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PwC's Health Research Institute has predicted the top 10 issues facing healthcare in 2012. Insurance exchanges, consumer trepidation, drug shortages and the need for organizations to prove value promise to be among the hallmarks of a 'seminal' year.
PwC's Health Research Institute has predicted the top 10 issues facing healthcare in the coming year. Insurance exchanges, consumer trepidation, drug shortages and the need for organizations to prove value promise to be among the hallmarks of a 'seminal' year.
Optum, UnitedHealth's IT subsidiary, launched The Optum Institute for Sustainable Health on Tuesday, which aims to provide analysis and insight for a changing healthcare landscape. It also announced the results of a new survey, "Sustainable Health Communities – A Manifesto for Improvement."
The federal advisory Health IT Standards Committee is asking for feedback from individuals and organizations experienced in deploying specifications developed for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN) Exchange.
The ranks of American adults without health insurance is now 17.3 percent of the population, a rate that is the highest on record, according to a Gallup poll measuring uninsurance rates in the third quarter.
The United States spends the highest percentage of GDP in the world on healthcare, yet we have some of the highest rates of heart disease, obesity and infant mortality. We also have the shortest life expectancy compared to developed Western Europe, Japan, Australia and Canada. Clearly, what we're doing here isn't working and has resulted in an inefficient healthcare system with the highest costs in the world and disappointing clinical outcomes.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has recently signed up eight large health systems under an aligned incentive model, a critical milestone in the health plan's strategy of fostering an accountable care organization.
A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records have issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between providers, health information exchanges and other data-sharing partners.