hospital bankruptcies

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One in Three Hospitals Headed for Bankruptcy

Robert Weisman | Boston Globe | September 8, 2012

As they brace for an era of shrinking government funds and mounting pressure to cut prices for medical services, Massachusetts hospitals face growing financial strains...Many of these hospitals are grappling with financial losses or declining profits at a time when they are having to invest heavily in new electronic medical records and other information systems as well as new clinical programs to enable coordinated care... Read More »

Surveys point to struggles in adoption of EHRs

Jeff Rowe | Government Health IT | June 25, 2012

Surveys are intended in part to give researchers a snapshot understanding of what is going on in a given part of society, or any single topic. Sometimes, though, it seems more productive to consider more than one survey at once in the name of getting at potentially broader implications.

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