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Hospitals No Longer Non-Profit?
Hospitals in the United States are a mix of for-profit and non-profit…
Physicians Leaving – Things Just Aren’t Working Out Between Us….
"Things just aren't working out between us." That's what some doctors are…
ACO Program Rejected by Model Health Plans
During the health care debate, the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Geisinger…
Are Readmissions Always Bad?
Medicare will penalize hospitals for high readmissions rates, starting in 2013. But…
During Nurses Strike, Patient Dies Due to Medical Error
Everyone talks about disruption being good, well not always. A medical error…
Hospital of the Future? Chaum Life Center for Personalized Medicine
During a recent visit to Korea, FUS Foundation Director of Global Business…
Difficult Patients and Unnecessary Catheters. Could They be Related?
Two stores in the latest Today’s Hospitalist caught my eye. The first,…
Many of the ACA Quality-Enhancing Ideas Have Previously Failed
One of the many pilot projects of health reform is to reduce…
Hoag Hospital Using daVinci Robot for Gynecologic Surgery Procedures
According to their website the hospital is using the latest version of…