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The use of social networking in healthcare is fostering greater online collaboration that can lead to improved health outcomes and drive down costs, according to a new report from the Healthcare Performance Management (HPM) Institute.
HealthPartners, the nation's largest consumer-governed, nonprofit healthcare organization, has launched virtuwell.
As the federal government moves forward with plans to encourage accountable care organizations, experts are warning that some ACOs could raise healthcare costs rather than lower them.
Two Miami healthcare companies and four owners and senior managers of the companies have been indicted on charges of participating in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme involving mental health services.
If anyone ever doubted the extent to which Congressional committees could turn good intentions into a bureaucratic nightmare, they need only to look at PPACA’s premium subsidy provisions and their potential impact on insurance exchanges.
Aided by its electronic health record system, Kaiser Permanente of Georgia has the highest breast cancer-screening rate for eligible women ages 42 to 69 among the health plans reporting to the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA).
Americans' confidence in their ability to obtain and afford healthcare rose for the second consecutive month in September, according to a consumer sentiment index produced by Thomson Reuters.
Six Fortune 500 companies and Massachusetts have launched Catalyst for Payment Reform, a non-profit organization focused on helping large employers use their leverage to accelerate healthcare payment reforms.
"Is HITECH working?" That was the question posed by Vince Kuraitis, principal of Better Health Technologies, at the Mobile Health Expo in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Among the many compromises in the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA) is the prohibition against using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) for coverage, reimbursement or incentive programs. The idea, presumably, is to repel the suggestion that PPACA enables "rationing" or death panels.