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Healthcare spending by the Canadian federal government will reach a record high level of $30.3 billion in 2013-14, according to an announcement made this week by the nation's Ministry of Health.
While the focus on many initiatives in transforming hospitals to an accountable care model has focused on IT tools and investments, the biggest challenge facing providers moving to an ACO model is managing the business process change, according to a new analysis by market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
For 15 years, Congress has bestowed special privileges to some small remote hospitals, usually in rural areas, to help them stay afloat. Despite these benefits, there's new evidence that the quality of many of these hospitals may be deteriorating.
TriZetto Corporation expects to create as many as 750 new jobs over five years, the healthcare technology company announced April 2 during the opening ceremony for its new worldwide company headquarters in Colorado.
In the first (and perhaps only) delay of health insurance exchange implementation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is pushing back by one year the creation of the small business employee choice program in the federal HIX.
Chicago health information technology company EMRapproved recently announced a partnership with a new collaboration called HealthITxChange, an online community where healthcare practitioners and health IT professionals can share best practices and lessons learned -- or "pearls" -- on EHR adoption.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Tuesday published an update for the 2014 Clinical Quality Measures for hospitals eligible for the meaningful use program. At the same time, CMS also issued corresponding specifications for electronic reporting and access to related data elements and value sets.
The move to electronic health records could mean more money should be earmarked from general services budgets.
Two recent studies on nurse understaffing and nurse fatigue have revealed that these two prominent issues negatively impact the quality of care delivery, patient and employee satisfaction and operational costs in hospitals.
Insurers in Minnesota spent nearly $19 billion in medical care in 2012, up 7 percent from 2011, while the average operating margin dropped to 0.57 percent, according to a report from the Minnesota Council of Health Plans (MCHP).