Modern Healthcare

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

As the national healthcare debate continues, what if instead of cutting Medicaid eligibility and capping spending, as the legislation approved by the House of Representatives would do, we were discussing innovations that would make the healthcare system more effective and affordable?

As with so much else, the Trump administration has stumbled in its initial efforts to combat opioid addiction. Given the magnitude of the crisis, healthcare professionals have an obligation to speak out against ill-considered policies.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

Charles Stokes, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System, recently began his term as chairman of the American College of Healthcare Executives. At the leadership society, Stokes will focus on providing educational tools and best practices that help the nation's healthcare organizations improve quality and accountability. He has a good personal track record. Two of Memorial Hermann's hospitals recently won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, presented every year to organizations that demonstrate excellence...

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to point out an uncomfortable truth. I encountered that bit of wisdom early in my career, running my first hospital in central Indiana in the mid-1990s.

Remember payment reform? Shared risk, bundled payments, global budgets-these baby steps are supposed to teach hospitals and physician practices how to stay on their feet financially while walking away from fee-for-service medicine.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.

The new Epic system is being tailored for Vanderbilt's needs, butitremains standard enough to receive frequent company upgrades, while allowing clinicians and researchers to use a modern software system that won't feel foreign if they have to work with others outside of Vanderbilt.

No abstract text is available yet for this article.