- Program Temporarily Boosts Light Activities in COPD Patients
- HHS Offers New Incentives for Accountable Care Organizations
- AHRQ’s Innovations Exchange Highlights Health Promotion in Underserved Women
- New Primer on Systems Approach to Patient Safety Released by AHRQ
- Online Tools Helps Physicians Reduce Avoidable Hospital Readmissions
- Physicians Must Take Time to Show Patients Compassion
- Patients are Unlikely to Spend Out of Pocket For Hearing Aids
- Sharing the Cost of Blood Test with Physicians Can Trim Spending
- 30 Years In We Are Still Learning From AIDS
- HHS Review of Rules Could Benefit Hospitals and other Providers
- Aging Baby Boomers Fuel Growth of Flying ICUs
- Sedentary Jobs Contribute to Obesity in Workers
- Johns Hopkins Institute Focus Will be Elimination of Errors
- Five States Top AHRQ’s Quality Improvement List for 2010
- CDC Says Almost 1.2 million in the United States have HIV/AIDS
- Even with Outpatient Mental Health Care, Children Seek Help at the Emergency Departme
- Outcomes Differ in Accountable Care Pilot Programs
- Medicare Plan for Payments Irks Hospitals
- One-Fourth of Seniors Have Exhausted Personal Savings
- California Shifts Seniors, Disabled into Managed Care
- Not Following Heart Failure Guidelines Cost Lives
- Experience Is Critical in Joint Replacment Surgery Outcomes
- Hospitals Embrace iPads To Boost Patient Care
- Doctors Blaming Nurses: A Time Honored Tradition
- Game Changer- Introducing the Medical Home
- Hospitals Gain Access to Advanced Tools to Cut Re-admissions
- New Tools from Care Contiuum Alliance
- Motivational Interviewing Training Seminar
- IOM Calls for Focus on Patient Centered Care
- Social Factors Account for Many Deaths in the US.
- Family Members are Unprepared to Be Caregivers
- Nurses are central in move to Accountable Care
- Health Reform Helps Seniors Remain at Home
- HHS Uses Multimedia Approach to Promote Free Medicare Services
- New Scoring Tool Predicts Patient Medication Noncompliance
- Explaining Sunscreen and the New Rules
- New Graphic Images of Smokers: Will They Get People to Stop Smoking?
- Patient Voices: Firsthand Accounts of Disease States
- Man Robs Bank to get Medical Care
- Women Health Update: New Guidelines for Women regarding Pap Tests
- IOM issues report that targets obesity in infants, toddlers
- Study: Most diabetes patients off meds after weight-loss surgery
- Diabetes survey finds few follow through on lifestyle changes
- Adults in the United States consumer more meals and calories
- Nurse leaders promote the value of higher education
- Implementing Accountable Care Organizations
- ACOs will drive demand for case managers
- Don Berwick offers ACO Pep Talk
- The Things That Make Us Different
- Sweet Treat: July Is National Ice Cream Month
- Connection, Collaboration Key for Device Consumers, IBM Study Finds
- In the Stroke Belt, Memory Loss May Be More Worrisome
- Colorectal Cancer Deaths Declining, But Millions Don’t Get Screened
- Report Calls for Better Understanding of Heart Disease in Women
- Don’t Let Age Alone Determine Frequency of Mammograms
- Home Technology Evolves To Help Seniors Age in Place
- First Study of Its Kind Shows Benefits of Providing Medical Insurance to Poor
- How can we get the average patient to take charge of their health?
- Bending the Cost Curve in Helathcare
- Why Google Really Failed; It's About the Money
- Assistance for Dual Eligibles
- Maine becomes first state to allow "captives" in health insurance
- Medco looks to increase adherence for hep C patients
- Weekend hospital staffing key to better care
- A Guide to Health Exchanges
- Guide for infection prevention in outpatient settings: Minimum expectations of safe c
- Don Berwick on The National Blueprint for Great Healthcare
- 4 ways to reinforce collaboration through body language
- Medical Loss Ratio
- Researchers: Falls in hospitals may not be preventable
- Survey: Patients prefer "hospitals" to "medical centers"
- Could Twitter make America healthier?
