Click here to read the article from Health News Florida. As if you didn’t have enough reasons to suspect some health insurers of being greedy, here’s another.

Less Is More! – Dermatology.

Hopkins to acquire Fla. children’s hospital.

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via 15 Free Healthcare Apps for the iPhone – FierceHealthcare.

Health News Florida.

WellCare whistle-blower talks about his corporate double life – St. Petersburg Times.

Amusing and edgy spots that get the point across – this hospital ad campaign doesn’t go for the typical warm fuzzy shot of smiling staff and patients against pale hospital walls, or the “look at our shiny new equipment!” take, either. How refreshing.

Here's a fun take on the day-to-day routine of providing hospital care — and how it can get just a bit impersonal and dehumanizing. (Though not, one assumes, at Warrenton, VA-based Fauquier Hospital, which created the ads you're about to see.) In the first spot, "Baby Factory," unfortunate moms-to-be are rolled through an industrial assembly line, each given the same perfunctory treatment. (One nurse chants "Ice chips…ice chips…," and hands … Read More

via The nextHospital Manifesto