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The author stresses the need for the mass media organization to understand the facts first before reporting news, identifying and analyzing trends, and explaining what it all means for readers.

The article reports on the annual update of the star ratings issued by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for hospitals, which focus on key areas such as patient safety, experience and outcomes.

The concept seems solid and simple enough. Hook up those in need of media with those who have some to sell, and make it convenient, and paperless, via the Internet. [...]

Using parts from a beat-up VW dune buggy, Gary Starr built his first electric car during college in 1974 when he got tired of standing in gas lines. The experiment [...]

How do you turn around a chewing gum that kept its flavor but fell out of favor? Find the right button to push with its core chewers, namely kids between [...]

There's a whole new demographic group sporting shopping bags on Chicago's Magnificent Mile these days as pre-teen girls are seen carrying merchandise and memories from American Girl Place. In 1999, [...]

Sixteen months after ABC's first public dabbling in enhanced television, at least 125,000 viewers of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are playing along at home, simultaneously watching television and [...]

The times of Shreveport, La., became the first newspaper to standardize readership data in 1998 to help media buyers and advertisers compare markets. Today, the Gannett Co. publication still feels [...]

Title: Executive vice president of video services at ReplayTV, a 3-year-old Mountain View, Calif., company whose service allows customers to automatically record and customize television programming and store it on [...]

For most people, the upcoming event in Sydney will be called the XXVII Olympiad. The team at NBC uses a different phrase: the complete Olympics. The Peacock Network, which paid [...]

Rob Burgess isn't one to mince words when he starts talking about television. 'I think a lot of television really sucks right now,' he says. 'Saturday mornings are so routine [...]

Title: President of Global Media Corp., Vancouver, which provides revenue-generating, integrated electronic commerce and streaming solutions to radio broadcasters, television stations, retailers and niche marketers. Global has signed more than [...]

Title: CEO of Into Networks, a 4-year-old, Cambridge, Mass.-based company that is rolling out PlayNow, a software-on-demand service that allows broadband subscribers to access and rent more than 100 software [...]

A controversial change in minority ownership guidelines opens the way for ethnic agencies to cut more lucrative deals by selling larger stakes in their companies. But most general-market agencies said [...]

Title: Vice president of network programming and products for Communities.com, a Cupertino, Calif.-based company that seeks to build the first real-time, interactive-rich media network. It has partnered with content providers [...]

The company: Bikini.com The bosses: Gail Sonnenschein is president. Howard Sonnenschein is vice president and executive producer -- and brother of the president. Goal: To take their Web site, which [...]

Christopher Daly doesn't like the image of his company as another brash dot-com shelling out big bucks to attract attention. But that's just what Metrosplash.com is doing at this year's [...]

SmartMoney, taking a page from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's playbook, has formed a multimedia relationship with T.D. Waterhouse that will become a template for advertising pitches to other companies. The […]

Media companies regard Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia as the guiding light for how to turn brands into multiple platforms for consumers with specific interests and advertisers who want better ways […]

The article reports on the decline in the number of physicians who work in private practice or have an ownership share in one in 2022, according to a biennial survey conducted by the American Medical Association. Topics include a large percentage of physicians who owned a private practice during the early 1980s, some of the reasons for the decline such as the increasing hospitals and payers that are acquiring physician groups to advance their strategies, and the impact of the trend on patients.

The article discusses the highlights of a healthcare industry conference on topics including transformation of healthcare organizations and patient with the adoption of digital health strategies and deployment of technologies, environmental, social and governance, and artificial intelligence (AI).

The article talks about the challenges facing healthcare graduates of 2023 and the advice that Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, gave to help them prepare for future hurdles.

The author comments on the convenience problem in healthcare in the U.S. Topics discussed include highlights of the Modern Healthcare's Digital Health Transformation Summit, how successfully executing convenience could foster patient loyalty, and percentage of satisfied patients who are less likely to switch providers, according to McKinsey survey.

The article reports on the ending of the public health emergency in May 2023 which marks an inflection point in many industries.

In the article, the author examines the feasibility of the plan by the Kaiser Foundation Hospital and Geisenger Health to form the nonprofit Risant Health, which will purchase up to six community hospital systems in the U.S.

The author comments on the rationale of hospital buyers who acquire a facility, only to decide years later that it was not a good investment.

The author emphasizes the need for strong ideas from visionaries to address the challenges facing the healthcare industry. She cites the contribution of Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925, who offered maternal and infant care to remote counties in Kentucky. She mentions the need for advocates to improve patient care like Sister Carol Keehan, Dr. Herbert Pardes and Dr. Philip Lee, named to the magazine's Health Care Hall of Fame.

The author offers his views on the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic several years after the lockdown, as of 2023. Topics covered include the changes in healthcare, the disagreements with the mask mandates and vaccines and the elevation of the treatment options such as telehealth. It also cites the move of organizations, companies and community groups to address disparities in healthcare.

The article discusses how health inequity is being addressed in the U.S., as of March 2023. Topics covered include the efforts made to tackle the problem of uneven access to affordable, high-quality care, the economic cost of health disparities and Kara Hartnett's report on areas of the U.S. where social vulnerability is the highest and access to healthcare is the poorest.

The article reports on redevelopment plan in Detroit, Michigan unveiled by Henry Ford Health, Michigan State University and Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores that will include a hospital, a medical research facility and commercial and residential space. Topics discussed include how the project came about, according to Henry Ford President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Robert Riney, and partnership between Michigan State and Henry Ford.

The article provides an overview of the Co-worker Observation Reporting System, a type of peer review program launched by Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and its potential use to curb bad behavior by nurses and improve patient care quality.