Bernie Monegain
Top reason for using advanced analytics, especially within pop health programs, is enabling interventions that prevent health declines, study says.
The money will help states improve data collection and analysis to better understand how to prevent opioid abuse, curb deaths and treat addiction.
Intermountain Healthcare study conducted at 27 team-based medical practices and 75 traditional practices revealed that delivering integrated mental and physical healthcare in team-based primary care settings yields better results for patients and also reduces the rates healthcare utilization and lowers cost.
A total of 1,304 health centers across will use the money expand quality improvement systems and infrastructure and to improve primary care service delivery.
Fewer than one-fifth of U.S. hospitals indicate they regularly review the patient-reported measures to guide medical care, according to a new survey from Health Catalyst.
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded $3 million to researchers at Montefiore Medical Group, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center in an effort to curb HIV rates in the Bronx, a borough in New York with one of the highest HIV rates in the country.
More than 90 percent of hospitals across the country make patients' medical record available online, according to a new report from the American Hospital Association.
Cerner President Zane Burke announced on Tuesday that the company has hired Jeff Hurst to be its President of Cerner RevWorks and Senior Vice President of Cerner Revenue Cycle Management.
CMS is now calling for clinicians, hospitals, and critical access hospitals to use a 90-day EHR reporting period in 2016 - down from a full calendar year for returning participants in the government's EHR Incentive Program. They also proposed lowering the bar for achieving Stage 3 objectives, eliminating the Clinical Decision Support and Computerized Provider Order Entry objectives and measures for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals.
A third-party vendor is responsible for the security breach of the protected health information of 4,300 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital.