Jeff Lagasse

Just two teaching hospitals with at least 500 beds earned top C. diff prevention scores, meaning their infection rates were 50 percent better than the national benchmark.

Benchmarks for expected returns are also needed, it said, as well as a deeper understanding of how investment mechanisms, such as bonds and social finance, can help improve healthcare.

Overall spending grew across the major categories of total healthcare expenditures, including public coverage, commercial coverage and the net cost of private health insurance.

Through 2019, these networks will work to achieve a 20 percent decrease in overall patient harm and a 12 percent reduction in 30-day hospital readmissions.

Earlier this month, CHS said it had found five buyers for 12 hospitals it had planned to sell, with proceeds from all 12 expected to raise upwards of $850 million for the struggling company.

In fact, charges in the third quarter of 2015 were actually higher than charges in previous quarters.

At the same time, health plans spend more than $654 million per year in unnecessary claims resolution calls, HealthEdge found.

Others par8o clients include MGM Resorts in Las Vegas, The William F. Ryan Community Health Network, Dignity Health, and St. Joseph Health System in Anaheim, California.

Standard form EHR contracts can be a bit tricky to negotiate, according to Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

According to the new American Medical Association survey, primary care providers and physicians in large, complex practices log the most digital usage and are most enthusiastic about new technologies.