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The vice president took to the stage at Health Datapalooza not just to share his own experiences, but to put out a call to action: While the government has taken great strides to increase access to technology-enabled healthcare, it's still not enough, he said.
The incident involves a February 2016 postcard sent to consumers of mental health services inviting participation in an upcoming satisfaction survey.
The company targets millennials, who have been at the forefront of change in other industries. Zoom is designed for an imaginary patient named Sarah, who is in her early thirties and wants to get her health care the same way she gets other services in her life -- quickly and efficiently.
Presenters will describe strategies around consumer engagement, provider contracting, and care coordination models tailored by population data, said Kevin Counihan, CEO of the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Many hospitals are still not meeting national performance targets when it comes to the quality of maternity care, according to a new study from the Leapfrog Group.
Only 168 hospitals in the United States earned five stars in the latest Hospital Compare ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to new data released last week.
Catholic hospitals and health systems are on the rise in the United States, but patients' rights watchdog MergerWatch is claiming that trend will limit women's ability to obtain reproductive health services.
Medicaid managed care programs remains vulnerable to improper payments to providers, according to a recent Government Accountability Report to a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, since the information needed to screen providers for inclusion in the program is often fragmented and unavailable.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell on Monday formally challenged the healthcare industry to finally fix issues with confusing medical bills, and the U.S. government is putting a cash prize behind the effort.
Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan is poised to become the latest proton therapy center in the United States having recently scored a Proteus One Gantry system that precisely directs cancer-killing proton beams at tumors.