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DETROIT — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has designated approximately 2,500 physicians in roughly 770 practices across the state as patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), a 28 percent increase over the 1,800 designatedPCMH physicians in 2010. This is the nation’s largest PCMH effort for the third consecutive year. In the patient-centered medical home model, primary care [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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