Quality and Safety
Hospitals hiring physicians as employees and primary care physicians receiving financial incentives for patients who do well are among the 2010 healthcare trends cited in a new industry report from staffing firm Jackson & Coker.
The market for point-of-care tests has almost doubled from 2003 to 2009, according to a new report published by Kalorama Information. With the ability to help reduce healthcare costs while simultaneously improving patient care, POC tests represent a significant and growing share of the world in vitro diagnostics (IVD) market.
With help from a $535,000 grant, the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians is launching a patient-centered medical home initiative this month.
Verisk Health, based in Waltham, Mass., has announced that its Sightlines Performance Measurement solution, designed to enable managed care organizations to review results quickly and easily for Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) quality measurement and reporting solutions, has been fully certified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
An accountable care organization in Texas is providing healthcare services that improve patient care and outcomes through a network of patient-centered medical home clinics instead of a hospital, according to a case study from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
If anything, 2011 is shaping up to be a year of considerable change for the healthcare industry. With the passage last year of the healthcare reform legislation followed by on-going legal challenges to certain aspects of the law, many in the healthcare field remain on the edge of their seats in anticipation of what is next.
The Cleveland Clinic plans to create a program that would focus on patient-physician collaboration.
Seven hospitals in Florida, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama have agreed to pay more than $6.3 million to settle allegations that submitted false claims to Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.
An Arizona patient awaiting a liver transplant who was removed from the waiting list as a result of state Medicaid budget cuts has died - the second such person to die since the cuts were announced on Oct. 1, 2010.
The Puget Sound Health Alliance has announced that 12 teams from six hospitals across Washington will participate in a nationwide effort to improve healthcare quality.