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List: Healthgrades reveals America’s Best Hospitals for 2018

By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare Finance Healthgrades revealed the hospitals which have earned it’s America’s 50 and 100 Best Hospitals for 2018. The award winners represent the top 1 and 2 percent of hospitals in the country, and have demonstrated “superior clinical outcomes across the majority of common inpatient conditions and procedures,” the organization…

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1 in 5 health employees willing to sell confidential data: 7 survey insights

Written by Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review Nearly one in five healthcare employees would be willing to sell confidential data to unauthorized parties for as little as $500, according to a survey from Accenture. For the report title “Losing the Cyber Culture War in Healthcare,” Accenture surveyed 912 provider and payer organizations across…

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Apple is launching medical clinics to deliver the ‘world’s best health care experience’ to its employees

By Christina Farr for CNBC Apple is launching a group of health clinics called AC Wellness for its employees and their families this spring, according to several sources familiar with the company’s plans. The company quietly published a website, acwellness.com, with more details about its initiative and a careers page listing jobs including primary care doctor, exercise…

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16 healthcare companies named to ‘Fortune 100 Best Places to Work 2018’

By Alyssa Rege and Megan Knowles for Becker’s Hospital Review Fortune named 16 healthcare companies to its 21st annual list of the best companies to work for in the U.S. To compile the list, Fortune gathered feedback from over 315,000 employees across the country. To be considered, companies needed to have at least 1,000 employees…

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Fax machines are still common in medicine — and med students are puzzled when forced to use this ancient technology

Christina Farr for CNBC Amol Utrankar was in his second year of medical school and working a shift at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee, when a supervisor asked him to obtain a new patient’s medical records. Utrankar, who was 22 at the time, needed to get the records from a smaller community hospital, where…

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Google AI now can predict cardiovascular problems from retinal scans

By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News Google AI has made a breakthrough: successfully predicting cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks and strokes simply from images of the retina, with no blood draws or other tests necessary. This is a big step forward scientifically, Google AI officials said, because it is not imitating an existing…

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Healthgrades’ 250 top hospitals for clinical excellence

By Brian Zimmerman for Becker’s Hospital Review Healthgrades named the 250 recipients of its 2018 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence Jan. 23. Hospitals recognized with this award performed among the top 5 percent in the nation for at least 21 of 32 inpatient conditions and procedures analyzed by Healthgrades. “Consumers should prioritize hospitals and…

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HIMSS18 puts women front-and-center as conference keynotes, speakers

By Jessica Davis for Healthcare IT News Women innovators from CMS, NASA, IBM Global Healthcare, Cleveland Clinic and Health 2.0 — among a long list of others — will share insights from interoperability to patient engagement at the annual health IT conference in Las Vegas. This year’s CES Conference, one of the biggest technology conferences…

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Why Apple will succeed where other tech giants have failed: Helping people track their health info

By Steve Kraus for CNBC Apple made a big splash in health care circles this past week when it announced that the company is entering the personal health record space with Apple Health, a new feature that will interface with electronic health records at a dozen hospitals. For the past two years, Apple has been…

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