Kaiser Permanente: George Halvorson, Chairman & CEO
Posted 165 days ago

The roots of Kaiser Permanente date back to the depression era when a pre-payment system for hospital services was developed for workers on the aqueduct project in the Mojave Desert,…

Kaiser Permanente: George Halvorson, Chairman & CEO
Baptist Health Care: Al Stubblefield, President & CEO
Posted 165 days ago

Finding Baptist Health Care in Northwest Florida is an easy task given the system's role in Pensacola and the surrounding communities. Baptist Health Care's commitment to the community that supports…

Baptist Health Care: Al Stubblefield, President & CEO
Sandoz, Inc.: Don DeGolyer, President
Posted 165 days ago

Sandoz, Inc., is a global generic-pharmaceutical company and the number-two player in the global -generic industry. For the past several years, it has also been one of the fastest-growing companies…

Sandoz, Inc.:  Don DeGolyer, President
The George Washington University Hospital: Kimberly Russo, Chief Operating Officer
Posted 165 days ago

With a national reputation for quality and service and a range of patients that includes heads of state, The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., holds itself to extremely…

The George Washington University Hospital: Kimberly Russo, Chief Operating Officer
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: Steven M. Altschuler, CEO
Posted 165 days ago

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was founded in 1855 and holds the distinction of being the nation’s first pediatric hospital. Over 150 years later, it is still breaking ground…

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: Steven M. Altschuler, CEO
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Price Transparency Becoming More Vital for Hospitals (Part 2 of 2): The Local Unveiling

May 23, 2013
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Steve Sonenreich, chief executive of Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, scored several points for price-transparency advocates when he “made a public pledge Monday to divulge the contractual rates the hospital charges private insurers for diagnoses and treatments,” Daniel Chang reports for The Miami Herald. Sonenreich’ announcement comes “in the wake of last week’s [...]

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Price Transparency Becoming More Vital for Hospitals (Part 1 of 2): The Federal Reveal

May 23, 2013
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With the federal government releasing its chargemaster list last week, the pressure is on for hospitals to embrace price transparency, Cheryl Clark of HealthLeaders Media reports. However, there are those hospital executives who are placing little weight on the list, which gives the prices for 100 types of hospital care, because they believe it has [...]

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Telemedicine Continues to Transform Healthcare (Part 2 of 2): Care in a Kiosk

May 21, 2013
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We’ve all seen kiosks in our local malls and shopping arenas. They’re used by businesses to sell basically anything, from food to novelty items to cosmetic products.  But what if they could be used for something more than pure capitalism? What if they could be used to improve the healthcare of a nation? This is [...]

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Telemedicine Continues to Transform Healthcare (Part 1 of 2): Pharmaceutical Retail’s Next Frontier

May 21, 2013
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A frequent topic that comes up in HCE interviews with healthcare executives, especially in relation to technology investments, is telemedicine. According to the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), over half of U.S. hospital networks have instituted a telemedicine program of some kind, Doug Desjardins writes in the May 2013 issue of Medicine on the Net. By [...]

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Smartphones, Paving the Way for Healthcare’s Future (Part 2 of 2): A Generational Shift

May 20, 2013
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A TEDMED conference recently held in Washington D.C. was attended by roughly 300 healthcare professionals and policy wonks, Lauran Neergaard, a medical writer for the Associated Press, reports. During the conference, attendees were given a “smartphone physical” that employed 10 medical devices newly released by the tech industry. Many of these were approved for sale [...]

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Smartphones, Paving the Way for Healthcare’s Future (Part 1 of 2): The Plug-In Physical

May 20, 2013
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With Star Trek Into Darkness blowing up the box office this past weekend, it seems only appropriate that we delve into some Trek-inspired technology–the smartphone–and its impact on healthcare. Lauran Neergaard, a medical writer for the Associated Press, reports, “…By hooking a variety of gadgets onto a smartphone you could almost get a complete physical [...]

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Using Care Guides Could Improve Patient Experience

May 17, 2013
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Healthcare reform is bringing about many new and potentially revolutionary concepts that are designed to improve the quality of the patient experience. One of these concepts is gradually capturing the attention of the nation’s healthcare leaders, Maura Lerner of the Star Tribune reports. According to Lerner, care guides, an idea pioneered by Minnesota-based Allina Health, [...]

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Moody’s Testing New Value-Based Indicators for Hospitals

May 16, 2013
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In the new era of value-based healthcare, what indicators are going to be used to evaluate hospitals, especially since value is less quantifiable than volume? According to John Commins at HealthLeaders Media, Moody’s Investor Service is experimenting with 20 new indicators for rating hospitals. Moody’s believes these indicators will “focus on value and measuring demand [...]

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Wayne County Hospital: Daren L. Relph, PS/CCP, Chief Executive Officer

May 14, 2013
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Rural hospitals across the country are working to become more efficient, meet their financial obligations, and evaluate service lines to ensure they are providing the most necessary care to their patients. Uncertainty about the effects of reform still looms, as details of changes to critical-access status or other reimbursement issues are not yet clear. But [...]

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The University of Kansas Cancer Center: Dr. Roy Jensen, Director

May 13, 2013
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It’s an exciting time to be involved in cancer care and research, and the University of Kansas Cancer Center is positioning itself to be a leader in research and treatment. After a nearly decade-long effort, the Cancer Center became a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated center in July 2012. The designation signifies a commitment to excellence [...]

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