UN News & World Report has released its annual ranking of the nation’s best hospitals, categorizing them into sixteen groups with an additional Honor Roll of medical centers with high marks in more than six fields.
Unsurprisingly, Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore is ranked first, with Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), Ronald Reagan UCLA (Los Angeles), [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on July 16th, 2009 @ 5:11 pm
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An article in Time points to a pilot healthcare program called Prometheus that seeks to cut costs by putting doctors on a budget. Set to launch in January of 2010, the radical model will be used to calculate insurance coverage for 80,000 workers in Rockford, Illinois, attempting to reverse the existing incentive-based system that drives [...]
Filed under: Business, Healthcare, News on July 7th, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.