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Athenahealth's More Disruption Please initiative may serve the company's bottom line, but it's heart is more subversive: to dismantle the healthcare system as it exists today. And the company is doing it one person at a time.
While Republican members of Congress have announced plans to once again use budget measures to attempt to defund key parts of health reform - including nearly $1 billion the Office of Management and Budget requested for CMS, which presumably would be used for the establishment and operation of state health insurance exchanges - their Republican counterparts who occupy state governors' mansions have begun to sing a different tune.
Across the country, hospitals and health systems are transitioning to accountable care organizations (ACOs). What does it take to do that?
Interview with Richard Baron, MD, President and CEO-elect, The American Board of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia
The rapid pace of change for hospitals and healthcare systems has been accelerating over the last several years.
My long-time self-paying patient opined that the end of fee-for-service payments was imminent. I lightheartedly asked her how physicians would be paid. Would they be housed in military barracks and given vouchers for necessaries?
Field testing of new models of healthcare delivery and payment often reveal unanticipated challenges and benefits in efforts to achieve targeted outcomes.
Maine Medical Center's Vice President of Development and former chair of the board of directors for the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), Susan Doliner, believes there's reason to be optimistic when it comes to the 2013 fundraising outlook for hospitals and healthcare systems.
While Connecticut's 2014-2015 budget has yet to be finalized, hospitals and healthcare systems in the state are claiming that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed cuts of more than $500 million in hospital funding over the next two years would be devastating.
With doctors across the country continually on pins and needles regarding their reimbursement rates, proponents of telemedicine and telehealth are telling doctors the technologies offer them a stable revenue stream and lifestyle options.