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		<title>Hospital faces penalty for denying sign language interpreter to patient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its failure to provide sign language interpreters for a deaf patient and his hard of hearing family members will cost one hospital. A patient filed an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) complaint against Henry Ford Health System for failing to provide sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids and services for him and some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Best TV Medical Dramas of All Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cellular research, complex surgeries, and life-saving emergency treatments make medicine a fascinating topic not only for those that work directly in the industry, but for those on the outside as well. Perhaps that is why televised medical dramas have been successfully capturing the hearts and minds of people around the globe for so many years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End-of-life care: What patients expect isn&#8217;t what they get</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few patients talk to their doctors about end-of-life care options &#8212; but they want to. That&#8217;s just one of many disparities in how patients want to handle their care. That&#8217;s the takeaway of a new survey of patient attitudes toward end-of-life care. The survey, released by the California HealthCare Foundation, polled nearly 1700 patients in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic transplant operation saves child’s life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An historic six-organ transplant saved the life of a mortally ill nine-year-old girl.  The record-setting procedure took place at Children&#8217;s Hospital of Boston (CHB). It&#8217;s not only one of the largest multi-organ transplants ever done, it&#8217;s the first esophageal transplant in the world. Nine-year-old Alannah Shevenell of Hollis, Maine, was first diagnosed with a rare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Office Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The medical software market is very large (1,000+ vendors) and complex. Vendors have customized applications for just about every provider designation (MD, DO, OD, DC, PT, PhD, LSCW, etc.) and type of provider organization, including outpatient, inpatient, and home health care. Years of development and company consolidation have led to a daunting market. We have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient ratings can predict hospitals&#8217; performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study indicates that patients&#8217; online ratings of hospitals correlate to how well hospitals perform on measures of infection and death rates. Popular opinion is that patients inflate &#8212; for good or bad &#8212; their experiences with doctors and hospitals when using online review sites. But a new study in the Archives of Internal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking and Reporting Health Care Professional Spend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New state and federal laws are creating unprecedented challenges to pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers operating in the United States. In many cases, standard expense management solutions are not flexible enough to ensure compliance. Companies operating within the healthcare industry must begin to strategically look at their expense management system and adopt new tools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital offers apology, but still no kidney, after transplant was denied</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia has released a statement apologizing to the family of a three-year old on whom it refused to perform a kidney transplant. The apology is in response to the media firestorm that erupted after the Rivera family went public with a blog post claiming the hospital denied their daughter because she has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthexecnews.com/hospital-offers-apology-but-still-no-kidney-after-transplant-was-denied</link>
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		<title>East vs. West Medicine [Infographic]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main concern for healthcare executives and care providers all over the world has always been the quality of patient care, and that is still true today. Depending on location, however, the methods used to provide that quality care can vary quite a bit. While the methods of Western medicine concentrate on a scientific and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress reaches deal on Medicare payments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news &#8212; but not great news: Congress has reached a deal that cancels the planned steep cut to physician&#8217;s payments. It&#8217;s not official yet, but the House and Senate have reached a compromise agreement. The bill is expected to be voted on before President&#8217;s Day. A nearly 28% cut to physicians&#8217; Medicare payments was [...]]]></description>
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