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Healthcare costs in Vermont grew by a modest 1.5 percent in 2011 -- a positive sign, say members of the Green Mountain Care Board, but not cause for celebration, especially considering other recent findings of hospital cost-shifting from public-payers to commercial health plans.
As insurance exchanges, subsidies for low-income earners and a raft of health and insurance regulations get underway, the U.S. could learn from similar reforms and programs enacted in Switzerland and the Netherlands -- even as those countries still have problems to sort out, a Health Affairs study suggests.
A dominating theme in healthcare today is collaboration and partnership across all sectors of the industry in order to create a continuum of care. For the continuum of care to happen, partnerships must be struck between healthcare entities that haven't necessarily worked much together in the past. An early April webinar addressed how such partnerships can be successfully formed.
The Center for Technology and Aging has launched an online mHealth Toolkit that officials say offers key resources to organizations that want to develop a best-in-class mHealth program for chronic disease management.
In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine's largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. The health system's leadership has determined $15 million needs to be saved to breakeven by year's end.
Critically ill Medicare patients, who are battling for stable health at the end of life, are victims of repeated hospitalizations, especially after being discharged to a skilled nursing facility (SNF). The cycle of hospitalizations is an indicator of poor care coordination and discharge planning -- causing the patient to get sicker after every "bounce back" to the hospital.
Tenet Healthcare Corp. on Tuesday reported a net loss of $88 million or $0.85 per share in its first quarter 2013 report based largely on one-time charges and restructuring costs, but after adjustments to earnings it reported a profit of $0.33 per share, significantly beating analysts estimates of $0.28 per share.
The Department of Health and Human Services has released an enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care -- a blueprint meant to help organizations improve healthcare quality in serving diverse communities in the U.S.
Healthcare workers are burned out -- so much so that more than a third of them say they plan to look for a new job this year, according to a new survey from CareerBuilder.
Health systems foresee a major shift this year from inpatient admissions to treatment in outpatient settings as they overhaul care delivery models to meet healthcare reform changes, according to the Premier healthcare alliance.