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- June 12, 2013
America’s Health Rankings 2013 Senior Report
Read moreUnited health Foundation2013America’s Health Rankings Senior Report compares the health of all 50 states to each other using 34 different measures of health ranging from smoking and obesity to ICU usage. In the next 15 years, America’s senior population will grow by 53 percent. People are living longer lives...
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Five Steps for Community Hospitals to Become Great
Read moreBecker’s Hospital Review May 29, 2013 When it comes to the hospital sector, large tertiary facilities and academic medical centers like Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago garner a lot of the attention. In some regards, it makes sense. These institutions treat some of...
- June 12, 2013
A Contrarian’s View on Private Exchanges
Read moreThe Commonwealth Fun June 6, 2013 An enormous amount of ink and energy have been devoted to private health exchanges, leading some to believe they will become the next big thing in health care as large employers flock to them in droves. Champions of private exchange aren’t hard to...
- June 12, 2013
Electronic Health Records: Are We There Yet? What’s Taking So Long?
Read moreRobert Wood Johnson FoundationJune 6, 2013 I am a family physician, but one who doesn’t currently practice and importantly, one who isn’t slogging day after day through health care transformation. I do not want to be presumptuous here because the doctors and other health professionals who are doing this hard...
- June 12, 2013
Comparing Rural and Urban Medicare Part D Enrollment Patterns
Read moreUniversity of Minnesota, Rural Health Research Center May 2013 The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 facilitated prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries through the Part D program. Beginning in January 2006, Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in traditional fee-for-service Medicare could select drug coverage through a stand-alone...
- June 12, 2013
Premium Assistance in Medicaid
Read moreRobert Wood Johnson Foundation June 6, 2013 States have proposed using expansion funds to buy private coverage for Medicaid beneficiaries through the new health insurance exchanges. Nearly a year after the Supreme Court’s June 2012 decision declaring the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion optional, states continue to grapple...
- June 12, 2013
Access to EHR Notes Lauded by Patients, Providers
Read moreHealthLeaders Media May 14, 2013 In a pilot, a system which permits patients to view all the notes in their electronic health records was such a hit with hospital patients and physicians that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Geisinger Health System are dramatically expanding their OpenNotes programs. Possibly...
- June 12, 2013
CRHC’s CAH Financial Workgroup Webinar
Read moreAll Colorado CAHs are invited to join the quarterly webinars of the CAH Financial Workgroup. The next webinar will be held on June 19. For more information, contact Caleb Siem cs@coruralhealth.org.
- June 12, 2013
Rate of patients going from ED to ICU rises
Read moreNurse.com NewsMay 15, 2013 ICU admissions from the ED increased by almost 50% between 2002 and 2009, according to a study. “The increase might be the result of an older, sicker population that needs more care,” Peter Mullins, MA, the study’s lead author and a researcher with the George...
- June 12, 2013
Hospitals Thinking Beyond 30-Day Readmissions
Read moreHealthLeaders Media May 29, 2013 Operating under the assumption that the government is moving toward enacting reimbursement penalties for all-cause readmissions, some hospitals and readmission prevention experts are already developing corresponding strategies. When asked why their efforts to prevent 30-day readmissions focus only on patients with heart failure, pneumonia,...
