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Hospital Associations Leverage Data For More Transparency In Healthcare

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Announced last week, Focus on Hospitals is a consumer-centered website that uses data to inform Missourians of hospital costs, quality, and community health data throughout the state. Many of those not participating are from the Kansas City metro area, where some hospital systems have facilities in both Missouri and in neighboring Kansas.

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The Future of the Furnace: What’s Holding Up More Efficient Gas Heat?

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The technology to improve heating might be cheaper in the long term, but it comes with a high upfront costs, two key industry groups say. “Because heating needs vary across the nation, what is cost effective in Massachusetts may not be cost effective in Mississippi; the reverse is true for cooling,” the U.S.