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A health care company has announced plans to open new corporate headquarters in Indianapolis, bolstering Indiana’s foothold on the burgeoning life sciences economic sector.
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Health Care Company Plans To Add 160 Jobs
Timmins health-care professionals came out in droves Wednesday, a gathering that for once, was for the faint of heart. More than 35 local agencies set up displays at the Timmins Senior Recreation Centre for Health Care Awareness Day.
By JOHN MOORE, CHILIMARK RESEARCH Earlier this week, GE announced the release of Centricity Advance, their solution for the ambulatory market. Centricity Advance is basically a build-out/rebranding of MedPlexus an SaaS EHR solution vendor that GE acquired in March 2010….
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Healthcare Reform, Payment Models & Acquisitions
Hidden in the health care reform is the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act. It’s a program helping people as young as 18 start to plan for long-term health care.
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Health care reform lets people plan for long-term care
By MERRILL GOOZNER The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reported last week on a Food and Drug Administration-supported effort to encourage companies to share data about their failed Alzheimer’s Disease drugs. Comment: We need more of this unmarket-like behavior.
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Learn from Your Competitors’ Mistakes
By Matthew Holt About a year ago GE started a campaign called Healthymagination. In the health care technology business GE had long been known for market leadership in big iron imaging like MRIs and CTs, as well as some diagnostics,…
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What exactly is Healthymagination?
By CHRIS THORMAN For nearly four years, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has been the lone entity recognized by the federal government to certify electronic health record systems. Since being named a recognized certifying body by Health…
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EMR Ratings: How Relevant Is CCHIT Certification In the HITECH Era?
By Hillary McCowen The Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference in DC last Monday, June 7th was an exciting and successful event. Thank you to everyone who attended along with HHS and ONC, who helped us put on a great…
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Health 2.0 DC Exhibit Hall Companies and Descriptions!
Wow! Thanks to the Blogger Team for highlighting my Health Care Law Blog as a Blogs of Note on Blogger Buzz , the official buzz from Blogger at Google, for Monday, June 14, 2010. More on the Historie of Blogs of Note . Welcome to all stopping by the Health Care Law Blog for the first time.
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Thanks Blogger Team! Blogs of Note – June 14, 2010
Calling all published and graduate student researchers who have used Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) data! Nominations and applications accepted through July 16. To celebrate its 20th year of HCUP data, AHRQ will be honoring researchers who have addressed…
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AHRQ’s Outstanding Achievement in Healthcare Research Award
By ED PULLEN, MD A Radical Suggestion – Pay Specialists Less Since 1997 the number of US medical students choosing to go into primary care has decreased by more than 50%. It seems that sources as diverse as the Obama…
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How Can We Encourage Medical Students to Choose Primary Care?
By ROGER COLLIER In addition to Medicare Advantage payment cuts and potential reductions in fee-for-service payment updates, PPACA includes various provisions intended to facilitate ongoing Medicare cost containment, notably creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board and the Center for…
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Pitfalls of PPACA – Accountable Care Organizations
Desperate and stuck in the middle I am the mother of an 11-month-old baby girl, Cassidy, who has CCHS (Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome), a very rare genetic mutation. Our union health care company recently changed “paperwork” companies,at which time we…
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Commentology: A mother’s plea for help
Here is another case in the annals of over-paid executives of not-for-profit health care organizations, this time from the Burlington (VT) Free-Press , Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont overpaid its former chief executive officer by $3 million over an eight-year period and has been ordered to pay the money back to its subscribers by 2012 in the form of reduced premiums , a top state regulator said Wednesday.
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On May 10, 2010, the West Virginia Board of Medicine has issued a new Policy Statement – Guidelines for Physicians in Collaborative Relationships with Advanced Nurse Practitioners or Certified Nurse Midwives; Standard of Practice . The new Policy Statement provide West Virginia physicians with guidance on the role and responsibility they play in the collaborative relationship with advanced nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwifes.
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WVBOM: Policy Statement – Guidelines for Physicians in Collaborative Relationships with Advanced Nurse Practitioners
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. The Independent Weekly, North Carolina’s home for progressive news, culture and commentary just endorsed Elaine Marshall for Senate. DFA members knew she was the best candidate for the job from the beginning, but when the state’s largest Progressive paper agrees with us, the choice for NC is clear.
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Another one to watch: Elaine Marshall Gets Key Endorsement in NC
Before we revolutionize medicine via spending hundreds of billions on IT, maybe we should first fix a far more tractable problem. From Health Beat and Maggie Mahar: A New Survey Reveals What Most Hospitals Patients Don’t Know About the Residents Who Care For Them — Part 1 Summary: Most hospital patients have no idea that the resident treating them could be coming to the end of a 30-hour shift.
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Before we revolutionize medicine via spending hundreds of billions on IT, perhaps we should first fix this problem
Last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule revising the conditions of participation (CoPs) for hospitals and critical access hospitals allowing for a new credentialing and privileging process for physicians and practitioners who provide telemedicine services. The proposed rule should make it easier on smaller hospital (especially critical access hospitals) who don’t have the in-house medical staff to adequately evaluate and privilege a wide range of specialty physicians who provide services through telemedicine.
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Credentialing and Privileging Telemedicine Physician and Practitioner
Often during a Kaizen event, teams discover an area of conflict between individuals, departments, disciplines, or even leadership. Someone recently asked me if I get tired of dealing with conflict. The question caused me to reflect on the work done in Lean healthcare organizations and my belief that dealing with …
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Respect for People & Partners