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How Technology, Analytics and Big Data Are Transforming Healthcare Delivery

How Technology, Analytics and Big Data Are Transforming Healthcare Delivery  In today’s digital age, a growing number of employers are embracing technology, analytics and big data to ...

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Monday, February 11, 2013 7:17 PM GMT

It’s a small world after all - staying connected on business travel in Australia

[HealthBlog]
Yesterday morning I arrived in Brisbane, Australia. After a 14 hour direct flight from LA, I was more than ready to get a little exercise before heading full speed into this year’s multi-city busine...
Monday, February 11, 2013 9:42 AM GMT

Commonwealth Fund report examines challenges facing doctors internationally

[Health Care Finance News]
Communication and teamwork across healthcare systems appears to be a nearly universal challenge, according to a survey of nearly 9,800 primary care physicians representing 11 nations. The Commonwealth...
Monday, February 11, 2013 9:41 AM GMT

Health cost transparency on the W-2: sticker shock at the point-of-paystub

[HealthPopuli]
If you receive health insurance benefits from your employer, you’ll see a new line item on your W-2, courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service: the cost of employer-sponsored group health plan co...
Monday, February 11, 2013 8:21 AM GMT

Readmission Prevention Effort Focuses on Colon Surgery Patients

[Health Leaders Media]
Characterizing current dischargeinstructions as lacking "a systematic implementation methodology," researchers have created guidelines suggesting which post-surgical events should prompt p...
Saturday, February 09, 2013 8:00 AM GMT

What if health care…?--Susannah Fox

[e-patients.net]
For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking frien...
Friday, February 08, 2013 12:16 PM GMT

How Companies Can Foster Healthy Employees

[The Wall Street Journal Health Blog]
Many employers offer wellness programs to contain their health-care costs—and perhaps also improve morale and productivity.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:00 AM GMT

Implementation of Affordable Care Act Provisions to Improve Nursing Home Transparency, Care Quality, and Abuse Prevention

[Kaiser Family Foundation]
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the first comprehensive legislation since 1987 to expand quality of care-related requirements for nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid and improve f...
Friday, August 31, 2012 8:32 AM GMT

CHVI: For Specialty Solutions in Cancer Care, Less Can Be More

[Center For Health Value Innovation]
CHVI and Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions produce webinar focused on pathways to improving patient Outcomes ESTERO, FLA. – August 31, 2012 –When cancer patients are given more of a voice in the...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:39 PM GMT

A Smarter Planet — The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel...

[Healthnex]
The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel Interactive Dialogue Date: Wednesday, September 22, 4pm ET Location: The IBM New Intelligence Video Studio, http://www.livestream.com/newintelligence Descri...
Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 PM GMT

How to Win Friends and Influence Millennials: Health Exchanges Edition

[The Health Care Blog]
By MIKE MIESEN America is only a few months away from Exchange Day—October 1, 2013—when the state and federal health exchanges open up for business. And when they do… well, I’d surprised if a ...
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