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A new HealthGrades report on patient safety and satisfaction rates in hospitals across the country finds that hospitals with the highest patient ratings for physician and nursing communications on average have had fewer problems with patient safety issues.
The state's political leaders appear to be striving for a status quo wherein a large number of citizens lack health insurance or the means to obtain it. Will that spark a shift among voters during the upcoming November elections?
Healthcare providers need health information exchange to be fully automated and easy to do in order to scale up sharing of patient data to improve care, according to Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health information tcchnology.
Letters sent last Friday to House Ways and Means Committee chairs Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Wally Herger (R-Calif.) from the American Medical Association (AMA) and Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) suggest a number of different payment approaches aimed at a long-term solution to the current Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR).
Healthcare providers who offer extended payment terms to help patients meet rapidly increasing financial liabilities are exposing their organizations to a series of complex consumer credit compliance obligations due to increased regulations by federal and state agencies.
President Obama's recent pronouncement in favor of same-sex marriage has no legal effect on employers' decisions on whether to offer benefits to workers' domestic partners, but some advocates believe it could reinforce a decade-long trend toward coverage.
Four-time cancer survivor and Center for Advancing Health president Jessie Gruman speaks about what patients want from their provider's social media strategy.
More than half of the people who have health insurance coverage through an individual insurance plan are enrolled in plans that won't meet minimum coverage requirements for plans sold in 2014 as defined by the Affordable Care Act, according to research supported by The Commonwealth Fund.
Healthcare organizations have been very focused over the last two to four years on rolling out their electronic health record strategy, which has been driven largely by the meaningful use incentives. Today, however, Integrated delivery networks (IDNs) are starting to recognize that their EHRs alone will not solve every problem -- especially care coordination issues between IDNs.
More than half of the people who have health insurance coverage through an individual insurance plan are enrolled in plans that won't meet minimum coverage requirements for plans sold in 2014 as defined by the Affordable Care Act, according to research supported by The Commonwealth Fund.