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The Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) and its founding health systems announced a set of six challenges for hospitals nationwide aimed at improving the healthcare sector's environmental footprint during a media briefing Tuesday.
Chemotherapy treatments for privately insured patients delivered in an outpatient hospital setting cost 24 percent more than when the treatments are provided in a doctor's office, according to a new study by Avelere Health.
From Twitter accounts to Google Places, social media has become a mainstay in marketing for physician practices. John Lynn, founder of Healthcare Scene blog network and co-founder of Influential Networks, offers seven tips for marketing a physician practice to patients.
Wisconsin actually started, then stopped, building a health insurance exchange (HIX). But as the GOP presidential candidates gear up for Tuesday's primary -- and the Supreme Court mulls its decision on the the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- the health reform law and its insurance exchanges aren't the only things with a questionable future in the Badger State.
A new study by Avelere Health shows that chemotherapy treatments for privately insured patients delivered in an outpatient hospital setting cost 24 percent more than when the treatments are provided in a doctor's office.
IDC Health Insights has released a new report on best practices for establishing enterprise or community health information exchanges (HIEs).
A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and The Washington Post shows that the Supreme Court hearings last week on the Affordable Care Act damaged the opinion people have of both the court and the law.
Lancaster Pollard closed on a $25 million financing deal with Mahaska Health Partnership in Oskaloosa, Iowa, for a 52,000-square-foot expansion of the healthcare facility, the financial services firm announced Monday.
Many U.S. not-for-profit hospitals and health systems will likely face increased pension funding needs in the next several years despite an improvement in funded status in 2011, according to a Standard & Poor's Ratings Services report released Monday.
Mary Naylor has a national reputation for her work as a geriatric scholar and for her examination of the contributions of nurses to the healthcare system.