Quality and Safety
When it comes to hospital construction and design, the decisions around what is built and how it's built all have significant impact on not only an organization's bottom line, but also the quality of care given to patients.
Physicians are worried about the future. Some are downright pessimistic.
Patient Safety First has helped California hospitals avoid 3,576 deaths and more than $63 million in unnecessary hospital costs between 2009 and 2012.
Lean may be the biggest craze these days in creating efficiencies in hospitals and health systems, but some facilities are having success with a process that got its start at NASA.
America does not have a strategy to deal with the growing demand for long-term care.
To combat potential patient harm and reduce the costs from misdiagnosis, hospitals and medical practices are turning to clinical decision support tools.
Eight-hospital Barnabas Health in New Jersey is launching an accountable care organization program with the state's largest insurer, intended to both lower costs and improve care quality. The ACO go-live date is September 1.
As the population ages, the need for people to provide long-term care services is sharply increasing, even as the affordability and availability of LTC insurance is diminishing. The state of Connecticut is taking action.
A recently-released white paper suggests patients should pay a monthly subscription fee to their doctors.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that hospitals will see a slight increase in Medicare payments in 2014.