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With the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expected by the end of this month, more and more policymakers, healthcare experts and stakeholders are becoming vocal about their predictions of the outcome.
Although summer movies highlight the deeds of solo superheroes, attacking hospital supply costs is strictly a team effort. At the Premier Breakthroughs conference in Nashville on June 6, representatives from Methodist Health System in Dallas, Texas, chronicled their 18-month collaboration with Premier Consulting Solutions -- a partnership that helped significantly reduce supply costs and keep them there.
At the recent HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo, David Kendrick, MD, CEO of MyHealth Access Network, a Beacon Community, spoke on his experiences not just implementing a community HIE, but also streamlining costs and improving quality of care in the state of Oklahoma.
By 2020, sales of new vaccines that do not currently exist on the market may hit $24.8 billion, predicted market research firm Kalorama Information in a recent report.
According to a new study published in the June issue of Health Affairs, half of adults over the age of 65 visited the emergency department at least once in their last month of life. In addition, three-quarters of those ED visits led to hospital admissions and more than two-thirds of those visitors died during their stay.
While payers across the country have launched a host of different forms of payment initiatives like ACOs and patient-centered medical homes, designed around some form of risk sharing, Washington-based Premera Blue Cross has found success via its unique payment model it calls Global Outcomes Contracting.
Data breaches are costly and can do great damage to a healthcare organization's reputation. Here are 10 of the largest data breaches in 2012... so far.
The California HealthCare Foundation and a group of innovators have released a technical prototype and road map for states and the federal government to create a health insurance exchange.
While consumers and developing countries are driving the growth of the global mHealth market developed nations like the United States are slower to adapt finds a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
While many private payers across the country have rushed to launch payment initiatives wrapped around healthcare delivery models like ACOs and patient-centered medical homes, Washington-based Premera Blue Cross has found success via its unique payment model it calls Global Outcomes Contracting.