Quality and Safety
A single, coordinated approach to performance reporting is needed to make promised Medicare payment reforms work, the American Medical Association and other physician groups are expected to tell lawmakers Tuesday morning during a Subcommittee on Health hearing on Capitol Hill.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is poised to deliver new cybersecurty guidance, according to NIST fellow Ronald Ross.
The number of potentially deadly infections from contaminated medical scopes is far higher than what federal officials previously estimated, a new congressional investigation shows.
MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Washington and Salt Lake City-based data analytics company Health Catalyst joined forces in a shared-risk contract aiming to save $25 million a year while also improving clinical outcomes.
Laboratory's receipt of Medicare payments also in question.
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acting administrator Andy Slavitt to delay releasing the latest quarterly Hospital Compare rankings over concerns that the methodology used to rate hospitals fails to account for a patient pool's social and income-level standings.
The first Zika vaccine candidate may enter initial clinical trials in September, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said.
Unfortunately, thousands of people in need of mental health treatment are often being dropped at the emergency departments of their local hospitals, where under federal law doctors must evaluate these patients despite the limitations on ER-based mental health treatment.
California Hospital Association is staunchly opposed to Assembly bill, saying that finding the right placement for a patient is much more complex than identifying an empty bed, and a registry could actually hinder efforts to get patients appropriate treatment.
Executives at University of Rochester Medical Center are so pleased with how the federal government's bundled payment joint replacement program is working that they want to expand it beyond Medicare, James Garnham, who heads bundled payments for the system, said Monday at a hearing on Capitol Hill.