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HHS aims to make hospital administration rules more lax. The Obama administration has some ideas for cutting red tape in hospital administration. They involve making it easier for physician assistants and advanced practice nurse practitioners — rather than higher-paid physicians — to care for patients, allowing some hospital patients to take certain drugs without immediate supervision, removing regulations that call for a multihopsital system to have separate governing bodies, and adjusting Medicare and Medicaid rules that haven’t been touched in decades.
Opened for public comment on Tuesday by the HHS, the plan aims to save $1.1 billion a year and improve hospitals’ delivery of healthcare.
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
The U.S. startup’s legacy. What the U.S. be like without Silicon Valley, Boston, and the numerous other hot-spots for venture capital? Richard Florida looks at the power of creative, fearless entrepreneurs in an examination of how startups have changed the way American businesses think.
Online diabetes monitoring system approved. The FDA has cleared ARL Technologies’ web-based Health-e-Connect System, which enables doctors to monitor diabetic patients online.
Slow IT implementation. Health IT measures under U.S. healthcare reform law have the potential to improve care, but uneven implementation of is hindering real improvement, says a new report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Although the U.S. has improved in some areas, like the reporting of data on federal websites, it has failed to keep pace with other countries, the report says.
Don’t wait on HCSM. A new whitepaper from Computer Sciences Corporation recommends healthcare providers avoid the “wait-and-see” mentality with social media and instead start small, using one platform a couple times per week, and implementing a social media policy.
