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As healthcare organizations try to make hay with big data, venturing into new areas such as predictive analytics and data discovery, they're ramping up their investments in analytics and business intelligence tools, according to a new survey from Lavastorm Analytics.
Celebrating its third anniversary this weekend, the Affordable Care Act has shown demonstrable benefits, but those are no guarantee of overall success.
Cancer drug shortages are forcing treatment changes and delays that for some patients have led to worse outcomes, more therapy-related complications and higher costs, according to a national survey of health professionals published Thursday.
The Department of Health and Human Services has to fill some gaps in improper payment reduction and reporting compliance, according to the agency's Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
One example of the dilemmas posed by the rise of personalized medicine is Alzheimer's Disease: the ApoE genetic test can predict early onset of it, but there's still no effective therapy to stop dementia.
A report released in February found that state scope of practice laws and payment policies are two of the biggest challenges to expanding care provided by nurse practitioners.
A survey of small employers by eHealth, Inc. has found many struggling to understand their legal responsibilities and new choices under the Affordable Care Act.
When Premier healthcare alliance officials announced this week that their data-sharing collaborative saved 92,000 lives and $9.1 billion since 2008, the emphasis was on the data, but in a briefing Wednesday about the private sector's role in Medicare Susan DeVore, Premier president and CEO, explained that one of major drivers behind the collaborative's success was the culture change that took place among the healthcare providers.
A new report from the West Health Institute contends that improvements in the ability of medical devices and health IT systems to communicate and exchange data could lead to more than $30 billion a year in savings.
Today in the third of three hearings held by subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology reassured a congressional panel that health IT interoperability will take some dramatic leaps forward within the next two years.