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August 2012
New England Journal of Medicine: A Systemic Approach to Containing Health Care Spending
The following article, published August 1, 2012 in the New England Journal of Medicine by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., et al., examines the burgeoning cost [...]
Health Facilities Management: Gathering Resources to Launch Sustainability Initiatives
Health Facilities Management August 2012 By Greg May, CHESP While sustainability is no longer considered a new concept, it certainly remains an emerging growth sector, [...]
Infection Control Today: Suppliers' Role in Achieving a More Sustainable Healthcare System
Infection Control Today August 6, 2012 By Brian White, President of Stryker Sustainability Solutions As a healthcare professional, you are keenly aware of the need [...]
Healthcare Finance News: Healthcare Leaders Discuss Greening the Supply Chain, Lowering Costs
Healthcare Finance News July 25, 2012 | Kelsey Brimmer, Associate Editor WASHINGTON – During a White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) conversation on Tuesday, [...]
HUPdate (University of Pennsylvania): Reprocessing Initiatives Save $1 Million!
HUPdate (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania newsletter) June 27, 2012 by Greg Richter Thanks to reprocessing initiatives, HUP saved $1,257,302 last year and prevented 14,683 pounds [...]
Mass Device: Novation CEO Jody Hatcher: 'Ruthlessly focused' on driving hospital costs down
Mass Device by Brian Johnson July 25, 2012 Medical device companies should take heed of how Novation CEO Jody Hatcher sees the world. The 45-year-old CEO [...]
New York Times: Massachusetts Aims to Cut Growth of Its Health Costs
New York Times By ABBY GOODNOUGH Published: July 31, 2012 The Massachusetts legislature passed a first-in-the-nation bill on Tuesday that seeks to limit the growth of [...]
July 2012
Healthcare Design Magazine: Health Care Without Harm International
Healthcare Design Magazine June 20, 2012 by Janet Brown, EDAC, Contributing Editor Josh Karliner, international coordinator for Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), shared the organization’s perspective on [...]
MarketWatch: Practice Greenhealth and Sustainability Dashboard Tools Form Strategic Partnership
MarketWatch June 20, 2012 Press Release Practice Greenhealth, one of the nation's leading membership organizations for the health care community, and Sustainability Dashboard Tools, LLC, [...]
The White House Blog: Promoting Sustainable Health Care
The White House July 24, 2012 Posted by Gary Cohen, President, Health Care Without Harm Imagine energy efficient hospitals that save money on energy bills [...]
Policy and Medicine: The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA): Summary of GDUFA, MDUFA, BsUFA and Pediatrics
Policy and Medicine July 19, 2012 Posted by Thomas Sullivan The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), signed into law on July 9, [...]
U.S. News and World Report: U.S. News Ranks Best Hospitals 2012-13
US News and World Report July 16, 2012 By LAURA MCMULLEN Almost everyone needs a hospital sooner or later. When you do—whether for an aging parent, [...]
CNN: Take Another Look at Health Care Act
CNN July 19, 2012 By Aaron E. Carroll Unless you've been living under a rock, you know people are concerned about the deficit. Or at least [...]
Health Leaders Media: U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals List Shifts Methodology
Health Leaders Media July 17, 2012 Cheryl Clark Consumers, payers and providers have yet another tool to rank hospital quality with the updated edition of [...]
Policy and Medicine: Getting from Volume to Value in Healthcare
Policy and Medicine Posted by Thomas Sullivan on July 13, 2012 Forbes Insights recently released “Getting From Volume to Value in Health Care: Balancing Challenges & Opportunities,” [...]
Fierce Medical Devices: FDA Unveils Draft Guidance for Quick Feedback on Devices
Fierce Medical Devices July 13, 2012 | By Damian Garde In keeping with its pledge to work with devicemakers to speed up the approval process, the [...]
Healthcare Purchasing News: Sterile Processing a New Green Machine
Healthcare Purchasing News July 2012 by Julie E. Williamson It's no secret: while sterile processing departments play a critical role int he delivery of quality [...]
Modern Healthcare: Number of Medicare ACOs More Than Doubles
Modern Healthcare July 9, 2012 By Melanie Evans and Jessica Zigmond Medicare's accountable-care experiment, which seeks to revamp how hospitals and doctors get paid, more than doubled in [...]
redOrbit: Hospital Safety Ratings Released By Consumer Reports
redOrbit July 8, 2012 Billings Clinic in Montana is the safest hospital in the US, while Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago scored lowest, according to [...]
MD+DI: Massachusetts Eases Ban on Gifts from Medical Device Manufacturers
MD+DI July 9, 2012 By: Jamie Hartford Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick on Monday signed into law legislation that partially repeals the state’s pharmaceutical and medical device [...]