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SPOTLIGHT: Chronic disease management improves in Cleveland Clinic, Microsoft pilot
A collaborative pilot between Microsoft and the Cleveland Clinic found that when patients with three specific chronic conditions used medical devices in their homes to connect with doctors, patient... Read more...
No-smoking trend picks up steam
In January, news broke that Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Memorial Health Care System would begin screening potential new hires for tobacco and nicotine use and withdraw job offers when candidates test... Read more...
Cleveland Clinic backs company selling searchable patient data
The Cleveland Clinic is backing a company that will give researchers searchable access to de-identified patient data, as well as allowing participants to share their own data. The new company,... Read more...
Allina, MinuteClinic partner on retail clinics
Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals has partnered with retail clinic operator MinuteClinic in a deal setting up the health system to pull patients in from the pharmacy-based clinic. The agreement is... Read more...
The discussion continues: Are physician salaries key to health reform?
For decades, the American Medical Association has violently opposed any system other than fee-for-service medicine, but virtually any health reform that works is likely to require changes to... Read more...
Obama administration points to Cleveland Clinic as reform model
At the Cleveland Clinic, clinicians deliver care, and yet somehow manage to do it at far-lower prices than many other hospitals. According to the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, Cleveland Clinic... Read more...
'Facility fee' at Cleveland Clinic centers causing an uproar
Despite Cleveland Clinic CFO Steven Glass's assertion that without facility fees "we wouldn't be able to stay in business," many patients are becoming very upset at the thought of paying more money,... Read more...
AMA offers suggestions on cutting med school debt
When the American Medical Association has its big annual meeting next week in Chicago, it will have a full plate of issues to deal with as usual. While health reform will doubtless be at center... Read more...
AMA opposes government-backed healthcare
Add the American Medical Association to the list of those who oppose government-backed healthcare. The organization said it "strongly opposes" such an idea, as well as the possibility of allowing... Read more...
Trend: Hospitals mounting attack on retail clinic business
For a while, it was beginning to look like the retail clinic phenomenon was peaking or perhaps even petering out, with a handful of clinics even being forced out of business. But maybe the truth is... Read more...
