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The demand put pressure on medical labor markets and underscoring the likelihood of increasing physician shortages.
In a pilot program at the San Francisco Health Network affiliates, coordinating care with basic email lowered readmission rates by 58 percent.
KPMG and Leavitt Partners new survey found that health and life sciences organizations intend to invest in analytics and digital technologies that advance the shift from volume to value-based care.
Physician groups want risk-bearing models and the ability to offer Medicare Advantage plans to level playing field with health systems.
David Blumenthal, current CEO of Commonwealth Fund also wonders if the recent CVS-Aetna and UnitedHealth-DaVita Medical Group mergers foretell the end of traditional hospitals and nursing homes.
The platform uses blockchain and secure computation to allow payers, providers and life science companies to engage in patient-centric value-based contracts.
New research finds that the more effective cervical cancer treatment is losing ground to an increasingly popular alternative that generates four times the revenue from Medicare payments.
Even though high-deductible insurance options could save patients thousands of dollars every year, most people are not shopping around for better prices when it comes to low value services.
Community-based nursing homes that participated in this project lowered CAUTI rates by 54 percent.
The system's quarter closed with a $60 million reduction in net income to $227.6 million from $287.6 this time last year, financial documents show.