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Massachusetts is aiming set the first statewide target for healthcare spending in the U.S. by holding healthcare cost increases to the same rate as the state's economy.
It can be difficult to navigate through all the information Twitter puts out every second of every day. With such big changes happening constantly in the healthcare world -- especially with the impending ICD-10 transition -- it's important to be able to find pertinent information in a timely fashion. To help you be able to do that, we've cobbled together a list of some of the best ICD-10 tweeters currently out there.
A new report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows that health insurers that offer commercial and Medicare plans operate at a loss for their Medicaid plans, while those that specialize in Medicaid only operate at a profit.
On Friday, the Mayo Clinic and Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) in New Hampshire announced a formal collaboration with the goal of improving health and healthcare quality at both institutions while lowering overall costs.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is now offering a case management accreditation program and three organizations have already signed on.
A Government Accountability Office report issued late last week examining Medicare EHR incentive payments found only 16 percent of eligible hospitals and 9 percent of professionals received payments under the program in 2011.
A Government Accountability Office report issued late last week examining Medicare EHR incentive payments found only 16 percent of eligible hospitals and 9 percent of professionals received payments under the program in 2011.
The impending demise of solo physician practice has been predicted for several years now. In early July, recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins put the proverbial nail in the coffin of solo physician practice by declaring it officially dead. But like the old man in 1975's "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" protesting "I'm not dead!", doctors aren't ready to be hauled off for burial.
According to a recent report published in the August issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) doubled at academic medical centers nationwide in five years.
If mobile medical apps are going to stand any chance of survival -- with physicians as well as consumers -- they'll have to be able to integrate with other devices and healthcare platforms, with electronic medical records and personal health records.