Healthcare Data Digest, September 23, 2011 Healthcare Data Digest
September 23, 2011 Volume 1 Issue 38


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. Is Alcohol Linked to Successful Aging in Women?

  2. More Subspecialty Pediatricians Entering Private Practices

  3. Costs Up Following Infection in Cardiac Device Patients

  4. New Table: 7 Care Coordination Challenges Met by an SNF Network

  5. U.S. Hospital Employees Less Healthy than General Workforce

  6. Lung Cancer Rates Decline Nationwide

  7. New Transitions of Care Credentials for Case Managers

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