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Hospitals
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Posting ER wait times online: Gimmick or service?
Writing for HealthLeaders Media, Cheryl Clark looked at the growing number of hospitals that are posting their emergency room wait…
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Getting patients home safely after a hospital stay
New America Media‘s Paul Kleyman explores the effects of hospitals cutting corners when it comes to patient transitions from hospital…
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Utah tests hybrid bundled payment system
The Salt Lake Tribune‘s Lisa Rosetta explains Utah’s new bulk payment pilot program, which aims to drive down costs by…
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Obama initiatives include VA hospital report cards
Saying that “commitment to open government goes beyond the making of government-wide policy for the future,” the White House announced…
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Temp agencies a haven for problem nurses
Calling it a “free-wheeling, $4-billion industry” fueled by the nation’s chronic nursing shortage, ProPublica reporters Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein…
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Nursing blog marks anniversary of landmark report
In a two-week series of posts, the INQRI blog – the blog of the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative – is…
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Hospital’s struggle illustrates health IT woes
The University of California San Francisco Medical Center has written off more than a third of the $50 million it…
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Survey reveals how much patient privacy is at risk
Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund report on a survey in which 75 percent of…
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One town’s end-of-life talks lead to living wills
NPR’s Joseph Shapiro has unearthed an outlier in the nation’s health care cost numbers, one which demonstrates the reality of…
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NYT Mag takes deep look at data-driven medicine
David Leonhardt, writing for New York Times Magazine, profiles Brent James and Intermountain Healthcare, the hospital network he helps oversee.…