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Two panel discussions Monday at the American Telemedicine Association's conference in San Jose, Calif., tackled money issues. Healthcare providers are looking for a return on investment in telemedicine applications and venture capitalists are looking for a reason to invest in the growing industry.
Occupying a former medical offices building in Maine's largest city, Portland Community Health Center serves about 2,600 of the city's population of just over 66,000. Its patient population is largely on Medicaid and about 35 percent of them have no insurance at all. Half are refugees from countries such as Sudan and Somalia.
For service providers, including telephone companies, Internet and cable companies, cloud service providers, application and data storage providers, the healthcare market is heating up, according to experts at Cisco.
With the future of the health reform law in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, a majority of hospitals and health systems are anticipating a drop in revenue as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Not satisfied with having cut nearly half of the $6 billion allotted under the Affordable Care Act to help create health CO-OPs, the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week voted to defund the remaining $3.4 billion in the program.
Within a handful of miles of the birthplace of the American Revolution, a new revolution was being fomented the last week of April.
As a way to bring awareness to an inexpensive way to prevent injuries and death to children, the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (Ohio AAP) is sponsoring Bike Helmet Safety Awareness Week from May 7-11, 2012. According to Ohio AAP, a $10 bike helmet saves a healthcare system $41 per child.
The global market for clinical chemistry, valued at $11.1 billion in 2011, is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5 percent, to reach $17.3 billion in 2018, said medical intelligence company GlobalData in a new report.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) board of directors has endorsed two measures that address all-cause unplanned readmissions in hospitals -- an area of healthcare targeted for improvement given national imperatives to make healthcare safer, more affordable and keep people healthy.
In order to control the overall cost of healthcare in the U.S., stakeholders must focus on high-cost patients with chronic conditions, David Blumenthal, MD, told an audience at NEHI's Bridging the Innovation Gap conference in Boston on Thursday.