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Rate of C. diff cases continues to climb outside hospitals
Findings presented at this year's American College of Gastroenterology annual meeting suggest that Clostridium difficile infections are becoming more common outside of hospitals, a grim development... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Failure to engage doctors is hampering hospital quality efforts
Physician engagement is "critical" to improving hospital quality. Too bad doctors feel so overworked, underpaid and underappreciated that it's difficult for them to truly get behind their hospital's... Read more...
Facility fees continue to bedevil patients
As we've noted previously in this publication, charging patients both physician and facility fees isn't popular with consumers. Many consumers feel taken by surprise, and often rather angry, when... Read more...
Report: RI hositals lost money last year despite increase in patient revenue
Rhode Island's hospitals lost money in 2008, not surprising given the depressed state of the overall U.S. economy, a new report notes. The report, which was published by the Rhode Island Department... Read more...
Study: More patients leaving hospitals against MD advice
A new study released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has concluded that there's been a dramatic increase in the rate of patients leaving hospitals against physician advice between... Read more...
Senators investigate hospital group purchasing organizations
Right now, about $60 billion worth of hospital supplies are bought by hospital group purchasing organizations. These organizations, known as GPOs, get their expenses from vendors who sell to them,... Read more...
Retail clinic growth falling short of expectations
It's beginning to look like the more ambitious projections for the growth of the retail clinics were, uh, a bit ambitious. While some pundits were expecting to see 2,500 retail clinics in operation... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Coping with objections to hospital social media use
Increasingly, hospital marketers are concluding that getting engaged in the social media world is important--but often, they face a boatload of resistance from their colleagues. The situation isn't... Read more...
Tom Pettibone: EHR implementation--are you ready for change?
The U.S. government has set an aggressive goal for the healthcare industry, ensuring every American has an electronic healthcare record by 2014. As President Obama's recovery package rolls out... Read more...
Dr. Robert Teague: Electronic records as is could be 'potentially dangerous'
Having been at this for about 20 years--both in design and implementation--the current crop of electronic records is most definitely not ready for prime time. In the beginning, the software... Read more...
