Jessica Davis
Many providers are at a crossroads right now: Either join an accountable care organization or be placed into Medicare's Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.
While financial incentives influence physician behavior and moderately improve quality measures, non-incentivized providers targeted with other quality measure efforts have greater performance improvement, according to a recent study published by the JAMA Network.
Intermountain Healthcare is rolling out mobile, cloud-based rounding and audit compliance tools powered by Nashville-based ReadyPoint.
Minnesota Community Healthcare Network, made up of an alliance between Canvas Health, Guild Incorporated, Mental Health Resource, RESOURCE, INC. and Touchstone Mental Health, announced today it has joined with RelayHealth to establish interoperability amongst its campuses.
Christine K. Cassel, MD, president and CEO of National Quality Forum, will resign March 1, 2016, in order to take a leadership role in designing the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.
Triple-S Management Corporation has agreed to settle potential HIPAA violations with the U.S. Department of Health and Human services to the tune of $3.5 million, after repeatedly failing to put safeguards in place for its beneficiaries' PHI.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program will add $23.4 million in additional funding for 75 new projects in 31 states, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
Nearly three-quarters of health systems with more than 300 beds -- and 81 percent of providers with fewer than 300 beds -- are shifting their focus to IT outsourcing as bottom-line pressures force systems to choose outside vendors, according to a new Black Book Research survey of hospital finance and tech administrators.
Geisinger Health System's plan to offer refunds for 'dissatisfied' surgery patients came out of extensive study on how to react when patients have bad experiences, the healthcare provider said. Now it's putting its faith in the ProvenExperience program and app to turn bad situations around.
While some carriers may see the need to instate payment guidelines, the overwhelming majority of physicians surveyed cite administrative issues and a lack of billing services to address the need for reimbursement tools as a major detraction from implementing telehealth into their practices.