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Hospital performance continues to show wide variation
June 10, 2013An Analytical Approach to Improving Physician Performance
In an exclusive analysis for Modern Healthcare, Truven Health Analytics—using its 100 Top Hospitals data—spotlights gaps and strengths in hospital performance related to the organizations' ownership structure. Not-for-profit hospitals—especially church-owned not-for-profits—performed better than their for-profit and government-owned peers on metrics of patient safety, mortality and patient satisfaction. FULL STORY - Maureen McKinney
The Physician Executive Journal of Medical Management
May/June 2013An Analytical Approach to Improving Physician Performance
In this article examine strategies used to gauge physician performance variability and learn how to develop ways to engage physicians.
Health Affairs
November 5, 2012Modifiable Health Risks Drive Up Employer Costs
Employers who have not yet adopted programs that encourage workers to reduce their health risks for obesity, heart
disease, stroke, psychosocial problems and other preventable and modifiable health conditions may experience
health care cost increases of more than $887 per employee per year over employers who have such worksite programs
in place.
TIME, Healthland
October 16, 2012Least Healthy Employees? Hospital Workers
A new study from Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare business of Thomson
Reuters, reports hospital employees are less healthy than the general workforce and cost more in healthcare
spending.
The New York Times
September 28, 2012Inside the Mind of Worry
In a 2011 Thomson Reuters/NPR poll, nearly one parent in three with a child under 18 was worried about
vaccines, and roughly one American in four was concerned about the value and safety of vaccines in general.
In the same poll, roughly one out of every five college-educated respondents worried that childhood
vaccination was connected with autism; 7 percent said they feared a link with Type 1 diabetes.
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