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Healthcare's weighty problem
I'm going to start my not phat odyssey with Kaiser Permanente going into cahoots with the purveyor of mildly charming mobsters, bayou vampires and dwarf royalty. The end result was "The...
Insurers launch more anti-obesity programs
As the obesity epidemic increasingly garners nationwide attention and calls for action, insurers have been responding by changing coverage options, as well as establishing new anti-obesity programs and incentives.
Insurers shift marketing budgets toward individual consumers
Five of the nation's largest health insurers spent a combined $366.8 million on advertising in 2011, an almost 52 percent increase from the year before.
Healthcare workers, hospitals agree to drop minimum charity care, pricing caps
A major healthcare labor union in California has reached an agreement with the state's hospitals to drop ballot initiatives that would have put charity care floors and pricing caps on many
HHS moves to mathematical modeling for research, intervention evaluation
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has decided to use a new method of mathematical modeling to research, analyze and evaluate the effects of specific healthcare interventions. Under
Hospital leadership support crucial in going green
Hospitals embracing sustainability, such as recycling programs, food management and other waste-reduction initiatives, require a commitment from the top, according to yesterday's report by the Health
Joint iEHR to use 3M 'Data Dictionary' terminology
The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are planning to use 3M's Health Data Dictionary (HDD) to normalize clinical terminology in their joint iEHR system ,
Decision support, predictive modeling may speed clinical research
The clinical research community has been looking for new and better ways to conduct expensive and time-consuming clinical trials--using clinical trial management systems, recruiting patients online
Attacking prescription abuse from all angles
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, one-third of Americans suffer persistent pain that can last from weeks to years. But with physicians increasingly being held liable when patients
BYOD approach makes inroads at Kaiser Permanente
The bring-your-own-device trend continues to snowball. After a recent report from Aruba Networks found that 85 percent of hospitals are supporting mobile BYOD, healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente
