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When it comes to healthcare analytics, hospitals and health systems can benefit most from the information if they move towards understanding the analytic discoveries, rather than just focusing on the straight facts.
Call it a post-reelection prediction: On the day after President Barack Obama secured a second term at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, an attorney for a prominent healthcare law firm suggested that even Republican governors would succumb to the lure of expanding Medicaid on the federal dime.
Aetna is now marketing its population health and information technology businesses and products under a new division, called Healthagen, with the aim of expanding provider collaboration and offering patients mobile health tools.
More than half of employers have not calculated the cost and impact of healthcare reform on their benefit packages for employees, even though most employers want to avoid cost increases for their group health plans, according to a survey released by the Willis Human Capital Practice, a unit of insurance broker Willis Group Holdings.
A new survey has found that 70 percent of healthcare professionals are skeptical that the state and/or federal health insurance exchanges (HIX) will be ready to launch by the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline.
An accountable care initiative comprising insurer Independence Blue Cross, local provider group Abington Health and St. Louis-based tech firm Lumeris, will be among the first of its kind in greater Philadelphia, with doctors having a 360-degree view of a patient's care across specialists and physicians, hospitals and clinics from all networks.
Five unionized nursing centers in Connecticut operated by HealthBridge Management LLC are filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, just as several hundred striking employees are set to return to work under a court order.
With the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) expansion of insurance coverage expected to increase the need for primary care services -- requiring an estimated additional 7,200 primary care providers -- 7 million Americans could likely face a primary care physician shortage after 2014.
An accountable care initiative comprising Philadelphia-based insurer Independence Blue Cross, local provider group Abington Health and St. Lous-based tech firm Lumeris, will be among the first of its kind in greater Philadelphia, with doctors having a 360-degree view of a patient's care across specialists and physicians, hospitals and clinics from all networks.
As another governor changed his mind on expanding Medicaid coverage last week, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded $300 million in Medicaid demonstration grants to Arkansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon and Vermont -- the last two arguably having the most ambitious redesigned policies.