Quality and Safety
According to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, there are stark differences between communities state and nationwide when it comes to healthcare access, cost and quality.
A curious thing is happening. As the healthcare conversation moved front and center over the last several years, a correlation developed linking cost and quality.
Aetna and the Connecticut State Medical Society Independent Practice Association have announced a collaborative care model that will incorporate more than 500 CSMS-IPA physicians.
At a time when delivering high quality healthcare is a top priority for every hospital executive, physician-owned hospitals are having much difficulty gaining traction for future expansion and development in light of healthcare reform.
A new report prepared for the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System offers a series of recommendations to help shore up the finances of safety-net hospitals and promote their ability to provide high-quality care to low-income, vulnerable patients once the health reform law is fully implemented.
The trend of MRI and ultrasound being used together for more effective diagnosis is cited as a major reason for growth in sales of both modalities, according to a recent report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.
As the United States and Canada emerged from the Great Recession, charitable pledges to nonprofit healthcare organizations slowed in fiscal year 2010, jeopardizing the ability of healthcare systems in both countries to generate philanthropic funding necessary to meet their long-term, construction, equipment and patient needs.
A new whitepaper from the Center for Progressive Reform says medical tort reform won't provide significant savings, since the costs of malpractice insurance and paying injured patients amounts to only 0.3 percent of total healthcare costs each year.
The search for the best cancer therapy for individual patients pushed the personalized medicine market above $28 billion last year.
When asked to choose a healthcare provider based only on cost, consumers choose the more expensive option, according to a new study funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that appears in the March issue of Health Affairs.