Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to K Hallam.
Tighten your belt and hold onto your wallet: Another year of change looms for healthcare. In a 1999 outlook report, our staff tells all about Medicare cutbacks, managed-care turbulence and a looming crisis in skilled nursing. And everyone is braced for the appearance of that ugly year-2000 computer bug.
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How people are treated when they need medical care depends on where in the world they are. In deciding which tools of the medical trade are used to treat disease and when they're used, location is paramount. A country's social policy, healthcare payment systems and cultural factors bear heavily on the utilization of medical technology. The cover story kicks off the magazine's third international healthcare section.
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It can cut costs, improve care and even create a bond between caregivers and patients. In other words, a little risk management can go a long way. That's the experience of the winners in the annual risk-management awards. This year's winners are the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, and Phoenix-based Arizona Physicians IPA. Two other organizations won honorable mentions.
A federal whistleblower lawsuit unsealed last week alleges widespread Medicare fraud at two of the nation's largest for-profit hospital companies, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. and Quorum Health Group--both relatives of Hospital Corporation of America. The case shows how hospitals' legal troubles have spread since the advent of Medicare's prospective payment system in 1984.
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Modern Healthcare honors this year's "Up & Comers," 11 young healthcare executives all 40 or under who already have made their mark in the healthcare industry. "As remarkable as their achievements are today, the potential for what they may do tomorrow is staggering," says Jordan Hadelman, whose firm, Witt/Kieffer Ford, Hadelman & Lloyd, was involved in the nominating process.
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