{"title":"'Our goal is to have zero serious safety events. If it's not zero, it's not acceptable'.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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. Stokes was also named to Modern Healthcare's inaugural list of Top 25 COOs in Healthcare (p. 14). Modern Healthcare Southern Bureau Chief Dave Barkholz recently spoke with Stokes about his mission. The following is an edited transcript.</p>","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 19","pages":"30-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36664854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Providers' AHCA worries rise after latest CBO analysis.","authors":"Mara Lee, Matthew Weinstock","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Congressional Budget Office estimated that 23 million people would lose health coverage by 2026 under the American Health Care Act.</p>","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 22","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36710570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More than 800,000 docs get pass on MACRA compliance, for now.","authors":"Virgil Dickson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>CMS notified physicians that they won't have to comply with Merit-based Incentive Payment System reporting requirements in 2017.</p>","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 20","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36732701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Willing to take the hits' for speaking out against the GOP repeal bill.","authors":"Harris Meyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Robert Doherty, the long-time chief lobbyist of the American College of Physicians, has drawn attention for his outspoken criticism of the House Republican legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Doherty is senior vice president for government affairs at the Philadelphia-based ACP, which represents 148,000 internists and internal medical subspecialists. He spoke with Modern Healthcare senior reporter Harris Meyer on May 4, minutes after the House passed the American Health Care Act, or AHCA. He described his organization's objections to the House bill and its plans to lobby the Senate to preserve the ACA's insurance coverage expansions. The following is an edited transcript.</p>","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 20","pages":"32-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36732709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospital mega-mergers hit fast and furious in 1Q.","authors":"Dave Barkholz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The need for scale and space is accelerating tie-ups between hospital giants.</p>","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 18","pages":"20-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36765405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GOP senators likely to pass ACA repeal bill because failure is not an option.","authors":"Harris Meyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The challenge for Senate Republicans is to make their bill less politically toxic than the House version, but that will require tough calls on taxes and spending.</p>","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 20","pages":"22-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36732705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The phony war on high drug prices.","authors":"Merrill Goozner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Witness how the pharnaceutical industry has succeeded in taking advantage of President Donald Trump's failure to do something-anything-about high drug prices.</p>","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 18","pages":"24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36765403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The long and winding road to patient data, interoperablility.","authors":"Rachel Z Arndt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>True interoperability remains just out of reach, as data stay trapped in documents.</p>","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 18","pages":"16-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36765404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decreasing pediatric antibiotic use through collaboration.","authors":"Maria Castellucci","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 21","pages":"28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36765606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vanderbilt is a case study for the dreaded EHR conversion.","authors":"Dave Barkholz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 19","pages":"10-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36664849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}