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With an increasing demand for home care services, home care businesses have been springing up in communities across the country. And with the rapid expansion of these largely unregulated businesses questions about the industry's hiring practices have begun to surface.

With an increasing demand for home care services, home care businesses have been springing up in communities across the country. And with the rapid expansion of these largely unregulated businesses questions about the industry's hiring practices have begun to surface.

The term "robotic telepresence" in home healthcare might give pause to even the most up-to-date technology junkie. Rest easy. It doesn't refer to a Skype meeting with Rosie from "The Jetsons." Though it is something akin to what we're seeing from NASA's Martian rover.

While short on tangible insights about either candidate's vision for healthcare, Wednesday night's presidential debate was filled with barbs and twisted facts about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The Medical Group Management Association is holding its annual conference October 21 to 24 and this year it's in the big state of Texas. Here is our top 10 list (in no particular order) for making your conference a memorable one.

According to a new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study, hospitals can prevent one in five central-line infections by following a list of precautions and measures, encouraging families to speak up when they observe noncompliance and doing an analysis of the causes behind every infection that does occur.

For many hospitals and healthcare systems around the country, making the decision to outsource a particular department within a facility can be both more cost effective and efficient, however, isn't always a go-to solution for healthcare leaders.

Andrew Bazemore, MD Director, The Robert Graham Center Washington, D.C.

Competition for the best physicians is fierce: hospitals and health systems want them, ambulatory surgery centers want them, physician groups want them. Gone are the days when hospitals could just assume they would be a natural fit for any physician coming into their area. Hospitals must now be proactive in recruiting physicians, and these efforts should involve the C-suite or the hospital risks losing providers to other settings.

Okay then - we have an ICD-10 implementation date: Oct. 1, 2014. It has taken 19 years for the industry to get this close to what is actually a fairly modest goal - upgrade a classification system used extensively in healthcare for reimbursement transactions, quality initiatives, epidemiological tracking and clinical research from the thirty-year-old ICD-9-CM to the latest completed version, ICD-10-CM/PCS.