Healthcare Data Digest, June 21, 2013 Healthcare Data Digest
June 21, 2013 Volume III Issue 25


Welcome to this week's Healthcare Data Digest. In case you missed any of this week's headlines in our Twitter news feed, you can view them now:

  1. Up to 50 Percent of Medications Are Not Taken as Prescribed

  2. Study Finds Hospital Performance Variations Related to Ownership, Size, Teaching Status

  3. Infographic: The Role of Medicaid and Medicare in Women’s Healthcare

  4. Telephone Counseling Plus Physician Advice Key to Motivating Breast Cancer Survivors to Exercise

  5. New Table: High-Risk Patient Roster in Atrius Health Geriatric Care Model

  6. Companies Pay Almost $6,000 Extra Per Year for Employees Who Smoke

  7. Hearing Loss in Elderly Tied to More Hospitalizations and Poorer Physical, Mental Health

  8. Patient Handovers, Recorded Discharge Instructions Key to Improved Care Transitions

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