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Apps that find the least busy ER are on the wrong track
Alan Kelsky Medical & Allied HealthcareEmergency departments would do well to tell their potential patient population that smartphone apps featuring which neighborhood ER is the least busy are generally a waste of money.
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How to calculate your ideal patient load
Brooke Andrus Healthcare AdministrationAs a rehab therapy provider, the strength of your clinic's revenue stream depends mainly on the number of patients you see each day — and the dollar amount you receive for each one of those visits. Naturally, if you want to increase your clinic's revenue, you mostly likely will need to increase the volume of patients you treat.
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Text-to-911 availability has important mHealth implications
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationThe Federal Communications Commission has taken another step toward a 911 system that fits with how Americans are communicating. The new rules, adopted Aug. 8, will make Text-to-911 more uniformly available by the end of 2014; and this has important mHealth implications.
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An aging America: The future of healthcare depends on telehealth
Karen R. Thomas Healthcare AdministrationAs a country, we are living longer and in greater numbers. The number of people over the age of 65 in America is predicted to rise to nearly 80 million by 2040, according to the Administration on Aging. When that happens, there will be more people living in our country who are over the age of 65 than at any point before in history, a fact that has many wondering if the U.S. healthcare system will have the resources, systems and integration to care for such a substantial older adult population.
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Ebola: The current state of the outbreak
Joan Spitrey Medical & Allied HealthcareOn July 11, I shared an article about the Ebola outbreak that was reaching historic levels. At that point in time, the outbreak was contained to the West African countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea with 888 confirmed cases.
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New Medicaid program seeks to foster innovation
Maria Frisch Healthcare AdministrationThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced the Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program, a group of technical assistance tools. The aim of this program is to improve the health of Medicaid beneficiaries, thereby supporting the Triple Aim, and reducing overall costs for the Medicaid program.
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The Nurse Licensure Compact: Is expansion inevitable?
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareNurse licensure is an idiosyncratic beast, and many American nurses struggle with the fact that obtaining a license in another state can be a laborious process. Innumerable nurses are unaware of the fact that the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) has been in existence for years.
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Do hospital-run urgent care centers reduce ER use?
Alan Kelsky Healthcare AdministrationThe future of healthcare given by hospitals is changing. And that change is the opening of hospital-owned urgent care facilities. A 20 percent growth in urgent care centers is likely over the next five years, from about 10,000 currently to 12,000.
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Advances in treatment of epilepsy offer new options
Rosemary Sparacio Medical & Allied HealthcareApproximately 2.3 million adults and nearly 500,000 children in the U.S. currently live with some form of epilepsy, and the annual costs are estimated to be $15.5 billion. The good news is that recent advances in epilepsy treatment have given physicians and patients more options.
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Corporations 101: What you need to know about this standard business entity
David B. Mandell, JD, MBA, and Jason M. O'Dell, MS, CWM Healthcare AdministrationMany firm owners use a corporation as part of their corporate structure — either for the main business or for ancillary business units. In this article, we examine the basics of corporations, with a focus on their asset protection benefits and weaknesses.
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