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The healthcare industry has been notoriously slow at identifying methods and tools it needs to reduce costs and improve quality noted a report by healthcare investment firm the Psilos Group, but health reform is producing promising opportunities for investors to fuel needed innovations.
The Premier healthcare alliance, which includes 2,800 hospitals and 93,000 other provider and payer organizations across the country, has partnered with Phytel to automate population health services in order to help its members scale their efforts to improve patient care and adapt to a rapidly changing healthcare system.
Bundled care is touted frequently these days as one of the best ways in healthcare to save money, right reimbursement wrongs and heighten the quality of care. While the model is still being debated within the industry, a recent report indicates that consumers like it.
Health insurer Priority Health has announced it has contracted with Healthcare Blue Book to publish cost and quality information for more than 300 procedures by facility and physician for its insurance members in Michigan.
Hospitals make more of a profit when surgical patients develop complications finds a new study published Wednesday in JAMA.
A recent survey indicates that federal IT officials think big data analytics will save money and spare patients' lives.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates that healthcare fraud costs are approximately $80 billion annually. To prevent some of the billions from being siphoned from the healthcare system, many organizations are turning toward analytics.
After rejecting the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, Florida Republican lawmakers have proposed what they call a market-based program for covering the uninsured that's entirely state-funded, prompting criticism from Democrats, progressive advocates and even the Republican governor, Rick Scott.
U.S. employers are expected to increasingly shift toward self-funding their group health insurance plans as a result of the health reform law, according to a survey of health insurance executives released Monday by Munich Health North America, a subsidiary of Munich Re.
A recent study published in Health Affairs showed evidence that when a physician group's quality measures are publicly reported, they are more motivated to improve upon their overall care quality.