MX.com Brief - Healthcare News | July 26, 2012

Industry Spotlight:

Five Substantial Benefits of a Successful Post-Acute Strategy

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has fundamentally changed the healthcare marketplace and permanently altered the role of post-acute programs in the strategic response of health systems. This is a challenge for many hospital systems as they have under invested in management talent and the infrastructure of their post-acute capabilities. As payment models evolve and providers become more accountable for patient’s costs, care will be driven to the lowest cost settings. A hospital’s post-acute capabilities could be an engine that drives profitability or the burden that causes missed opportunity...more

Around the Roundtable

Heart Attacks Ambushing Women?

According to Dr. Aristotelis Vlahos, the medical director of interventional cardiology at Riverview Medical Center in New Jersey, "Fifty percent of heart attacks are entirely silent, a number that's even higher in women and diabetics." But why is it higher with women? Women often do not take the range of heart attack symptoms seriously (upset stomach, shoulder pain, toothache, flu-like symptoms, hand tingling, fatigue) or they attribute them to other, more common ailments...more

MX & The California HealthCare Foundation Team Up

MX is collaborating with the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) to find best practices or “better ideas” to improve the care of patients with chronic illnesses.



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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, affecting people of all ages and backgrounds. And according to the American Heart Association, coronary heart disease alone was projected to cost the United States $108.9 Billion in 2010. With these statistics in mind, MX has partnered with HeartCaring to provide you with access to free Cardiac Health Improvement Toolkits...more

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