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By Mike Miliard | 12:34 pm | November 09, 2011
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.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:26 pm | November 09, 2011
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.
By Chris Anderson | 12:09 pm | November 09, 2011
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.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:09 pm | November 09, 2011
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.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:09 pm | November 09, 2011
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.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:27 am | November 09, 2011
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.
By Rene Letourneau | 09:06 pm | November 08, 2011
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."
By Richard Pizzi | 12:26 pm | November 08, 2011
The healthcare employment engine rolls on. The industry continued to add jobs in October, increasing employment by 11,600 positions.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:23 pm | November 08, 2011
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.
By Chris Anderson | 11:53 am | November 08, 2011
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.