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Mayo Clinic performance rating comes under scrutiny
The White House has praised the Mayo Clinic and other Midwest clinics for performance ratings, but critics argue that Mayo's low- to no-acceptance of Medicare/Medicaid skews the results. Critics say... Read more...
David Rosenman - 9 People to Watch in Healthcare
Name: David Rosenman, MD Location: Rochester, Minnesota Profession: Director of the Mayo Clinic's innovation curriculum Fast facts: Rosenman has worked at the Mayo Clinic since 2003. Last year he was... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Mayo CEO says Medicare payment model for reform a 'catastrophe'
Mayo Clinic CEO Denis Cortese told the Wall Street Journal this week that building a public option health plan on the Medicare payment model would be a "catastrophe" for health reform. He's making... Read more...
At Mayo, pre-operative briefings lead to fewer errors
A Mayo Clinic pilot project has concluded that when the surgical team participates in a preoperative briefing prior to cardiac surgery, it leads to improved communication, fewer errors and lower... 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...
Mayo, IBM look to open source to promote EMR extraction efforts
The ongoing push to make electronic medical records mandatory isn't the easiest nut to crack, but biomedical informatics researchers with the Mayo Clinic and at IBM have figured out a way to make it... Read more...
AARP comes out with top hospitals list
A list of the top "out-of-town" hospitals was recently compiled by the AARP in what is meant to serve as a guide for patients who travel for care. The list, which is featured in the May/June issue of... Read more...
Park Nicollet will disclose physician ties to vendors
Park Nicollet Health Services has announced that it will become the first healthcare system in Minnesota to require its physicians to publicly disclose their relationships with pharmaceutical and... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Mayo Clinic offers its Rx for health system change
After a year spent traveling around the country interviewing experts and officials, Mayo Clinic has officially taken a position as to what it feels needs to change in our struggling healthcare... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Cincinnati hospitals give $44M in charity care; FDA gets tiny funding boost; and much more...
> Greater Cincinnati's hospitals have released a report which concludes that they gave more than $44 million in free care out in 2007. Read more...
