Stephanie Bouchard
As part of its “From Courtship to Marriage” series looking at how hospitals and physicians can work together, PricewaterhouseCoopers reports that while most doctors want more involvement in the governance of hospitals, hospital administrators worry that doctors don’t have the leadership training needed to fill those roles.
Studies have shown that therapy gardens help patients and residents of long-term care facilities experience less stress, lowered blood pressure and improvements in mood and socialization and have a more balanced circadian rhythm. Alzheimer’s patients, meanwhile, experience a decrease in aggressive behavior.
A study presented last month at the annual American Psychiatric Association conference points to a pending crisis in geriatric psychiatry and potential healthcare cost increases as older adults end up in emergency rooms for mental health-related issues.
A study that used game theory to explore the impact of group purchasing organizations on healthcare supply chains has found that providers using GPOs experience lower total purchasing costs.
In less than a decade, for-profit hospices have proliferated at an astounding rate, and that may be cause for concern, say the authors of "In the Business of Dying: Questioning the Commercialization of Hospice," a study released earlier this month in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
Seven U.S. senators have asked the Department of Health and Human Services to withdraw its proposed rule governing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's accountable care organizations because "it misses the target" of better care at lower costs.
A study in The Archives of Internal Medicine has listed the top five activities in family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics where the quality of care could be improved and costs of care could be reduced.
A study released earlier this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that medical professionals are concerned about bias from commercial funding of continuing medical education – but they aren't willing to pay more money for CME if commercial funding is curtailed or eliminated.
As the Connecticut Legislature debates a bill requiring private businesses to provide paid sick days to its workers, the Institute for Women's Policy Research has issued a report saying paid sick days will save the state - and the healthcare system - money.
WakeMed Health and Hospitals of Raleigh, N.C., has submitted an unsolicited offer to purchase rival Rex Healthcare from the UNC Health Care system for $750 million.