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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. |
Fast Company April 2012 Christina Chaey |
Stevi Riel Provides Partnerships With Hospitals To Find Affordable Help For Patients This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Stevi Riel takes what physicians are too busy to do, and partners with hospitals to find affordable prescription solutions for underinsured patients. |
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
Is This Disease For Real? Metabolic syndrome may put you at higher risk for heart disease and diabetes, but many doctors question the diagnosis. |
CIO November 1, 2000 Susannah Patton |
The Rx Files Hospitals are prescribing healthy doses of IT to divert costly and sometimes fatal medication errors... |
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Carol Marie Cropper |
Between You, The Doctor, And The PC More physicians and hospitals are putting their medical records online |
Wired October 2006 Thomas Goetz |
The Thin Pill 75 million Americans may have something called metabolic syndrome. How Big Pharma turned obesity into a disease - then invented the drugs to cure it. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Short Workouts Shorter, more intense training is better for your health than longer, leisurely workouts |
AskMen.com Brantley Oakey |
Best Health Insurance Plans While health-care costs won't stop rising, we can curb our spending. Here is a list of the five best health insurance plans for single men based on best value. |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 |
The Doctor: Dr. Lauren Koniaris Online prescribing and record-keeping free her up for patients. |
Managed Care July 2007 Martin Sipkoff |
Hospitals Asked To Account For Errors on Their Watch Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and states may stop paying for specific hospital-acquired conditions. Will health plans follow suit? |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 |
President Bush's IT Doctor Physician/economist David Brailer, point man for the Administration's push for e-health records, on where the planning stands |
Managed Care March 2006 |
Prescription Drug Cost Increase Lowest Since 1994 A slowdown on spending for prescription drugs is credited for leading the slowing in health care costs overall, according to a recent study. |
The Motley Fool January 12, 2010 Dayana Yochim |
6 Ways to Score Cheap(er) Drugs Stop overpaying for the pills you have to pop with these simple ways to trim your prescription-drug tab. |
Managed Care December 2007 Lola Butcher |
Insurers Get Involved in Campaign Against Hospital-Acquired Infections Health plans prod hospitals to do a better job of addressing problems that kill nearly 100,000 Americans a year. |
Managed Care October 2007 |
Managed Care Outlook Medical costs, utilization rates decline again. |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2011 Jon Zifferblat |
China: Business as UNusual If there is one market that requires a click on the 'refresh' button, it's China. General Biologic provides a snapshot of what's ahead for Big Pharma in the country |
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. |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 |
Crusader for Clearer E-Info Entrepreneur Jonathan S. Bush -- yes he's related -- discusses how Web-based medical records can become a workable reality |
Managed Care March 2001 |
Does Cost-Sharing For Drugs Lead To Adverse Events? A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that HMOs' increased use of cost-sharing to soften prescription drug expenses may have actually increase overall medical costs over the long term. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 William C. Symonds |
Get Used To The Pain Another round of double-digit hikes in health-care costs is in the mail. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Hospital Bill Blunders Don't trust your hospital blindly -- you may get ripped off, big-time. |
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 Dean Foust |
Weaker Vital Signs At Hospitals The number of patients in default on their bills is off the charts |
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 December 2003 |
Electronic prescribing has no effect on formulary compliance A retrospective analysis of claims data from Aetna indicates that systems that allow physicians to enter prescriptions electronically on a handheld device that also provides drug information and formulary status have no significant effect on compliance with formularies and utilization of generics. |
CIO December 15, 2009 Kim S. Nash |
Data Sharing That Benefits Customers At Children's Hospital Boston, sharing more data, securely, promises healthier, more satisfied patients. |
Science News March 28, 2009 |
Science Past For March 28, 1959 Thoughts on patient resocialization in a mental hospital during the 1950s. |
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? |
American Family Physician January 15, 2007 Pollock et al. |
Appropriate Prescribing of Medications: An Eight-Step Approach These eight steps, along with ongoing self-directed learning, compose a systematic approach to prescribing that is efficient and practical for the family physician. |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2006 Nathan Parmelee |
Wal-Mart Goes Generic The supposed most terrible retailer of all is doing a very good thing with generic drug sales. The program will, of course, benefit Wal-Mart by creating additional traffic to its stores. This move could change the game for a number of retailers over the next few years. |
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 April 23, 2009 Catherine Arnst |
Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened. |
BusinessWeek January 7, 2010 Catherine Arnst |
Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists. |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 Catherine Arnst |
10 Ways to Cut Health-Care Costs Right Now Employers and hospitals don't have to wait for Congress to address inefficiencies and waste. |
Fast Company October 19, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt |
Generic Pharmaceutical Conference Here are five in-demand meds and their generic counterparts. |
Nursing September 2010 Margaret M. Bolton |
Sounding the alarm about metabolic syndrome Any health problem that affects a third of American adults is sure to impact your nursing practice. Metabolic syndrome, a growing and commonly silent condition, poses a significant public health crisis. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2005 Lena Chow |
Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market. |
Salon.com December 1, 1999 James B. Stewart |
Who's watching the docs? The code of silence in hospitals allows deadly mistakes to happen, but some simple reforms could help... |
Managed Care August 2002 |
Patients' unpaid bills come from physicians, hospitals With health care costs rising and the number of uninsured Americans close to 40 million, physicians and hospitals are feeling the pinch. |
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 |
The Motley Fool August 15, 2007 Mary Dalrymple |
Drug Costs Giving You a Headache? If you want to cut your prescription drug costs, you can do more than just switch to generic brands. Shop around and ask questions. It's your health, and it's your money. |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2008 |
Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances. |
Salon.com October 21, 1999 Scott Harris |
Waiting room For the great numbers of uninsured, the care may not be bad -- but the wait is. |
American Family Physician May 1, 2004 |
Vaginal Yeast Infections A general overview on vaginal yeast infections. |
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. |