Quality and Safety
Athenahealth's More Disruption Please initiative may serve the company's bottom line, but it's heart is more subversive: to dismantle the healthcare system as it exists today. And the company is doing it one person at a time.
Across the country, hospitals and health systems are transitioning to accountable care organizations (ACOs). What does it take to do that?
While Connecticut's 2014-2015 budget has yet to be finalized, hospitals and healthcare systems in the state are claiming that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed cuts of more than $500 million in hospital funding over the next two years would be devastating.
In order for the country's healthcare system to survive in the next few years, every healthcare provider is going to have no choice but to make innovative changes and involve patients in the care process. So said longtime health IT advocate C. Peter Waegemann, founder of the now-defunct Medical Records Institute, during a webinar Thursday.
Management consulting firm Deloitte and Intermountain Healthcare have forged a five-year deal that will see the companies tap into nearly two trillion unique medical data elements collected over 40 years, with the goal of gaining treatment insights that can be shared with physicians, hospitals, manufacturers, vendors and payers across the country.
Doctor-owned hospitals are earning many of the largest bonuses from the federal health law's new quality programs, even as the law halts their growth.
A new report by Trust for America's Health says prevention improves health and productivity and saves billions, but is prevention really cost effective?
With a growing focus on continuity of care across settings, the Hospital Corporation of America North Texas Division (HCA) and First Choice Emergency Room, a freestanding emergency room system, have formed a partnership to increase access in Dallas-Ft. Worth region.
In the early days of the latest incarnation of the patient-centered medical home, William Warning II, MD, the program director of a family medicine residency program, recognized an opportunity, and he wasn’t going to sit back and let it pass him – or his program – by.
The demand for in-home care is growing by leaps and bounds, putting pressure on the home care industry to produce enough workers to meet the demand and provide high-quality care. A webinar on Tuesday addressed some of the ways the industry can ensure it meets the needs of an aging population.