Quality and Safety
One day after Providence Health and Services and St. Joseph Health began operating as a combined nonprofit entity, and the newly-formed health and social services system -- dubbed Providence St. Joseph Health -- said Wednesday that it will use a $100 million investment to create the Institute for Mental Health and Wellness.
Many clinicians report feeling pressure to overprescribe opioids because scores on the pain management questions are tied to Medicare payments.
While the legacy skin test is cheaper in terms of materials, it requires more staff time, and a greater commitment on the part of the patient.
The data show that prices vary widely even within the most expensive regions. Patients, however, rarely know how much a procedure will cost until they receive the bill.
The new HEDIS technical specifications include four new measures, changes to seven existing measures and one that's been retired altogether.
The study's authors said research into practice-level implementation should be the next step, particularly since the vast majority of research conducted to date has been under old -- and possibly soon-to-be-outdated -- care delivery models.
The United States House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce is demanding to know what Theranos, the embattled blood-testing startup based in California, is doing to address its testing inaccuracies and questionable adherence to federal guidelines.
NJSNA members and 351 nurses from around the country urged elected officials to repeal language blocking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting gun violence research, and from looking into appropriate funding to examine the causes and effective prevention strategies for gun violence.
A new study offers surprising findings about end-of-life care.
3,300 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital have said they would go out on strike for 24 hours on Monday, causing the major Boston healthcare provider to bring in 700 nurses from an outside agency and ramp down patient operations to 60 percent capacity.