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Chronically and seriously ill adults who received care from a medical home were less likely to report medical errors, test duplication and other care coordination failures, according to a new international survey from the Commonwealth Fund.
A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records have issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between providers, health information exchanges and other data-sharing partners.
On the same day voters in Ohio were summarily rejecting by a margin of nearly 2-to-1 the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, justices at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia weighed in with a ruling upholding the mandate as constitutional.
On the same day voters in Ohio were summarily rejecting by a margin of nearly 2-to-1 the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, justices at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia weighed in with a ruling upholding the mandate as constitutional.
A new survey from Anthelio finds that a majority of community hospitals report having low operating margins due to rising healthcare costs and lower Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement. Nonetheless, most hospitals surveyed are still working to put in place an array of health IT.
Americans are fed up with big government and want to downsize. That's been the gist of news headlines for some time now. However, a new poll by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Harvard School of Public Health puts the kibosh on that popular notion.
When Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., implemented a new workforce management tool for its nursing units, the health system uncovered a hidden world of "haves" and "have-nots."
The healthcare employment engine rolls on. The industry continued to add jobs in October, increasing employment by 11,600 positions.
A new study from Rand Corp. of the PROMETHEUS Payment project shows that bundling payments to providers as a means to cut healthcare costs is proving harder to accomplish than originally anticipated.
Bundling payments to providers as a means to cut healthcare costs is proving harder to do than originally anticipated, according to a new study from non-profit research organization Rand Corp.