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“We know that more than half of patients in America seek out health information online and we want to be a resource for not only those wanting to know more about our system of hospitals, but for those who simply want health information from a nationally recognized source.”
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Leapfrog hospitals have lower mortality and better quality of care than those that don’t report to Leapfrog.
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Kaiser’s greatest legacy is Kaiser Permanente, one of the world’s first prepaid health plans, which he co-founded with Dr. Sidney R. Garfield in 1938.
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The federal government’s new vision of HIPAA privacy enforcement and compliance has given smart heath card technology a new level of importance.
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MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), and Allina Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota and western Wisconsin have formed a partnership to pursue collaborative activities that will focus on enhancing high-quality health care services in the communities they serve.
Under the agreement, Allina and MinuteClinic will collaborate on aligning their clinical care [...]
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For most service industries, standing behind your work is hardly considered to be innovative, nor is it considered a marketplace differentiator. But, healthcare is not most service industries and it is a big deal when a hospital says that it will guarantee its work for 90 days.
That is exactly what Geisinger Health System is doing. [...]
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When it comes to achieving healthcare reform, President Obama has friends in all the right places, but the devil is still in the details.
No, this is not the title of a new country song; it is the assessment of Benjamin Heineman, a business ethics expert and senior fellow at Harvard’s schools of law and government. [...]
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