Jeff Lagasse
The platform uses blockchain and secure computation to allow payers, providers and life science companies to engage in patient-centric value-based contracts.
USC researchers say tool could be used to create an objective method for evaluating surgeon proficiency with implications for patient satisfaction and reimbursement.
New research finds that the more effective cervical cancer treatment is losing ground to an increasingly popular alternative that generates four times the revenue from Medicare payments.
Patients admitted to rural hospitals have greater risk of death during hospitalization than they do in urban hospitals, a study finds. That means it's time for healthcare executives to address this problem.
Even though high-deductible insurance options could save patients thousands of dollars every year, most people are not shopping around for better prices when it comes to low value services.
Patients, clinicians and even visitors all find alarms, alerts, beeps and loudspeaker pages make hospitals stays more exasperating.
Cotton Medical Center won the award for "Best Renovated or Repurposed Healthcare Facility."
While 3-D mammography screening are FDA-approved, only about half of the National Cancer Institute's Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium participants offer the service.
When Franciscan Health assembled a team of executives and clinicians to assess physician performance, they found big opportunities disguised as problems.
New research finds patients could benefit if they are invited to co-produce medical notes with doctors rather than simply reading them.