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Enhancing hospital IT's speed-to-market capability

Healthcare It News

Take the case of Mount Alvernia Hospital, a 300-bed private not-for-profit medical institution in Singapore.

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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Dana-Farber, Beth Israel Deaconess collaborating on standalone cancer center

Fierce Healthcare

Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) announced plans to build an independent, freestanding cancer hospital—a first-in-the-region move with rami | The collaboration will yield the Boston area's only free-standing adult cancer hospital.

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Prime Healthcare buys 5 hospital facilities from Medical Properties Trust for $350M

Fierce Healthcare

For-profit system Prime Healthcare has bought the real estate of five hospitals it runs from healthcare Medical Properties Trust for $350 million, the real estate firm announced Tuesday. |

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Half of hospitals spend just 1.4% of expenses on charity care, KFF finds

Health Care Dive

At 8% of hospitals, it made up 0.1% The new analysis found wide variations in charity care. or less of operating expenses.

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Korea to link health records of 8 million patients to MyHealthway

Healthcare It News

The South Korean government seeks to streamline access to the personal health records of over eight million patients held in tertiary general hospitals in a single platform by next year. WHAT IT'S ABOUT My Healthway allows Koreans to view their medical records in a standardised format from various hospitals.

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