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		<title>Can Texting Improve the Patient Experience?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest blog by: Brandon Daniell, principal, Matua Media
The other day I had to catch a 6 a.m. flight out of Chicago. I booked a cab for 4:15 a.m. I was staying in a friendly part of Chicago, but I admit I did wonder how friendly it would be on the curb at 4:15 a.m. waiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community vs Tenet – Dayenu already.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Aileen Katcher
Last night was the first night of Passover, and we had our traditional seder dinner with good friends.  Many of the guests were recovering or retired health care executives.  Somewhere between the second and third cups of wine, the conversation turned to the big health care story of the day in Nashville –the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvbprhealthcare.com/blog/community-vs-tenet-%e2%80%93-dayenu-already/</link>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Herd Cats&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Aileen Katcher
Last night I heard former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen at his best.  He, Jack Bovender, Jr., former chairman and CEO of HCA and Clayton McWhorter, chairman of Clayton Associates bantered with each other in a panel discussion moderated by former Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Harry Jacobson, MD, now chairman of MedCare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvbprhealthcare.com/blog/you-cant-herd-cats/</link>
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		<title>Look for Tennessee Docs to Prescribe Remedy for Lowering Healthcare Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Greg Bailey, APR
Saturday’s inauguration of Governor-elect Bill Haslam sets the stage for a renewed conversation on controlling healthcare costs in Tennessee.  With Tennessee Republicans holding the keys to the State Capitol and both House and Senate chambers, you can bet the hallways on Capitol Hill will be filled with white-coated physicians making a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvbprhealthcare.com/blog/look-for-tennessee-docs-to-prescribe-remedy-for-lowering-healthcare-costs/</link>
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		<title>Buzzwords  –  Do They REALLY Impress?</title>
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By Aileen Katcher, APR
We have all seen countless articles, blog posts and comments on new year’s resolutions, trends to watch in 2011 and predictions for 2011 this week.  It’s just that time of year.
But two blogs that caught my eye were a little different.  First, was 20 Business Buzzwords You Want to Kill. I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvbprhealthcare.com/blog/buzzwords-%e2%80%93-do-they-really-impress/</link>
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		<title>Similar Needs, Similar Opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the latest update from the Latin American Correspondents, including KVBPR’s Aileen Katcher, APR.  She is traveling to Argentina and Chile on behalf of the Nashville Health Care Council and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s International Trade Mission to South America.
There’s always a Nashville connection …
As he welcomed the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvbprhealthcare.com/blog/103/</link>
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		<title>What Brought Three SMU Law School Grads to the Nashville International Trade Mission?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the latest update from the Latin American Correspondents, including KVBPR’s Aileen Katcher, APR.  She is traveling to Argentina and Chile on behalf of the Nashville Health Care Council and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s International Trade Mission to South America.
At the Santiago Airport, three delegates on the Nashville Chamber of Commerce/Nashville Health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvbprhealthcare.com/blog/what-brought-three-smu-law-school-grads-to-the-nashville-international-trade-mission/</link>
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		<title>The Potential and &#8211; Maybe &#8211; the Need for U.S. Firms to Band Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the first of the updates from the Latin American Correspondents, including KVBPR&#8217;s Aileen Katcher, APR.  She is traveling to Argentina and Chile on behalf of the Nashville Health Care Council and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s International Trade Mission to South America.
What better way to start an international trade mission to South [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvbprhealthcare.com/blog/the-potential-and-maybe-the-need-for-u-s-firms-to-band-together/</link>
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		<title>We Are Chile!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DAY TWO — Here is the latest update from the Latin American Correspondents, including KVBPR’s Aileen Katcher, APR.  She is traveling to Argentina and Chile on behalf of the Nashville Health Care Council and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s International Trade Mission to South America.
 As we listened to speaker after speaker talk about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvbprhealthcare.com/blog/we-are-chile/</link>
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		<title>Give peas a chance if you carrot all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Shannon Haslam
The Wall Street Journal health blog had an interesting post yesterday about food manufacturers’ attempts to make fruits and vegetables more kid-friendly. Their approach? Package carrots like Doritos. While I whole-heartedly agree that character endorsements sell products, I don’t agree that characters influence anyone to eat foods they dislike. Let’s get honest: Shrek-shaped [...]]]></description>
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