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Fast Company April 2012 Christina Chaey	Stevi Riel Provides Partnerships With Hospitals To Find Affordable Help For Patients This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Stevi Riel takes what physicians are too busy to do, and partners with hospitals to find affordable prescription solutions for underinsured patients.
CIO August 1, 2005 Susannah Patton	An End to Medical Forms? Patients could keep all their medical information online using iHealthRecord, a new service that Medem (a joint venture of the American Medical Association and six other medical societies) introduced in May.
BusinessWeek November 20, 2008	Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances.
Reason February 2009 Ronald Bailey	E.R. Crowding A study blames a rising population, a falling number of emergency departments, and understaffing that prevents stabilized patients from being admitted to other parts of the hospital.
Science News March 28, 2009	Science Past For March 28, 1959 Thoughts on patient resocialization in a mental hospital during the 1950s.
Fast Company April 2012 Lindsey Kratochwill	How Jay Want Prescribes A Change In The Business Of Paying For Health Care This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Jay Want sees a more efficient and cost-effective future for healthcare payments.
Managed Care April 2001 Charles Downey	EDTUs: Last Line of Defense Against Costly Inpatient Stays Many hospitals already have some variety of emergency diagnostic and treatment units. HMOs and physicians should welcome this level of care...
Fast Company November 2005 Fara Warner	Life-and-Death Design Good design is more than just a better-looking egg beater. In some cases, such as in health-care design, it's the difference between life and death.
InternetNews April 21, 2006 Tim Scannell	An Active Hand in The Healing Process Hospitals are turning to the Internet and remote reporting technologies to get patients more involved in medical decision-making.
Fast Company April 2012 Lindsey Kratochwill	Shelley Schoepflin Sanders' System Saves Lives Before They Need Saving This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Shelley Schoepflin Sanders implemented a modified early warning system in her home hospital to monitor multiple aspects of patients' health.
Managed Care December 2003 Martin Sipkoff	Health Plans Begin To Address Chronic Care Management As with so much else in health care, observing protocols, analyzing data, and rethinking benefit designs are important.
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Drew Armstrong	The Simplest Rx: Check on Your Patient Doctors and insurers cut costs by sharing information.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006	Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities.
InternetNews June 14, 2010	Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Translating Your Doctor Bill A lawsuit is currently in the works aiming to overturn an unfunded federal mandate that requires federally funded hospitals, clinics, and doctors to make translators available to patients who speak limited English.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2012 Farhad Manjoo	Big Changes Are Ahead For The Healthcare Industry, Courtesy Of Big Data The importance of Big Data transcends its big hype. There are so many blue-sky proclamations for what's become known as Big Data that you need a data scientist to track them all.
Managed Care April 2007	High-Deductible Health Plans See Less Emergency Room Use Patients who switched to a high-deductible health plan cut their emergency department use by 10 percent, compared to a control group comprising members with traditional coverage, according to a new study.
BusinessWeek February 27, 2006 Pallavi Gogoi	Steering Patients Through The System Quantum Health points people to the best care - and saves employers big bucks.
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own.
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Catherine Arnst	America's Angry Patients U.S. patients pay more, wait longer to be seen, and suffer a higher rate of medical mistakes.
Search Engine Watch December 31, 2010 Dean Stephens	Health Gets Social in 2010 The role of social media in search results is influencing how health organizations attract and treat patients.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Ame Wadler	PR: In the Loop Pharma marketers can help doctors stay abreast of the news.
American Family Physician August 1, 2005 Safeer & Keenan	Health Literacy: The Gap Between Physicians and Patients Inadequate health literacy can result in difficulty accessing health care, following instructions from a physician, and taking medication properly. Patients with inadequate health literacy are more likely to be hospitalized than patients with adequate skills.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 Brian Orelli	The Yin and Yang of Schering's Label Changes Schering gets a pair of label changes that have opposite effects for its hepatitis C drug.
PC Magazine November 4, 2003	Paging Dr. Robot The Johns Hopkins Hospital's latest physician addition, Dr. Robot, isn't a real doctor. He's a five-foot-tall robot -- a swiveling video camera and computer screen mounted on a mechanical base that allows doctors in remote locations to examine patients.
Managed Care June 2006 Twanmoh & Cunningham	When Overcrowding Paralyzes an Emergency Department Changing the process and mindset of health care professionals was the key to reducing emergency department overcrowding.
Fast Company April 2012 Tara Moore	Diane Curley Is Starting The Conversation To Curb Obesity This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Diane Curly is treating obesity like any other disease or addiction and trains nurses to talk to patients about treatment.
IDB America March 2004 Christina MacCulloch	Medicine first How an emergency drug-distribution program is revitalizing the role of local clinics in Argentina's low-income neighborhoods
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American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Mark H. Ebell	Predicting Short-term Risk of Stroke After TIA Because guidelines do not mandate hospitalization for patients who have had a transient ischemic attack, validated clinical prediction rules may be used to identify patients who should definitely be hospitalized for expedited evaluation and patients for whom outpatient evaluation is a reasonable option.
Managed Care July 2007	Headlines On Deadline... Paying hospitals extra money does not appear to improve the way they treat heart attack patients... In the coming months, patients at Mount Sinai Medical Center and nine other New York City hospitals will receive... etc.
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Nursing Management September 2011 Sally Austin	What does EMTALA mean for you? When a patient enters your hospital, do you know what your obligations are under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act?
Managed Care March 2005	'This Country Cannot Continue With the System We Now Have' As a vice president of Pfizer Health Solutions, a major disease management company, John Sory knows how difficult it is to bring systematic care to the chronically ill. He discusses Pfizer's work with Florida's Medicaid program.
BusinessWeek October 15, 2007 Jay Greene	Microsoft Wants Your Health Records Microsoft's new service will store your data in one place - and search ads could make it pay.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2011 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Potential Billion-Dollar Problem Abbott's Humira forms antibodies in nearly a quarter of patients.
Fast Company Elizabeth Segran	Doctor Visits Are So 2014 For scrappy startups, going up against the health care system sometimes seems like an impossible task. But fortunately, major players in the industry, such as McKesson, are pushing for change as well
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CIO December 15, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Data Sharing That Benefits Customers At Children's Hospital Boston, sharing more data, securely, promises healthier, more satisfied patients.
Managed Care May 2006	Patients Want Better Quality so Long as They Don't Have to Pay for it While about half of adults believe that there are fair and reliable ways to assess health care quality, only 19 percent think it would be justifiable for patients to pay more when treated by medical groups or hospitals that provide better care.
Managed Care June 2003 Maureen Glabman	Managed Care Makes It Tough For Some Hospitals To Stay Afloat True, there are other reasons the facilities have closed, but insurers' payment rates stand out. Is it better that some are history?
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