Digital Hospital Information technology saves lives and money at one medical center, perhaps becoming the future of health care. |
Science News
March 28, 2009 |
Science Past For March 28, 1959 Thoughts on patient resocialization in a mental hospital during the 1950s. |
Managed Care
March 2007 |
Competition Wins Over Centralization Insurers who recommend a particular provider or health care organization to a patient considering a surgical procedure need to determine how complex the procedure is and how frequently the surgeon performs the procedure. |
Managed Care
October 2007
Frank Diamond |
Proceduralists Seem Up To the Task Proceduralists might help to keep hospital costs down and prevent some hospital-acquired conditions. |
Managed Care
March 2005 |
Headlines On Deadline ... Metabolic syndrome... PPO for underinsured... Hospital infections... Computerized drug prescription mistakes... |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Lorraine Woellert |
How Much Is That Brain Scan? If turning Americans into price-conscious health-care shoppers is ever going to work, it will require wholesale changes in many of the industry's most basic business practices. |
Managed Care
January 2008 |
Headlines on Deadline ... Private insurers paid $272 billion in hospital charges in 2005... More than half of health care payers surveyed planned no additional investment in transparency initiatives in 2008... |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2006
Querna & Fischman |
Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2006
Ryan Fuhrmann |
HMA Is Sickly The HCA bid could confirm that negative hospital industry trends have reached their peak. HMA CEO Joseph Vumbacco also confirmed that his company was not in talks with private equity firms, not that the stock moved up in hopes that a deal was on the horizon. |
BusinessWeek
May 3, 2004
Dean Foust |
Weaker Vital Signs At Hospitals The number of patients in default on their bills is off the charts |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2010
Tara Breton |
What's in the Patient's Medical Bill? If you want more understanding of medical billing, here are the basics of the U.S. medical reimbursement system that will hopefully assist you along with web resources on this subject. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
How to Cut Your Health-Care Costs The average family pays $4,000 in premiums for a work-sponsored health-care insurance plan. However, with a little effort, you can cut those costs considerably. |
Popular Mechanics
January 22, 2010
Amber Angelle |
How Doctors Without Borders Set Up Field Hospitals in Haiti Setting up a self-sustaining hospital, however, requires a massive logistical effort that must be performed on a tight deadline. |
InternetNews
October 29, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Welcome to Microsoft Medical Center Not content with just providing patients with access to their health records online, Microsoft is getting into the hospital software business, as well. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2006 |
U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals 2006 Discover the top 3 hospitals nationwide in each medical specialty, plus the three hospitals that led the magazine's 2006 Honor Roll. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore... Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn... Cleveland Clinic... etc. |
Fast Company
April 2006
Michael A. Prospero |
Top Scalpel Too many medical errors happen because of lousy communications. To help fix that, health care is looking to the skies. |
Managed Care
October 2003
Ed Silverman |
Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate! |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2006 |
Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities. |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2008
Brian Orelli |
2009's Generic Drugs: Who's at Risk The patent cliff is coming early for some drugmakers. |
CIO
November 1, 2000
Susannah Patton |
The Rx Files Hospitals are prescribing healthy doses of IT to divert costly and sometimes fatal medication errors... |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 6, 2004
Jonathan Byrnes |
Product Companies: Don't Undersell Services Selling more products can give a vendor additional leverage with customers, but selling the right related services can give a vendor a new strategic positioning and a host of valuable benefits. |
InternetNews
August 5, 2010 |
Another Laptop Theft Exposes 21K Patients' Data Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is in the process of notifying more than 21,000 patients that a stolen laptop has exposed some of their most sensitive personal information. |
Salon.com
June 30, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Is the White House spinning Cheney's condition? Perhaps, say some cardiologists, but not as furiously as in the past. |
Managed Care
June 2001
Jack McCain |
Leapfrog Group Actions Will Be Felt Throughout the Health Care System Thanks to a Business Roundtable-sponsored group calling for better outcomes at hospitals, health plans' lobbying efforts may pay off... |
Fast Company
September 2006
Paul Lukas |
Halcyon Hospitals In most respects, the Dream Hospital of 1953 barely hinted at future advances. But the biggest challenge hospitals may face is that medical advances could render entire wards -- and profit centers -- obsolete. |
Inc.
September 2007
Cara Cannella |
How I Did It: Todd Johnson, President and CEO, Hospital Partners of America Cost pressures may be straining health care providers, but there is money in the hospital business. |
Nursing Management
September 2011
Sally Austin |
What does EMTALA mean for you? When a patient enters your hospital, do you know what your obligations are under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act? |
Managed Care
May 2005
Frank Diamond |
Hospitals May See Plans as Their New Confidant Not only can health plans pay for performance, they can offer a mechanism for confidential discussions of mistakes. |
InternetNews
June 27, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Hospital, HMO Ratings 'Open' to Public New York State adopts online scorecards allowing employers and consumers to review local hospitals and HMOs. |
BusinessWeek
December 3, 2007
Grow & Berner |
Fresh Pain for the Uninsured As doctors and hospitals turn to GE, Citi, and smaller rivals to finance patient care, the sick pay much more. |
IDB America
September 2004
Daniel Drosdoff |
A Smarter Use of Healthcare Dollars Trinidad restructures its health system in order to improve quality and make better use of facilities. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005 |
The Doctor: Dr. Lauren Koniaris Online prescribing and record-keeping free her up for patients. |
Nursing Management
April 2009
Sharon H. Pappas |
Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome. |
Managed Care
September 2005
Ed Silverman |
No Easy Fit For Specialty Hospitals Insurers worry that specialty hospitals will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals |
