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Back in 1996 when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law there were approximately 20 million internet users, AOL was the most visited site and the average amount of time spent on line was about 2 hours a month. Today there are over 245 million internet users, no one talks [...]  Last week I received an interesting call from a recruiter seeking to fill a Midwest hospital position in Clinical Informatics. Though personally uninterested in relocating, I spent some time discussing the position just to see what hospitals are looking for in candidates. Little surprised me in regard to experience or technical knowledge, still there was [...] Being exceptionally fond of statistics, and even more so, aware of their limitations, I’m often delighted with when those limitations are discovered. In this article by the Journal of the American Medical Association on Risk Prediction Models for Hospital Readmission the authors looked at a large group of studies and tested for their predictive statistical significance [...] In a startling find, a study from the RAND corporation found that higher deductables result in lower consumption of healthcare services. “Studying more than 800,000 families from across the United States, researchers found that when people shifted into health insurance plans with deductibles of at least $1,000 per person, their health spending dropped an average [...] I’ve come across comments on various nursing websites highlighting difficulties for new grads finding jobs and thought some economic perspective might be helpful. First, the demand for RN’s will continue to grow at an average 2.2% per year, with supply of RN’s short of demand through 2018. Given that the mean age of all nurses [...] |
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