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Nurses and nurse managers employed in physicians offices have begun receiving salary increases even as most other clinical and administrative support staff have seen their pay stagnate or decline, according to a recent survey by communications consulting firm UBM Medica US.
Most electronic health records require providers to concentrate on typing text into specific fields – and many physicians and nurses feel that it mars the patient experience. That’s why a number of companies are helping increase EHR adoption by providing easy-to-use alternatives to keyboard data entry.
For years, the compelling argument for telemedicine has been that it allows patients to access doctors at any time and from any place. Now doctors are finding that they can use telemedicine platforms to improve – and in some cases expand – their practice.
In its Spring 2012 Economic Outlook report, Premier healthcare alliance reported that impending reimbursement reductions and uncertainty around the potential impact of health reform will likely lead to more conservative hospital capital budget expenditures for the year.
People in CDHPs may not have easy access to cost, quality data
A recent study by RAND researchers published in the journal Health Affairs indicates that consumer-directed health plans could save $57 billion annually if they grew to comprise 50 percent of all employer-sponsored health insurance in the U.S. But are health plans delivering the kind of information people using these plans need to truly direct their own healthcare decisions?
A new analysis released in the May issue of Health Affairs attempts to change the direction of the contentious debate around a perceived bias by the committee that advises the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the relative value of physician services.
Health insurer Florida Blue has teamed up with Miami-area providers Baptist Health South Florida and American Medical Specialties (AMS) to launch an accountable care organization (ACO) that will focus only on oncology treatment.
It may not occur to smaller senior living companies to seek a credit rating from a credit rating agency like Fitch Ratings, Standard & Poor’s or Moody’s, but for companies large and small, there are financial benefits said a group of panelists during an online senior living business conference held in March.
Online rating sites have become increasingly popular as consumers surf the web to find reviews of hotels, restaurants, electronics and almost everything else.
A new psychiatric demonstration project administered by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation seeks to test if changing a 47-year-old Medicaid exclusion can lead to better care and lower costs.