Bernie Monegain
The need to drive down the cost of healthcare will be one of several factors leading to a $2.3 billion worldwide market for in vitro diagnostic company sales to physician office labs this year, according to healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information.
The Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization will roll out analytics software to help its doctors measure clinical performance. The goal is to reduce variations in care - capabilities essential to the Massachusetts-based organization's plans to operate successfully under anticipated state and national payment reform changes.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced a $750 million investment in disease prevention and public health initiatives.
Before embracing an accountable care organization model, academic medical centers need to assess the financial risk, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Investment in healthcare companies fell 7 percent in 2010 to $7.4 billion for 702 deals, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. The industry's smallest sector, Healthcare Services, saw the strongest growth, tripling the capital raised in 2009.
Research on post-traumatic stress disorder cost the government $24.5 million in 2009, up from the $9.9 million spent in 2005, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
The American Medical Association and 100 medical and physician organizations say the bi-partisan HEALTH Act, submitted to Congress earlier this week, could be exactly what the doctor ordered for solving medical liability issues.
New reimbursement models driven by healthcare reform top the list of healthcare provider predictions for 2011 from IDC Health Insights analysts Judy Hanover and Lynn Dunbrack.
The government's healthcare fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered more than $4 billion in taxpayer dollars for the Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program in 2010, the largest sum ever recovered in a single year, according to findings published in the government's Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program report.
A survey of almost 3,000 physicians indicates 65 percent are worried that healthcare reform would result in less pay for them and lower the quality of care for their patients.