Diabetes program starts Friday at Essentia's Brainerd clinic
\n(Brainerd Daily Dispatch © 02/03/2012)
Diabetes program starts Friday at Essentia?s Brainerd clinic\r\n\r\n?I CAN prevent Diabetes Program? begins Friday, a partnership of the Minnesota Department of Health and Essentia Health Diabetes Resource Program for the Lakes Area ");
document.write("community. \r\n\r\nThe Essentia Health Diabetes Resource Program offers a 16-week lifestyle medication program called ?I CAN prevent Diabetes? in partnership with the Minnesot...\n
Our View: Health cost a bigger issue than charity care
\n(Mankato Free Press © 02/03/2012)
— \n It’s a sign of hard times. But it’s also a ti");
document.write("me for drastic change.\n\n\n\n The cost of “uncompensated care” provided by Minnesota hospitals rose 27 percent in 2010, according to the Minnesota Hospital Association, with not-for-profit hospitals providing $226 million in charity care and $498 million in costs not covered by Medicaid reimbursements. Total costs of all u...\n
Fewer Minnesotans sick with t");
document.write("he flu this season
\n(Minnesota Public Radio © 02/03/2012)
St. Paul, Minn. —\n Minnesota is experiencing the mildest flu season it's had in recent years.\n \n \n \n\n\n\n New data from the Minnesota Department of Health Thursday show 52 people have been hospitalized for lab-co...\n
How academic medical researchers have joined the assembly line
\n(MinnPost © 02/03/2012)
University of Minnesota bioethics professor and journalist Dr. Carl Elliott (?White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine?) has begun a weekly online column for The Chronicle of Higher Education, one of the most interesting magazines being published these days.\n\n\nHis first contribution, which appeared Wednesday, takes on a dark");
document.write(" topic that many academic researchers in university ...\n
It's epic: Lakeview medical records go electronic
\n(Stillwater Gazette © 02/03/2012)
With Lakeview Hospital going live on Epic (electronic medical record system) Wednesday, and Stillwater Medical Group clinics expected to follow June 1, HealthPartners' entire family of organi");
document.write("zations will be on an electronic medical record (EMR).\n\n By sharing technology such as an EMR, there is one central source that all information providers need to care for patients (such as medical his...\n
Study: Hospitals Overpay for Devices
\n(The Wall Street Journal © 02/03/2012)
Some hospitals pay thousands of dollars mo");
document.write("re than others for big-ticket medical devices such as defibrillators and hip replacements, and a portion of the higher costs could be passed on to the federal Medicare program, a new government report says.\r\n\r\nAmong 31 hospitals surveyed by investigators for the Government Accountability Office, one paid $8,723 more than another for an identical model of a...\n