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- Hands Off Healthcare! Sales Are Up!
- The U.S. Healthcare system is the most successful industry in the entire world. Other industries worldwide view it as THE ROLE MODEL for how to build a strong and vibrant business. Under the circumstances, it is insane to even contemplate the idea of "reform." Here's a perfect...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
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- Helping government find its rightful place in the reform movement: this month, Lefton examines three regulation-related strategies for reforming the U.S. healthcare system. See Lefton's June column for the complete list of 14 strategies he believes will b
- In these last weeks before the Nov. 4 election, Senators McCain and Obama will undoubtedly be debating what needs to be done to fix the U.S. healthcare system. Despite what each candidate has to say, many citizens will interpret their remarks through party lenses: A Republican president will...
- Research articles 2008-10-01
- Democrats and Senator Clinton Gaining Public Trust in Their Ability to Improve U.S. Healthcare System
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Jennifer Cummings of Harris Interactive, +1-585-214- 7720; or Christine Mohan of Dow Jones & Company, +1-212-416-2114 ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the field of announced presidential candidates is established, the Democrats are gaining ground with the U.S. public as the party they trust to improve...
- Research articles 2007-03-26
- U.S. Grants $1.2 Billion for Electronic Health Records
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday announced grants of almost $1.2 billion to help hospitals and healthcare providers implement and use electronic health records. The Obama administration has made the overhaul of the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system the centerpiece of its domestic agenda, including the use of...
- News items 2009-08-20
- HMO unveils electronic claim system: Aetna U.S. Healthcare aiming to speed up turnaround.
- NEW YORK - Aetna U.S. Healthcare is introducing a new electronic claims filing system that it says will speed up payments to physicians and reduce paperwork and annoying errors for employees. Called E-Pay, the new system began operations in northern NeNEW YORK - Aetna U.S. Healthcare is...
- Research articles 1998-06-22
- California Healthcare Institute Launches Podcast to Raise Awareness of Dangers of a Cost-based U.S. Healthcare System
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Molly Ingraham of California Healthcare Institute, +1- 858-551-6677, ingraham@chi.orgSAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As state and federalpolicymakers search for ways to reduce healthcare costs, the CaliforniaHealthcare Institute CHI launched the first episode of a new podcast seriestoday at the 25th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference to...
- Research articles 2007-01-10
- Healthcare 2015 and U.S. health plans: New roles, new competencies
- The U.S. healthcare system is on an unsustainable path that will force its transformation. Health plan providers must help shape and lead the healthcare transformation or risk being marginalized. Read "Healthcare 2015 and U.S. health plans: New roles, new competencies" to learn about these challenges as well as IBM's recommendations...
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Five Reasons WellPoint's $10M Healthcare Competition Won't Work
- So now the health-insurance provider WellPoint has put up $10 million for a new X Prize -- one that promises the money to anyone who can figure out a new way to fix the healthcare system. The X Prize Foundation is the same organization that created similar prize competitions in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Can You Fight Healthcare Waste?
- Most everyone agrees that the U.S. healthcare system is tremendously wasteful, but few people appreciate just how much of that inefficiency is baked into the business models of health plans and hospitals alike. No matter how conscientious the management of any individual company, efforts to cut costs and improve service...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Healthcare: A Sales Success Story
- What in the world is Congress thinking? Have they gone out of their minds? These "reformers" keep complaining about the U.S. healthcare system as if it were broken. It's not. The U.S. healthcare industry is in fabulous shape and is performing exactly as it was designed to perform.  It's a...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Are Hospitals Grabbing a Bigger Share of the Healthcare Pie?
- The U.S. healthcare system is sometimes best thought of as a three-way tug-of-war between payers private insurers and the feds, providers hospitals and doctors and suppliers (drug and medical-device makers). No, patients don't really figure into this analogy -- at best, they're trussed up in the middle somewhere. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Quality healthcare reform needs financial managers - Vantage Point - Column
- The current U.S. healthcare system does not meet the needs and expectations of its customers at a cost that they perceive to be of value. The system fails the HFMA definition of quality. Many healthcare consumers are unhappy with the U.S. healthcare system. According to a Harvard University and...
- Research articles 1992-01-01
- As Hospitals Hit the Skids, Odds of a Healthcare Crisis Rise
- It's not just big insurers who are sinking into the swamp these days -- hospitals are slipping as well. And while it's a little early to know for sure, the problems of health plans seem quite likely to make those of hospitals even worse. Yesterday, Tenet Healthcare...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- California Healthcare Institute Launches Second Podcast Episode on Dangers of a Cost-based U.S. Healthcare System
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Molly Ingraham of California Healthcare Institute, +1- 858-551-6677, ingraham@chi.org LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As state and federal policymakers search for ways to reduce healthcare costs, the California Healthcare Institute CHI launched the second episode of a podcast series, Cost Over Care: The Dangers of...
- Research articles 2007-01-24
- Catholic Healthcare West Convenes National Experts for Healthcare Leadership Summit
- Catholic Healthcare West CHW, the eighth largest healthcare system in the nation and the largest not-for-profit hospital provider in California, is tomorrow convening two-dozen leaders in business, academia, healthcare, labor, religion, and research for a think-tank style, invitation-only discussion designed to generate new ideas for reforming the U.S. healthcare system....
- Research articles 2008-02-12
- Healthcare Roundup: Hospitals Regain Ground, Govt. Pumps Up Health IT, Gainsharing On a Roll, and More
- Green Shoots For Hospitals? â€" A Thomson Reuters survey of 500 hospitals showed that only a third operated in the red during the first quarter of this year, compared with 50 percent last fall. One reason is that their median labor cost fell 3 percent. Last year, median revenue per...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Shareholders to Weigh In On Universal Healthcare
- The question of whether and how to reform the U.S. healthcare system has opened on a new front -- shareholder activism. Over the past several months, the SEC has told several major corporations that they must allow shareholder votes on proposals that would commit the companies to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Healthcare Roundup: No HLTH-WebMD Merger, Higher Medicaid Spending, Mental-Health Parity, and More
- HLTH, WebMD call off merger -- HLTH, a holding company that currently owns 84 percent of the publicly traded WebMD, pulled the plug on a proposed merger with that subsidiary. The companies cited financial-market uncertainty and difficulty finding a buyer for a second HLTH unit, Porex, which makes plastic products...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- WSJ.com/Harris Interactive Survey Finds that Senator Hillary Clinton Most Trusted on Healthcare Policy Issues, but Trust is Declining
- ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Among frontrunner candidates for the 2008 presidential election, Senator Hillary Clinton is both the most and least trusted by U.S. adults to come up with good policies for improving and reforming the U.S. healthcare system. Four in ten adults (38%) say they trust her, but one-third (32%)...
- Research articles 2007-10-04
- More Signs the Healthcare-Reform Freight Train Is Gathering Steam
- Political momentum for a major overhaul of the dysfunctional $2 trillion U.S. healthcare system isn't limited to recently released congressional white papers, it turns out. Check out today's portents that suggest President-elect Barack Obama will make an early and significant push to enact sweeping healthcare reforms: Obama's...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
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