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Understanding board’s role in hospital–physician relations
The American Hospital Association's Center for Healthcare Governance invites hospital executives, board members, clinical leaders and others to view a three-part webinar to help health systems continually…
Relationships between health systems and physicians have undergone significant change in recent years as the health care field transforms into a value-based system of quality, patient satisfaction and cost effectiveness. As health care organizations seek the clinical integration necessary to…
Michael Rowan, president and COO at CHI, describes how the large health system relies on partnerships to improve its operations, including in its health insurance and risk management. Rowan spoke with H&HN's Marty Stempniak at the 17th Annual Not-for-Profit Health Care Investor…
“I do not remember any of my political manoeuvres, the success of which gave me at the time more pleasure ...”
— Benjamin Franklin, on his role in founding the first hospital in the American colonies
In May 1751, Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin created…
Century Club Growing
Number of Americans 100 years old and older:
1980: 15,000
2000: 50,281
Developing health care delivery and payment models to achieve the Triple Aim will be challenging.
Changes in care delivery may include new partnerships among payers, providers, government and the community and across the continuum; greater use of technology to empower clinicians and patients…
Is there a more intimidating phrase out there today than Big Data? It sounds like some sort of bully. Oh-oh, avert your eyes, Big Data is swaggering this way.
Patients are morphing into health consumers, shaped by paying first dollar for health care services. At the same time, people have become multichannel omnivores of information and entertainment, enabled by mobile platforms and Wi-Fi networks available where they live, work and play. They’re…
Cancer Forecast
1,685,210 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. this year.
595,690 people are expected to die in the U.S. this year.
On April 16, President Barack Obama signed into law the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.