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Maine Medical Center's Vice President of Development and former chair of the board of directors for the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), Susan Doliner, believes there's reason to be optimistic when it comes to the 2013 fundraising outlook for hospitals and healthcare systems.
While Connecticut's 2014-2015 budget has yet to be finalized, hospitals and healthcare systems in the state are claiming that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed cuts of more than $500 million in hospital funding over the next two years would be devastating.
With doctors across the country continually on pins and needles regarding their reimbursement rates, proponents of telemedicine and telehealth are telling doctors the technologies offer them a stable revenue stream and lifestyle options.
By a majority decision of 76%, a nine year renewal of a local property tax ensuring access to healthcare for the uninsured or underinsured was passed.
In order for the country's healthcare system to survive in the next few years, every healthcare provider is going to have no choice but to make innovative changes and involve patients in the care process. So said longtime health IT advocate C. Peter Waegemann, founder of the now-defunct Medical Records Institute, during a webinar Thursday.
A new report by Trust for America's Health says prevention improves health and productivity and saves billions, but is prevention really cost effective?
With a growing focus on continuity of care across settings, the Hospital Corporation of America North Texas Division (HCA) and First Choice Emergency Room, a freestanding emergency room system, have formed a partnership to increase access in Dallas-Ft. Worth region.
In the early days of the latest incarnation of the patient-centered medical home, William Warning II, MD, the program director of a family medicine residency program, recognized an opportunity, and he wasn’t going to sit back and let it pass him – or his program – by.
A few years back, the nation’s most notorious junk food junkie had a change of heart. Cookie Monster, who subsisted solely on the chocolate chip cookies, went from singing, “C is for cookie,” to “eat poultry and greens along with your chocolate chips.”
With no comprehensive program designed to provide long-term care insurance, a panel of experts who convened in March agreed that comprehensive reform has about a five-year window for implementation in order to sufficiently meet the needs of baby boomers.