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.FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
July 26, 2010
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Last summer, Middlesex Hospital officials traveled from Connecticut to Maryland to meet with Suburban Hospital executives who had recently decided to no longer go it alone.FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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Many not-for-profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans hold cash reserves in excess of minimum regulations, as they continue to raise member premiums, according to a report by Consumers Union. An analysis of 10 Blues plans indicated that seven out of the 10 plans held reserves more than three times...FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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After nearly a decade of collaboration, the Joint Commission and several behavioral health associations have completed work on a set of seven core performance measures for hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services. The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, NASMHPD...FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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The CMS has updated prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities for fiscal 2011 with a marketbasket increase of 2.25%. Published in the Federal Register, the notice highlighted that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required the marketbasket increase factor...FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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Teri Fontenot has been elected chair-elect designate of the American Hospital Association, effective January 2011. Fontenot, 57, is the president and CEO of 229-bed Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, La. She will assume the chairmanship in 2012. As chair-elect of the AHA, Fontenot will preside over...FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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Trade groups in a letter to HHS’ health information technology chief are advocating for the need to integrate global standards and electronic health records into the healthcare supply chain. In a letter to David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health IT, the Health Industry Group...FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
July 26, 2010
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Last summer, Middlesex Hospital officials traveled from Connecticut to Maryland to meet with Suburban Hospital executives who had recently decided to no longer go it alone.FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell and Rebecca Vesely |
July 26, 2010
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Democratic lawmakers put pressure on the insurance industry last week to cease and desist with attempts to undermine a new health reform provision that specifies how they can spend premium dollars.FULL STORY »
By Rebecca Vesely |
July 26, 2010
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States are beginning to accept applications for a new temporary high-risk insurance pool with $5 billion in federal funding from HHS.FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
July 26, 2010
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Plenty of multicampus hospitals have a beef with the latest CMS rule on the federal electronic health-record system subsidy program, but theirs is a problem only an act of Congress can solve.FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch |
July 26, 2010
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The Obama administration is attempting to deliver on promises made during the long road to the passage of its mammoth healthcare law, issuing regulations and follow-up legislation targeting perceived bad behavior of health plans as well as imposing discipline in its own agencies.FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea |
July 26, 2010
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Clinicians, consumer-advocacy groups and medical-product manufacturers are expressing a divergent mix of support and criticism for the Food and Drug Administration's proposed plans for creating a more transparent regulatory process.FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks |
July 26, 2010
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Amid increased scrutiny of physicians’ financial ties to the industry, Harvard Medical School revised its conflict-of-interest policy to include bans on faculty members participating in industry speaker bureaus and on faculty receiving personal gifts from industry sources.FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch |
July 26, 2010
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A new government steps into power and immediately mounts an overhaul of the nation's healthcare system of historic proportions. The changes are promised to improve the efficiency and quality of care while eliminating waste in the system. This is Britain now, not the U.S. circa 2009.FULL STORY »
By Jessica Zigmond |
July 26, 2010
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Earlier this month, HHS' Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration released a startling statistic: in 2007, suicides in the U.S. accounted for more than 34,500 deaths, nearly double the amount of homicides. That figure represents about a 4.5% increase in suicides from the previous...FULL STORY »
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.FULL STORY »
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.FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
Modern Healthcare reporter Rebecca Vesely talks with Gerard Anderson, director of the Center for Hospital Finance and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He discusses trends in medical education overseas and what the U.S. can learn from those approaches.FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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“Less than four months after Congress approved historic healthcare reform legislation, the Obama administration has been making good progress in bringing some early benefits to fruition and issuing rules to guide the reform process. Despite all of the critics' hype and scare tactics, some...FULL STORY »
By Elizabeth Gardner |
July 26, 2010
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"Accountable care organizations” is the latest catchphrase in the quest to reduce costs and improve quality.FULL STORY »
By James Tehrani |
July 26, 2010
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The Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, is an online poll designed to highlight perspectives on the most timely health-policy issues from a panel of the nation's leading health plan executives, policymakers and healthcare purchasers. It is...FULL STORY »
By Kathleen Sebelius |
July 26, 2010
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Our current healthcare system is full of competent and caring doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals working hard to do right by their patients. But the system as a whole just isn't delivering what patients or providers need. Dysfunctional incentives create fragmentation and fail to...FULL STORY »
By David Durenberger |
July 26, 2010
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As someone who has been doing health policy reform for 35 years at the local and national levels, I am beginning to get that Winston Churchill feeling—that Americans eventually get it right, but only after they've tried everything else.FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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“AMGA is pleased that Dr. Berwick has been nominated to lead CMS because he brings vast knowledge of innovative healthcare delivery, including the benefits of integrated-care models like those found in AMGA member groups. We are confident that he will bring that expertise to bear in his...FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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“Although Dr. Berwick has made contributions that have improved the quality of healthcare, he is a socialist in the truest sense of the word, because he wants government, not patients, to control our healthcare system. He has called government rationing the ‘only sensible approach to...FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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She's played a president on television and a feminist fugitive in the movies. Now Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis is stepping into a new role related to healthcare. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Davis to the California Commission on the Status of Women. The...FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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The ceremony marking the inauguration of Karen Nichols as the 114th president and first female leader of the 42,000-member American Osteopathic Association was a little different from such banquets, thanks mostly to the fact that Nichols has a comedian for a nephew, Dave Thurston, and he served as...FULL STORY »
July 26, 2010
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In The Art of War, the famed Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu advised that, “The general who wins the battle makes many calculations.”FULL STORY »
