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October 19, 2009
Cara Birnbaum |
What Doctors Don't Tell You About C-sections Here's the real story, and what every woman needs to know before she gets pregnant.   |
Managed Care
November 2001
John Morrison |
Telemedicine: Cost-Effective Management of High-Risk Pregnancy Following an episode of preterm labor, use of telemedicine services can be a cost-effective tool to improve pregnancy outcome... |
Fast Company
October 2002
Charles Fishman |
Miracle of Birth Looking for inspired leadership, passionate employees, unsurpassed productivity, and grateful customers? Look to the bursting-with-life corridors of Parkland Memorial Hospital, a remarkable place that delivers more than 16,000 babies per year -- more babies than any other U.S. hospital. |
Managed Care
December 2004
Martin Sipkoff |
A Better Case for Quality: Share the Savings! Brent James's research has led to a new and powerful vision of paying for performance that binds physicians, plans and hospitals together. |
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. |
Health
May 18, 2009
Hallie Levine Sklar |
Babies After 40: The Hidden Health Risks of Mid-Life Pregnancy The number of women giving birth into their 40s and 50s and beyond is at record highs |
Managed Care
May 2002
John Carroll |
Hospital Copayments: At What Cost? High daily copayments for high-priced hospitals are coming into fashion. It's all about shifting costs, but what about quality of care? |
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. |
IDB America
October 2003
Daniel Drosdoff |
One less barrier to healthcare In Peru, a targeted health program for the poor is helping to reduce infant and maternal mortality |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2000
Toni Lapp |
ACOG Addresses Psychosocial Screening in Pregnant Women Recognizing the broad range of psychosocial issues that pregnant women face is an important step toward improving women's health and birth outcomes... |
American Family Physician
February 15, 2006
Medina & Hill |
Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes: Diagnosis and Management Physicians caring for pregnant patients should be versed in the management of preterm premature rupture of membranes because rapid diagnosis and appropriate management can result in improved outcomes. |
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. |
Managed Care
January 2008
Mary V. Mason et al. |
Optimizing the Use of 17P In Pregnant Managed Medicaid Members The initiation of 17P therapy is the factor in reducing preterm birth and decreasing NICU admissions for pregnant women with a history of preterm birth in a managed Medicaid population. |
AboutSafety
March 13, 2001 |
Workplace VDT Use Not A Risk Factor For Reduced Birth Weight, Premature Birth, NIOSH Finds Working with video display terminals does not increase a woman's risk of delivering a baby of reduced birth weight or delivering prematurely. |
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. |
American Journal of Nursing
January 2011
Marion Rita Alex |
Occupational Hazards for Pregnant Nurses Depending on her working environment, specific immunities, and stage of pregnancy, a pregnant nurse may find it difficult to avoid teratogenic and fetotoxic exposures, as well as working conditions that could jeopardize her pregnancy. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2013
Mauldin & Maddron |
Medical Office Momentum The Affordable Care Act takes some risk out of healthcare property investment. |
Managed Care
September 2007
Martin Sipkoff |
Go Carefully When Measuring Quality Gauging and rewarding good work in health care is a noble goal with potentially negative consequences. |
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. |
Salon.com
September 6, 2000
Annie Murphy Paul |
Prenatal quackery A doctor assails obstetric care in America as absurd, expensive and dysfunctional. |
Salon.com
August 3, 2000
Tracie White |
My second daughter I never saw her alive, but I will miss her for the rest of my life. |
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! |
Health
March 2008
Dorothy Fotz-Gray |
The Perfect Pregnancy Weight No more eating for two in the new guidelines for a healthy baby. |
Managed Care
July 2003
Lam et al. |
Managing Perinatal Outcomes: The Clinical Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness of Pharmacologic Treatment of Recurrent Preterm Labor Continuous subcutaneous terbutaline infusion shows improved clinical outcomes and decreased nursery costs compared with oral tocolytics in women with recurrent preterm labor. |
Managed Care
October 2002
Jones et al. |
Is 34 Weeks an Acceptable Goal For a Complicated Singleton Pregnancy? Rates of NICU admission, RDS, ventilator use, and nursery-related costs decreased significantly with each week gained. The data indicate that benefit is derived in prolonging pregnancy beyond 34 weeks. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 4, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
Is Health Care Making You Better--or Dead? Today's American health care system is set up structurally to reward the major players - hospitals, health insurers, and lawmakers - while short-changing patients and taxpayers. |
Managed Care
July 2003 |
Tiering Hospitals Pays Off For Calif. Blues Plan Blue Shield of California members are changing utilization patterns as a result of hospital tiering, say company officials. The company is making further changes in its Network Choice program. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2002
Susanna Stromberg |
Embracing death A recent study says that parents who hold their stillborn infants may be traumatized by the experience. Yes, the moments I spent with my dying newborn were the most painful of my life -- but they were also the richest. |
Nursing Management
June 2011
LaRocco & Pinchera |
The emerging trend of medical tourism Although it's difficult to find accurate data, there's general agreement that the number of Americans seeking medical care abroad is growing. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2009
Andrew Dick |
Deal Diagnosis Healthcare real estate transactions not only are driven by economic factors, but also by compliance with federal and state healthcare laws. |
Salon.com
June 26, 2000
Gina Shaw |
Out of the womb, onto the Web Make baby's first Internet connection in the maternity ward Meet BabyPressConference.com, a new service for proud new parents who can't wait to unveil their latest creation to the world.. |
Salon.com
September 3, 2002
Damien Cave |
Imaginary infants as beacons of hope Once again, Americans have conjured a baby boom out of a national tragedy. What better way to create a happy ending? |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2002
Lorie F. Cram |
Genitourinary Infections and Their Association with Preterm Labor By adopting a rational approach to the diagnosis and treatment of genitourinary infections, family physicians can substantially decrease a patient's risk of preterm delivery... |
InternetNews
April 1, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices. |
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. |
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. |
Managed Care
September 2000
Michael S. Victoroff, M.D. |
Women's Health: Is It the Conception or the Delivery? What if human reproduction changed so drastically that the automatic association between women and procreation were uncoupled? What philosophical questions would emerge in a world where "woman" and "man" merely described two ordinary features of physiognomy, like "curly" and "straight?"... |
Inc.
June 2007
Leigh Buchanan |
The Office: What to Expect When They're Expecting One day you look around, and the place is full of pregnant women. |
Insurance & Technology
July 29, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Regence Drives Successful EMR Pilot Demonstrating the potential for payer-driven electronic medical record solutions, Regence has conducted a one-year pilot project to test the feasibility of connecting an entire medical community |
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. |
