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I think we can certainly say the cost is being shared by the consumer, much of it ending up in balance billing, that people can’t afford to pay, so I wonder what have we accomplished here? We have hospitals struggling to survive and laying off employees, so what does this report really have to...
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Mon, Apr 6 2009
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A couple nice stories about hospitals in the news this week. The first story you may have already seen, as it was the number one story emailed on the internet for a day or two this week. After each month posting my desperate hospitals series, this is refreshing to see the human touch has...
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Sat, Apr 4 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Economy, Layoffs, Patients, Desperate Hospitals, Records, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, ethics. healthcare, Emerson Hospital
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Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston made the “Desperate Hospitals” update I do every month in March, with a note about what they were doing to get staff and employees involved. (Desperate Hospitals was also featured in the Chicago Sun Times ). “Note: hats off to Mr. Levy’s approach with involving everyone...
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Thu, Apr 2 2009
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We certainly hope our physicians make the right decision, and there is a lot to say for “quality of life” by all means, but this article discusses how hospitals and doctors are rated, and obviously the ones who take great care with working with some of the most difficult situations, in other words perhaps...
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Thu, Apr 2 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economy, Desperate Hospitals, Risk Management, Hospital ratings
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Ed Bennett has done a remarkable job here compiling all the results for us. Twitter, of all the social networks takes the cake. You can visit the site for additional information and possibly even find a Twitter link for your hospital here, the list is pretty complete. Thanks for all...
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Mon, Mar 30 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Social Networks, Facebook, Blogs, Hospitals, Twitter, YouTube
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Medical transcription, the target of outsourcing, yes it is happening, but one thing missed in this entire article, which is the real long term threat to medical transcribing is “speech recognition”. Between using electronic medical records that organize and simplify patient charts, speech recognition...
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This is a start up company that hopes to bring this product to market this year. The report stated this was the easiest fund raiser he has ever experienced and when you see the product, it’s a no brainer. The user can push a button to have the keyboard retract, and that motion exposes the keyboard...
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Thu, Mar 26 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Computers, Health IT, Hospitals, MRSA, Heatlhcare, C Diff, hospital acquired infections, bacteria, Vioguard, keyboards
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Research and development with genomics is continuing at the Baylor School of Medicine; however, the construction of the new hospital has been put on hold to find additional capital through philanthropy, federal funds and other sources. BD SAN DIEGO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN...
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Through membership in the organization it is possible for hospitals to obtain discounted pricing on software and services, especially for not-for-profit institutions. We all need business intelligence today. BD McKesson recently signed an agreement with VHA Inc. , the national...
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With my running posts on “Desperate Hospitals” I thought it was only appropriate to list the Recovery Page which now has some hospital relief information posted and this changes almost daily, a good spot to check back frequently. BD A new addition to the site with a focus on hospitals and...
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This is a monthly update I started back in October 2008, when Century City Hospital, on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, located in the heart of corporate USA in the Los Angeles area could not get funding or find a buyer and had to close. This sent a message off to me that something was cooking...
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Thu, Mar 19 2009
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Not a good report for the NHS and I wonder if this is one of the facilities with a a lot of outsourced services? It’s no wonder the Prime Minister had to step in and make sure alcohol will remain affordable>>>>>> Binge-Drinking to Remain Affordable in England – Moderate...
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Well as tough as things are in the hospital business, add one more issue, if they have to perform abortions, some of the bishops want to close down the hospitals! Obviously selling 600 hospitals right now is probably a little difficult as well since there’s not much profit in the hospital business...
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Sun, Mar 15 2009
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Doctors get to select where they want to go and how long they will be able to stay at the facility. This used to be pretty dominant in rural areas, but not any more, in the big metropolitan areas too as shortages are appearing everywhere. Of all places, I would not have thought of Kaiser...
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Tue, Mar 10 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Kaiser, Medical Records, PHR, Hospitals, EMR/EHR, substitute doctor, locum tenens, temporary doctor, tempoary health, traveling doctors
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This is a story about a young man who caught staph at the gym through an open cut. This not to say don’t go to the gym, just carry a towel aro und and wipe benches and other equipment before jumping on, depending on how much of the body touches the device is a clue to a degree. Staph infections...