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Nov 19 2010

Joint Commission

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A follow-up report on preventing suicide: Focus on medical/surgical units and the emergency department

Nov 19 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The average, per capita cost of providing healthcare services in the United States rose by 7.08% for the past 12 months ending in September, a rate of growth that has slowed slightly, but which is still well above the 1.1% overall inflation for the same period

Nov 19 2010

Kaiser Health News

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A new international survey finds that U.S. consumers report greater access to specialty health care but also have a tougher time seeing a doctor on the day they need help and in paying their medical bills than consumers in many other developed nations.

Nov 19 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The controversial sustainable growth rate formula that is slated to ultimately cut physician payments by 25% beginning Dec. 1 may be done away with by a new deficit-trimming proposal.

Nov 19 2010

nextgov.com

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According to the GAO report EHRs expand the amount of available patient data available to health care providers, such as notes about the progress of treatment and medications prescribed to patients, as well as data about patient populations

Nov 19 2010

Fiscal Times

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The latest entry in the deficit reduction sweepstakes from the Bipartisan Policy Center calls for a major overhaul of Medicare financing that would turn most of the program over to the private insurance industry and cap government support.

Nov 19 2010

Boston Globe

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State regulators and the Massachusetts nursing home industry are launching a campaign today to reduce the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications for residents with dementia

Nov 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Amidst a festering PR and lobbying battle over who’s to blame for rising costs, a new study hands a weapon to the insurers. But hospitals are pushing back, arguing the research’s conclusions are flawed and unreliable.

Nov 19 2010

Chicago Tribune

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To begin the quality improvement push, a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation will work with physician practices in eight states to help primary-care doctors better coordinate the care their Medicare patients get throughout the medical system.

Nov 19 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The Dartmouth team’s report, entitled shows the wide, and hard to explain, variation across the country in care provided in the last month or two weeks of a patients life.