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A survey of small employers by eHealth, Inc. has found many struggling to understand their legal responsibilities and new choices under the Affordable Care Act.
When Premier healthcare alliance officials announced this week that their data-sharing collaborative saved 92,000 lives and $9.1 billion since 2008, the emphasis was on the data, but in a briefing Wednesday about the private sector's role in Medicare Susan DeVore, Premier president and CEO, explained that one of major drivers behind the collaborative's success was the culture change that took place among the healthcare providers.
A new report from the West Health Institute contends that improvements in the ability of medical devices and health IT systems to communicate and exchange data could lead to more than $30 billion a year in savings.
Today in the third of three hearings held by subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology reassured a congressional panel that health IT interoperability will take some dramatic leaps forward within the next two years.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed the state's health insurance exchange into law Wednesday after a legislative committee reconciled regulatory differences between a set of bills passed last week.
In a study published online Wednesday in JAMA Surgery, researchers calculated that during 2009, six technologically advanced and minimally-invasive surgical procedures contributed a cost savings and workplace value of more than $11 billion.
High numbers of merger and acquisition deals but lower volume in the senior housing and care industry is a trend that will continue in 2013, a panel of senior housing experts said during a webcast held in late February.
After several occasionally fractious public hearings on nonprofit tax exemptions, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is challenging the tax exempt status of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the largest healthcare provider and employer in western Pennsylvania.
According to a new research study published in the March issue of Health Affairs, hospice enrollment saves money for Medicare and improves care quality for Medicare beneficiaries with a number of different lengths of services.
A recent survey of physicians in the U.S. by consulting company Deloitte shows that most are worried that the future of the medical profession may be in jeopardy and that the overall performance of the healthcare system in this country is "suboptimal."