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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.   |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
September 9, 2010
Bruce Einhorn |
In Asia, Public Health Care Gets Less Public Health-care policymakers in Asia are encouraging more affluent Asians to use private hospitals and their own funds. |
Managed Care
June 2003
Maureen Glabman |
Managed Care Makes It Tough For Some Hospitals To Stay Afloat True, there are other reasons the facilities have closed, but insurers' payment rates stand out. Is it better that some are history? |
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. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2006 |
Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities. |
CFO
January 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
Operating Room Rising hospital costs, a plague to most companies, have helped some health-care CFOs nurse profits back to health. |
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. |
Science News
March 28, 2009 |
Science Past For March 28, 1959 Thoughts on patient resocialization in a mental hospital during the 1950s. |
Nursing Management
January 2011
Dawn Chiarenza |
The CNO/ROI Factor of Accreditation In a time of healthcare reimbursement changes and budget cuts, CNOs seeking Magnet recognition must be able to emphasize benefits to organizational leadership-including return on investment. |
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! |
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? |
Managed Care
November 2007
Lola Butcher |
Blues Build on CMS Program To Boost Hospital Quality The insurer throws support behind a pay-for-performance program that promises "stunning" advances in cost-effectiveness. |
BusinessWeek
May 6, 2010
David Olmos |
Data Mining Helps Hospitals Pry Fees from Patients Billing software companies are helping hospitals identify patients with enough assets to cover their bills but who may need help figuring out to do it. |
InternetNews
June 14, 2010 |
Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008 |
Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances. |
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. |
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 |
Nursing Management
March 2010
Becker & Schmidtke |
All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals. |
Salon.com
December 7, 1999
Dena Bunis |
Medical mistakes are killing us Health plans covering federal workers will be the first to improve the quality of care. |
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. |
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
Jul/Aug 2012
Farhad Manjoo |
Big Changes Are Ahead For The Healthcare Industry, Courtesy Of Big Data The importance of Big Data transcends its big hype. There are so many blue-sky proclamations for what's become known as Big Data that you need a data scientist to track them all. |
BusinessWeek
April 14, 2011
Rachel Layne |
GE and Siemens: Less May Mean More (Profits) The medical gear makers see an opportunity for their information technology units as hospitals are pressured to improve efficiency and curb waste |
InternetNews
June 18, 2010 |
Solid Growth Seen for Health Care IT Sector Key contributor to revenue growth will be the government's push to electronically store patients' medical records. |
Fast Company
April 2006 |
"MD" Doesn't Mean "Mostly Digital" How technologically backward are U.S. doctors? Here are some statistics. |
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. |
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. |
Managed Care
June 2003
John Carroll |
Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 29, 2015
Dina Gerdeman |
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records John Quelch discusses approaches to integrate patient data so that medical professionals and patients can make better decisions. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Big Blue Will See You Now A new medical-records search engine could streamline medical services and improve patient health. This system is just one more reason IBM makes a great blue chip investment. |
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. |
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 25, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Triad Hospitals Looking Healthy The rural hospital operator is in good shape. All the same, the current P/E looks a little robust for a company that will most likely grow in the mid-teens for the next few years. |
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 |
Managed Care
June 2002 |
Calif. Blues Plan Says No Tiers For Hospitals Blue Cross of California has abandoned its plan to separate hospitals by copayment tiers. |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006
Arlene Weintraub |
Should Doctors Own Hospitals? Controversy builds over a fast-growing, profit-driven business in which specialty hospitals are partly owned and run by doctors. |
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 |
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. |
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? |
Nursing
February 2012
Duncan et al. |
Early warning systems: The next level of rapid response Cardiac arrests in hospitals are usually preceded by observable signs of deterioration, which often appear 6 to 8 hours before the arrest occurs. |
IDB America
December 2003 |
IDB supports modernization of health service networks in Colombia The IDB has approved a $72 million loan to Colombia to support the reorganization of public hospital networks and improve the quality, equity and efficiency of the country's health system. |
CFO
May 1, 2009
Josh Hyatt |
Strong Medicine Boosted by a substantial injection of cash from the federal stimulus bill, electronic medical records may help relieve the pain of rising premiums by improving efficiencies in the medical system. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Big Blue Struts Its Stimulus Stuff The company announces that it had signed up four hospital groups in the U.S. to use its electronic medical records systems, after the stimulus bill contained $19 billion in grants and incentives to encourage doctors and hospitals to invest in electronic medical records. |
The Motley Fool
February 21, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Triad Hospitals Still Ailing Better days could be ahead for Triad, but they're not here yet. Here's where investing gets tricky. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2013
Mauldin & Maddron |
Medical Office Momentum The Affordable Care Act takes some risk out of healthcare property investment. |
The Motley Fool
October 25, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Unpaid Bills Bedevil Triad Doubtful accounts were up to 11.2% after excluding self-pay discounts, and the company raised its allowance for doubtful accounts for the remainder of the year. This is a key problem for hospital operators. Investors, take note. |
