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Presto Chango - UPMC Tries to Make its Employees All Disappear
This story is just in time for Halloween. The Lawsuit Challenging the Non-Profit Status of UPMC Back in March, 2013, we discussed a lawsui...
Should We Cry for Non-Profit Hospital System CEOs Paid Less than For-Profit CEOs?
Two recent articles ( here and here ) in Modern Healthcare providing an update on the compensation of CEOs of non-profit hospital systems r...
Monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement
More on monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement: 1. Layoffs to balance the budget... http://www.news-record.com...
The Push Back Continues: the Mayor of Pittsburgh Sues UPMC Claiming it is No "Public Charity"
There is another indication that push back against the power of large health care organizations is getting more significant. In February, 20...
When "Human Error" Causes EHR Downtime, Who is Liable For Patient Injuries That Result?
In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was this story of yet another EHR " glitch ": March 9, 2013 12:17 am Human error the cause of UPM...
The Pittsburgh Experiment - II - Another Echo of the Fall of AHERF
We recently started a series of posts about the battle for domination of health care in western Pennsylvania. The contenders are the UPMC ...
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The Pittsburgh Experiment - I - Caught in the Crossfire
In our increasingly dysfunctional health care system, patients, health care professionals and the public are often caught in the crossfire b...
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IT Malpractice? Yet Another "Glitch" Affecting Thousands of Patients. Of Course, As Always, Patient Care Was "Not Compromised."
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
