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Hoopla Wants To Be A Free Netflix For Library Users
Hoopla wants to make borrowing material from a library as convenient as streaming content on the web. The company, launching to the public today after several months in beta, offers patrons of participating libraries access to on-demand streaming movies and TV shows, as well as audiobooks and music that can be streamed or downloaded. Read More »
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Hoping to Help Curb Corruption in Morocco by Mapping It Online
Among other projects, Nesh-Nash conceived of and became part of the team that built Mamdawrinch, a just-launched site to map incidents of bribery in Morocco. Built with Transparency Maroc, the Moroccan chapter of Transparency International, the site tackles what Nesh-Nash says is an "endemic" problem in the North African country... The focus, says Nesh-Nash, is on the petty corruption that has become part of everyday life in Morocco.
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Hospital Antibiotic Use Can Put Patients At Risk, Study Says
Doctors in some hospitals prescribe up to three times as many antibiotics as doctors at other hospitals, putting patients at greater risk for deadly superbug infections, according to a federal study released Tuesday. Read More »
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Hospital builds open-source eRx module from VistA
Oroville (Calif.) Hospital plans to release as open source an electronic prescribing software module it developed to use with its open-source version of VistA, the Veterans Affairs Department's electronic health record system. Read More »
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Hospital CEO Pay Not Tied To Quality
The compensation of nonprofit hospital executives wasn't linked to processes of care, patient outcomes, or the charity care the facility provided, a retrospective observational study found. Read More »
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Hospital CEOs See Double-Digit Pay Hikes
Trimming medical costs is the latest mantra among hospital executives, government bureaucrats, insurers and benefit managers as they grapple for ways to contain U.S. health care spending. Read More »
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Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work
In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one of the company’s hospitals in Florida. In a follow-up interview, the nurse said a doctor at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, in the small coastal city of Fort Pierce, had been performing heart procedures on patients who did not need them, putting their lives at risk. Read More »
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Hospital Charges Bear Little Relationship To The Quality Of The Care, Study Says
It’s well known that the charges hospitals list for surgeries and other procedures bear little resemblance to the actual prices most patients pay. An analysis by Castlight Health, a company that helps employers and workers compare prices, has found that the charges also bear little relationship to the quality of the care. Read More »
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Hospital EHR Incentive Makes the Rich Richer
I’m sure there are plenty of cases where the EHR incentive money hastened EHR implementations that would have taken much longer. I know a number of hospitals that had EHR somewhere on their list of IT projects...I can’t help but see the irony of Obama having an EHR incentive program that makes the rich hospitals richer.
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Hospital Execs Fail To Measure Return On IT Investments
Hospitals do not adequately consider return on investment when measuring the success of electronic medical record systems, hospital executives said in a recent survey. Read More »
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Hospital Execs Forecast Higher IT Spending
Admissions will shift significantly from the inpatient to the outpatient setting in 2013 as providers transition to new care delivery models, says a Premier healthcare alliance survey. It also indicates that hospitals will make their biggest capital investments this year in information technology. Read More »
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Hospital Executives Can Lead Transparency Movement
Transparency of healthcare costs and outcomes rests on hospital leaders' shoulders.
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Hospital Health Information Exchange by the Numbers
Health information exchange technology is in use among hospitals across the country.
While advancing interoperability is the aim of several current federal health IT initiatives, health information exchange is already occurring. The mechanisms for exchanging health data exchange differ as to their output and usability, but they do bridge information gaps between healthcare providers...
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Hospital IT Spending Jumps High
Hospital executives have never been frivolous when it comes to investing in technology, but as reimbursements shrink, the need to carefully analyze each purchasing decision has never been more urgent. Read More »
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Hospital Medical Errors Now The Third Leading Cause Of Death In The U.S.
Medical errors leading to patient death are much higher than previously thought, and may be as high as 400,000 deaths a year, according to a new study in the Journal of Patient Safety. Read More »
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