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If you find yourself struggling to hold on to your best employees, compensation is probably an issue.
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Calling to remind patients of their appointments, instructions on how to prepare the night before a procedure, or to see if patients have questions prior to surgery are important ways to keep your outpatient surgery or diagnostic testing departments' schedules on track.
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Data breaches cost health care organizations more than $6 billion annually, and 71% of the respondents to a study released by the Ponemon Institute say they do not have enough resources to prevent or to quickly detect a loss of patient data.
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Patient estimation software implemented in late 2009 at Tallahassee (FL) Memorial Hospital has "helped tremendously" with collections, says Joan S. Braveman, director of patient access and financial services. "In this past fiscal year, we increased our front-end cash collection by 40%," she says.
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This paper reports results from the resynchronization-Defibrillation for Ambulatory Heart Failure Trial (RAFT). This was a multicenter, double-blind, randomized trial testing the hypothesis that addition of resynchronization therapy (CRT) to an ICD, compared to an ICD only in patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II or class III symptoms, left ventricular systolic dysfunction, and a widened QRS complex would improve survival and reduce hospitalizations.
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The occurrence of skin rash in patients receiving cetuximab is common, and for patients with colon cancer, this has been associated with better clinical outcomes.
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Very limited data are available on autologous transplant outcomes for uncommon or rare multiple myeloma (MM) subtypes.
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With the development of an increased understanding of cellular biology, in general, and the regulation of eosinophils, in particular, the heterogeneous diagnosis of hypereosinophilic Syndrome (HES) has now been better defined and a classification system has been developed with clear clinical implications.