- Better access to primary care curbs Medicaid spending
- Adults Eat More Calories When Sleep Deprived
- Older Adults Must Work Harder to Maintain Muscle Mass
- Food Choices Important to Maintain a Healthy Weight
- 53% of U.S. Women Are Stressed
- Weight, Heavy Exercise Linked to Joint Replacement Risk
- Patient-Centered Medical Homes Work
- Clinical Transformation key to Improving Value
- Survey tracks who's using Internet for health information
- Care at the End of Life: What the U.S. Can Learn from England
- Social Security announce the addition of 12 new conditions to the Compassionate Allow
- Bowing To Pressure, McDonald's Makes Happy Meals More Healthful
- Blockbuster-drug prices to drop as patents expire
- AHRQ has debuted a "Catalogue of Federal PCMH Activities"
- Why hospital social media is a full-time job
- Americans are among the world's most depressed
- New App to Facilitate Access to Healthcare Resources
- Health workforce can't keep up with growing demand for care
- Have you tried Google +?
- CMS Struggles to Reduce Improper Medicare Payments
- Hospital-Comparison Site Adds More Quality Data
- Growing Diabetes Incidence in Seniors
- Consumers Would Pay More for Better Customer Service
- Medicare Part D Boosts Health, Curbs Medical Bills for Seniors
- Report: U.S. Drug Spending to Rise
- Cultural Competence
- Cms launches tools and initiatives to help improve american health care quality
- Lucy Turns 100
- Patients' perceptions don't always reflect quality of hospital care
- Foreign nurse bill goes to Senate
- Buiding a Better America
- Breaking news
- States receive grants to establish insurance exchange
- ADA develops behavior assessment tool for diabetes patients
- Family medicine is where most care will occur
- Study ties sleep apnea to cognitive impairment, dementia
- Senior Boom Creates Demand for Home Health Workers
- Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture
- More Patients Get Free Medicare Services Since January
- Nurses Are Key Players in Distance Caregiving
- Study Ties Sleep Apnea to Cognitive Impairment, Dementia
- A Nurse, a Patient and a Television
- Nurse leaders integrate business with medical practice
- The Toll of Job Loss on Health Insurance Coverage
- Why the push for higher education is tough for nurse leaders
- HHS examines patient assessment, standards in LTC settings
- New STD guideline advocates "expedited partner therapy"
- Unemployment takes toll on Americans' health
- A new IBM Quick Study Shares Data about how employees are managing their benefits
- 4 Ways to Use Social Networking to Find a Job
- Medicaid to Quit Paying for Preventable Events
- It's the Leadership Stupid
- Medicaid to Quit Paying for Preventable Events
- For Many Seniors, There May Be No Retirement
- Housing Bust Derails Some Seniors' Assisted Living Care
- Boomers Will Be Spending Billions to Counter Aging
- In Soda Revival, Fizzy Taste Bubbles Up From The Past
- Grant Achatz: The Chef Who Couldn't Taste
- For Disabled, Cuts Could Affect Lifelong Improvement
- How to Measure and Assess Presenteeism in the Workplace
- Patient-centered medical homes gaining ground
- For Medicare, Looming Federal Cuts Could Cause Eligibility Revisions
- Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It's Unlikely
- The Art of Asking Questions
- Does Dyslexia Translate to Business Success?
- 6 mental traits shared by successful entrepreneurs
- Put Ethics First, then Customers and Profits
- Research backs efficacy of Weight Watchers diet
- Nursing educator recounts caring for the victims of 9/11
- HHS unveils $700M grant to upgrade health care
- HHS awards Affordable Care Act funds to improve quality of care and electronic report
- Chronic disease costs may jump to $47T in 20 years
- Study finds more cases of prescription drug poisoning in children
- Bring Your Team and SAVE
- September issue of Case In Point Focus on Medical Home
- Census Raises Question of the Future of Employer-Provided Insurance
- The Specifics: How Obama Plans To Cut Health Programs By $320 Billion
- Obama Debt Plan Includes Cuts To Medicare, Medicaid
- Willpower
- The Facts About The HPV Vaccine
- Berwick: IT plays key role in improved quality
- How Obama Plans To Cut Health Programs By $320 Billion
- President Obama proposes Budget Cuts
- AHRQ Initiative Encourages Better Two-way Communication between Clinicians and Patie
- New data: Affordable Care Act helps one million additional young adults get health in
- States Cut Malpractice Payouts by Encouraging Doctors to Apologize
- Many provider systems remain uncertain about ACOs' effects
- Formula for target heart rates is developed for women
- Groups preparing for ICD-10 transition grows to 85%,
- Addressing barriers can bring more minorities to clinical trials
- CDC releases draft guidance on organ transplant safety
- Analyzing The GOP Presidential Field's Promise To Repeal The Health Law
- Capsules: In Pennsylvania, It May Really Pay To Be On Medicaid
- CLASS Act, LTCI Program Gets Shelved
- Senators Press Bella for Faster Action on Streamlining Care of "Duals"
- New Study: U.S. Last Among Wealthy Nations in Preventable Deaths
- When It Comes To Pain Relief, One Size Doesn't Fit All
- Set Your Own Standards for Personal Success
- Amputation rates for U.S. diabetes patients vary greatly
- Health care providers prepare for federal ACO program
- Feds to spend $9M to help companies improve wellness plans
- Nurses step up their careers with doctorates
- Wondering How Your Case Load Compares to That of Other Case Managers?
