By Melanie Evans | August 09, 2010
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Health reform is expected to expand insurance to millions without it and offer households more protection from the financial distress of medical bills. But the law also leaves some newly insured vulnerable to expenses that will add stress to already strapped household budgets, health policy experts say.
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Health system executive Deborah Templeton remembers a time not so long ago when the maximum-weight capacity labeled on traditional-size patient beds, gurneys and wheelchairs topped out at about 350 pounds. These days, however, it's not unusual for such equipment to accommodate patients weighing up to 500 pounds.
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By Rebecca Vesely | July 26, 2010
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Based on personal experience, Ashok Kumar is an expert on international medical education. Kumar obtained his medical degree in India, completed his residency in the United Kingdom and now practices and teaches family medicine in San Antonio.
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By Rebecca Vesely | July 26, 2010
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Healthcare management education across the globe is also getting a closer look. The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education is studying how and where healthcare management education is being taught around the world.
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Audrey Andrews stepped into her role as Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s internal ethics cop in November of 2006, just as the hospital chain cut loose a ton of baggage. And according to an agreement entered with HHS' inspector general's office, she would lead the company's chaperoned efforts to make sure Tenet moved forward as a scrupulously law-abiding participant in federal health programs.
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Hospitals and health systems may have recovered from the acute distress of the credit crisis, but investment and debt strategies that proved riskiest during the market tumult continue to cast a shadow over balance sheets.
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It has been more than 50 years since Thomas Fogarty, then a medical student at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and a scrub technician at the nearby Good Samaritan Hospital, used a knotting technique created by fly fishermen to attach the fingertip of a surgical glove to a long piece of rubber tubing.
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One of the first tests of how well the new federal health reform law will extend coverage to the uninsured comes this summer. As early as July 1, the uninsured with pre-existing health conditions will be able to apply for coverage through temporary high-risk pools.
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the stimulus law, has a host of tight deadlines for its myriad health information technology subsidy and IT network development initiatives.
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By Jessica Zigmond | May 17, 2010
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After his wife, Cherie, was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2003, Bryan Atchley, mayor of Sevierville, Tenn., began the routine of driving 45 minutes, one way, five days each week, to 485-bed University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville so Cherie could receive radiation treatments.
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When CEOs consider the results of the Modern Healthcare annual association executive compensation survey, which finds total compensation for top executives grew rapidly in 2008, they might want to keep one number in mind: 65%.
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The idea that medical providers would someday have mobile devices that allow them to monitor, diagnose and communicate with their patients isn't exactly a new one.
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By Melanie Evans | April 26, 2010
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An effort to curb surgical infections at the largest hospital in Tucson, Ariz., recently raised an awkward proposition: requiring nasal swabs for doctors at the Tucson Orthopaedic Institute.
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Though it was dwarfed by the firestorm swirling around national healthcare reform, the long-simmering battle between nurses, doctors and specialty practitioners over who's qualified to do which jobs has reached a new level of rancor and immediacy, those close to the issue say.
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Three-and-a-half years ago, 254-bed Providence Hospital in Washington had a self-managed, on-site delicatessen that, while it served good sandwiches, was a money pit for the provider. “We were having problems with portion control,” says Beth Yesford, Providence's director of food and nutrition.
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