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Healthcare consulting firm Optum on Tuesday launched The Optum Institute for Sustainable Health, a research and applied policy group with the goal of increasing coordination of care, improving transparency and encouraging patient engagement.
Optum, UnitedHealth's IT subsidiary, launched The Optum Institute for Sustainable Health on Tuesday, which aims to provide analysis and insight for a changing healthcare landscape. It also announced the results of a new survey, "Sustainable Health Communities – A Manifesto for Improvement."
Patients are looking for doctors who will check up on them and offer guidance between office visits says a new report, "A Fragile Nation in Poor Health," a look at why patients don't follow their doctors' treatment plans and what solutions are available to the healthcare community.
Forty percent of every dollar spent on healthcare is wasted or spent on preventable complications, said Karen Feinstein, president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, to an audience at the Maine Health Management Coalition on Nov. 10.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched the Health Care Innovation Challenge, which will award $1 billion in grants in March to test inventive and compelling methods to deliver high quality medical care at lower costs to individuals enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
In healthcare, one-size-fits-all doesn't have to be the national model for holding down costs and offering high quality care said speakers at "Building a World-Class System: Better Business, Better Health."
The federal advisory Health IT Standards Committee is asking for feedback from individuals and organizations experienced in deploying specifications developed for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN) Exchange.
Medical device manufacturer Stryker Corporation last week announced plans to cut its global workforce by approximately 5 percent. Other restructuring activities are also anticipated to reduce the company's annual pre-tax operating costs by over $100 million beginning in 2013.
The ranks of American adults without health insurance is now 17.3 percent of the population, a rate that is the highest on record, according to a Gallup poll measuring uninsurance rates in the third quarter.