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Patient Privacy Rights appointed Adrian Gropper, MD as its first chief technology officer. Gropper is an expert in the regulated medical device field, an experienced medical informatics executive, and he has a long record of contributing to the development of state and national health information standards, according to a PPR news release.
During the month of April, the healthcare industry continued to add jobs, gaining 19,000 new positions, according to the new employment data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
West Virginia is the latest state deciding to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, opening the state-federal insurance program to an additional 91,500 low-income residents, while also expanding managed care.
Collaborations between primary care and behavioral health providers are not new but the leaders of two such organizations believe their newly formed joint venture is a winning formula.
Healthcare costs in Vermont grew by a modest 1.5 percent in 2011 -- a positive sign, say members of the Green Mountain Care Board, but not cause for celebration, especially considering other recent findings of hospital cost-shifting from public-payers to commercial health plans.
As insurance exchanges, subsidies for low-income earners and a raft of health and insurance regulations get underway, the U.S. could learn from similar reforms and programs enacted in Switzerland and the Netherlands -- even as those countries still have problems to sort out, a Health Affairs study suggests.
A dominating theme in healthcare today is collaboration and partnership across all sectors of the industry in order to create a continuum of care. For the continuum of care to happen, partnerships must be struck between healthcare entities that haven't necessarily worked much together in the past. An early April webinar addressed how such partnerships can be successfully formed.
The Center for Technology and Aging has launched an online mHealth Toolkit that officials say offers key resources to organizations that want to develop a best-in-class mHealth program for chronic disease management.
In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine's largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. The health system's leadership has determined $15 million needs to be saved to breakeven by year's end.
Critically ill Medicare patients, who are battling for stable health at the end of life, are victims of repeated hospitalizations, especially after being discharged to a skilled nursing facility (SNF). The cycle of hospitalizations is an indicator of poor care coordination and discharge planning -- causing the patient to get sicker after every "bounce back" to the hospital.