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During the second month of 2013, the healthcare industry continued its long trend of adding jobs, gaining 32,000, according to the employment numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday morning.
During the Thursday morning keynote at HIMSS13, the national coordinator for health IT, Farzad Mostashari, MD focused on the nation's broken healthcare system, while delving into a range of topics.
Healthcare was by far the feistiest part of Thursday's HIMSS13 closing session featuring Karl Rove and James Carville.
A report issued this week by the Government Accountability Office reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services overpaid the Medicare Advantage program run by private health insurers by between $3.2 billion and $5.1 billion for the years 2010-2012.
Twitter users among the immense crowds at former President Bill Clinton's keynote speech at the 2013 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition shared many salient quotes. Here's a recap of some of the action.
Former President Bill Clinton's talk Wednesday at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition encompassed politics, economics, history, climate change, childhood obesity, health information technology, and even the art of the deal.
While many companies across the country are seeing positive results and cost savings through their workplace wellness programs, a new study from Health Affairs suggests that the savings employers may strive for with these programs may more likely come from cost shifting to the most vulnerable employees rather than employees' improved health.
Tom Sullivan, editor of Healthcare Finance News' sister publication Government Health IT spoke with national health IT coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, about sequestration and the sustainability of Regional Extension Centers and more a day before his keynote at HIMSS13.
The charts said it all -- high levels of quality improvement coupled with significant savings as Hawai'i Pacific Health changed the way it provided care and started tracking gains on both the clinical side and the financial side.
Concerns over young buyer "sticker shock" and adverse selection associated with new 3:1 age rating rules have been largely overblown, according to an Urban Institute study finding that premium subsidies will offset increases for many young insurance consumers.