- Future of Nursing campaign selects 21 new state coalitions
- CDC reports more sports-related brain injuries among children
- CMS touts enrollment increase in EHR incentive programs
- CDC: Drunken driving is down significantly since 2006
- Senators call for stronger measures against Medicare Part D abuse
- CMS proposes PBM "transparency" rule
- IOM Recommends Criteria and Methods to Develop Essential Health Benefits Package
- Case Management Week
- Catastrophic Injury
- Nurse whistle-blowers can face emotional problems
- Visit Care Giver Village and Earn Continuing Education Credits
- 6 traits of successful innovation leaders
- Opportunities to share expertise
- HHS awards $82M for nurses and nursing students
- Medicare Open Enrollement
- CMS releases list of top-rated Medicare Advantage plans
- Dashboard tool allows real-time hospital infection surveillance
- Counterfeit drug and device market booms
- CDC: Heart disease rates in the U.S. decline
- HHS announces new incentives for providers to work together through Accountable Care
- Report suggests ways to manage suicide risk in primary care
- HHS sees cost savings in loosening of some Medicare rules
- Supreme Court could take up health care law by March
- HHS issues final rule on ACOs
- Innovations in Healthcare
- The non-negotiator's guide to getting what you want
- Foundation leader: Future of Nursing demands teamwork
- Hispanics Had Greatest Fertility Decline in Recession
- Birthrate lower on Halloween, higher on Valentine's Day
- HHS awards $82M for nurses and nursing students
- Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion
- Losing Weight: A Battle Against Fat And Biology
- Groups issue guidelines for preventing heart disease
- Survey: 45% of Americans unsure how to meet long-term care needs
- Governors issue executive orders to establish insurance exchanges
- "Unite to Fight the Flu" campaign calls on nurses to lead
- More nursing schools offer telehealth programs
- Children's Health Insurance Program extends to state workers
- Study: $6.8B in unnecessary spending for health care found in 2009
- DIY cervical cancer test could save thousands of lives
- Effective Health Care Program Update: ADHD Medications Not Linked to Serious Cardiac
- A new player in the Healthcare Mix: Walmart
- Keeping an Eye on Efforts to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
- Is Healthcare a Business or a Public Services
- USPSTF recommends skin cancer counseling for youths
- ACO rules highlight potential roles for nurses -- a must read for all
- Poll: Americans more likely to go without care due to costs
- Texas MD pleads guilty to retaliating against 2 nurses for reporting care abuse
- Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Challenging Health Care Overhaul Law
- Heart health corresponds with lower cancer risk
- 39 states have live Medicaid EHR incentive programs
- What is your Hospital's efficiency strategy?
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Don Berwick Steps Down from CMS
- Will tablets become as common as stethoscopes?
- Consumers warm up to data-sharing, but security concerns remain
- Health care groups plan for a post-election discussion of costs
- Weighing Berwick's Top Five Accomplishments At CMS
- Enrollment Still Growing In Medicare Advantage Plans, GAO Says
- CMS Observers Say Tavenner Will Bring Changes In Style Not Substance
- How will Health Exchanges Work
- My ER Doctor Is Billing Me For What Insurance Didn't Pay, What Can I Do?
- Chronic condition awareness higher in primary care than ED care
- Supreme Court announces schedule for briefs on health care law
- First iPhone glucose meter lands FDA clearance
- HHS to ease restrictions on Medicare claims data
- Number of young RNs is growing, according to U.S. study
- CDC proposes new guidelines for organ donation
- Report highlights survival of world's smallest babies
- FDA alerts public about treatments with similar names
- Restrictions to ICU visitation should be reduced, nurses say
- Fewer U.S. women receiving reproductive care, study finds
- HIPAA 5010 deadline looms
- U.S. government invests in telemedicine development
- House Republicans put off CLASS Act repeal until 2012