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Policy advisors for Delaware Governor Jack Markell are crafting plans to introduce accountable care models into the state's payment and provider systems with support from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Massachusetts' first annual report on the state healthcare market shows high costs putting pressure on consumers, just as the state is embracing alternative payment models.
Healthcare prices in the United States rose marginally from June to July 2013, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, although the rate of increase was higher than a year ago.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has jumped head-first into the deep waters of mobile health. The health insurance giant has selected Cognizant, a mobile communication company, to provide a platform for getting mobile apps to its 3.3 million members.
Farzad Mostashari, Dick Foster and Uwe Reinhardt lead a panel discussion at Health Datapalooza IV to discuss whether or not the current surge in public and private sector spending on health IT programs is going to reduce healthcare costs.
Hospitals and patient advocacy groups were among organizations awarded $67 million in federal grants Thursday to help people sign up for coverage in new online health insurance marketplaces that open for enrollment Oct. 1.
Physicians are worried about the future. Some are downright pessimistic.
Ninety percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years and the healthcare industry is becoming a big contributor to this data deluge.
In Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It, ($25, Rowman & Littlefield), authors Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh explore the ties that bind Wall Street and Washington and how that impacts the country's healthcare system. Gibson talked about the book with Healthcare Finance News.
By focusing on reducing early elective deliveries and hospital-acquired infections, a collaborative called Patient Safety First (PSF) has helped California hospitals avoid 3,576 deaths and more than $63 million in unnecessary hospital costs between 2009 and 2012.