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Healthcare drives state economy with 554K jobs
The birthplace of the automotive industry and the epicenter of American manufacturing for decades has a new economic driver: healthcare. A report by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association
Michigan hospitals adopting no-smoker hiring policies
Michigan appears to be the latest state where several hospitals and health systems have just adopted policies in which they will only hire non-smokers and non-tobacco users--citing their need to live
Despite heavy increases, only 12 percent of prescriptions are electronic
Electronic prescribing continues to grow at an impressive rate, but still only accounted for 12 percent of the 1.63 billion prescriptions written nationwide in 2009, according to the latest
HHS awards final Beacon Community grants
HHS officials today awarded $30 million in grants to organizations in the Detroit and Cincinnati areas by naming the final two pilot communities in the $250 million Beacon Community Program. HHS
States grapple with severe Medicaid cuts
Despite the potential for states to receive increased federal support for their Medicaid programs in 2014 , in the short term, at least two states--Michigan and Tennessee--expect things to get worse
Available local IT talent lets Mich. Blues keep jobs at home
Score one for America. Also, score one for jobs-starved Detroit. And leave it to health IT to be the catalyst for hiring. When Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan looked to cut costs, it determined it
Payment terminals help practices cut bad debt
It's perhaps a sad statement on American healthcare that this is even news, but it's still a somewhat rare phenomenon for physician practices to ask patients for credit cards before providing
Small Michigan hospital installs big wireless infrastructure
A top-notch wireless infrastructure is no longer the exclusive domain of large, urban hospitals. In Ludington, Mich., 87-bed Memorial Medical Center has just completed a total replacement of its data
Stimulus won't cause major strategic changes for MI hospital
If you've already installed an EMR, or are well on your way, there's probably no need to panic about the "meaningful use" requirements of the federal EMR incentive program that starts in 2011.
Kansas City, Detroit firms jockey for stimulus money
In case anyone was doubting this scenario, mobile and wireless IT vendors are--get this--positioning themselves to capture some of the federal stimulus money. Yeah, we were shocked, too. Once the
