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The U.S. has a drug shortage — and people are dying
Medicinal drugs in the U.S. are in short supply. Some are so scarce — medicines for heart problems, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, Lyme disease, and tuberculosis as well as antibiotics and crucial saline...
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It’s not Obamacare that really has hospital execs worried
After the Republican landslide in the midterms earlier this month, pundits have been analyzing the future of Affordable Care Act (ACA), wondering if the GOP's pledge to repeal or replace elements of...
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Hospitals are learning how to share and it’s saving them millions
U.S. health care costs currently exceed 18% of the nation’s $16.8 trillion annual economic output–and are only continuing to grow. At the same time, hospitals are working harder than ever to find and...
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How to stop generic drug shortages: end hospital group purchasing kickbacks
For millions of patients suffering from unprecedented shortages and skyrocketing prices of vital generic drugs, President Obama's State of the Union address last week was a huge letdown. In laying out...
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This website is like a Yelp for hospitals
Using websites like Yelp, people can look up ratings and reviews for virtually any restaurant or bar. But what about hospitals, where the quality of treatment is far more important than checking...
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Insurance stocks are booming on the Obamacare decision
Among the big winners from the Supreme Court’s Thursday decision to uphold Obamacare subsidies? Insurers. Basically, the court just guaranteed that millions of customers would stay on with insurers,...
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20 best workplaces in health care
Growth in health care has been constant--and that means there’s been an ever-growing number of jobs opening up in the industry. Over the past 25 years, employment in health care boomed from 8.2 million...
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How this 150-year-old company uses virtual reality
As one of America's largest builders, McCarthy Building Companies has been designing and constructing hospitals, laboratories, and education facilities for over 150 years. And now the company is...
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Here’s one way Obamacare is backfiring
A key part of the efforts to reform health care and control medical costs may actually have the opposite effect, a new report says. Incentivized by the Affordable Care Act (the health care law also...
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HealthTap wants to provide hospitals with their own ‘operating system’
Telemedicine startup HealthTap has built what it calls an ‘operating system’ for hospitals to help them centrally manage everything from patient records to appointments and medication to lab test...
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Athenahealth Is Now Taking Over Big Hospitals
Athenahealth struck a new deal with University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) to bring its cloud-based medical records system into a major hospital for the first time, expanding its reach beyond the...
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This Healthcare Exec Says Diversity Is Critical for Boosting Patient Health
Ascension Health COO Patricia Maryland has a message for the hospital industry: improving minorities’ health will require more personalized engagement with patients and more diversity among medical...
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These Are the 11 Best Workplaces in Health Care
The health care industry has been growing rapidly, adding nearly half a million new employees in 2015 alone. The sector is now responsible for one in nine jobs in the U.S.--and its share is only going...
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Hackers Have Crippled Another Major Hospital Chain With a Cyberattack
Washington, D.C.-area hospital chain MedStar became the latest health care industry victim of a cyberattack Monday as hackers infiltrated its systems with a virus that crippled its IT infrastructure....
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Envision and AmSurg Are Set to Merge
Envision Healthcare evhc and AmSurg amsg have agreed to an all-stock merger that would create a health care service provider with a proforma market value of about $10 billion, the companies said on...
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Drug and Medical Device Companies Shelled Out $7.5 Billion to Docs and...
Drugmakers and medical device companies continued to dole out billions of dollars in payments to physicians and hospitals last year, according to new government data released last week. In fact, the...
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Predicting Your Medical Costs Is Almost Impossible. This New Tool Wants to...
American healthcare has a transparency problem. Gaming out the price of medical treatments is a near-impossible task for the average U.S. consumer. Costs are opaque and shift heavily from one...
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The Obama Administration Wants to Overhaul How We Pay for Heart Attack...
The Obama administration is seeking to shake up how the government pays for heart attack-related medical care in a bid to reduce health spending, officials announced Monday. Medicare, the federal...
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China Over-Reliant on Hospitals, Needs More Family Doctors
China’s healthcare system is overly reliant on large, over-burdened hospitals, which will struggle to cope with a spike in diseases linked to the fast-ageing population, the World Health Organization...
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Why WhatsApp Could Be A Game-Changer for American Health Care
When messaging service WhatsApp announced in April that it would adopt end-to-end encryption, it rankled law-enforcement agencies worldwide (Brazilian officials briefly shut down the Facebook-owned fb...
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