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The Premier healthcare alliance has created a new efficiency dashboard that identifies 15 separate categories where there could likely be savings opportunities for hospitals, as announced by the company during a media call.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday that it has signed on 27 organizations as the first under its Shared Savings Program for accountable care organizations (ACO).
As president and CEO of one of the country's largest healthcare organizations, Susan DeVore has pushed for cost-effective and high-quality care as well as set an example for the importance of ethical business standards.
The California Telehealth Network will expand telemedicine training and provide technical support for rural and medically underserved clinics and hospitals in California with a $700,000 from UnitedHealthcare, building on the $600,000 it donated in 2010.
A new study from HIMSS Analytics and Kroll Advisory Solutions shows that, a diligent focus on security compliance notwithstanding, healthcare providers are still badly lacking when it comes to privacy protections. In fact, data breaches have only increased in recent years.
As the job market for the healthcare sector continues to steam along, there's a smudge on the bright horizon: Healthcare organizations lack leadership strategy.
A proposed rule that would establish a unique health plan identifier under HIPAA and would implement several administrative simplification provisions of the Affordable Care Act was announced Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
A new brief by the Commonwealth Fund using insurance company MLR data from 2010 shows that health insurance consumers would have received $2 billion in rebates if the new medical loss ratio (MLR) rules contained in the Affordable Care Act had been in effect that year.
Targeted geographic expansion into new markets with well-insured people is the new frontier for hospitals seeking a competitive edge in the marketplace, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) published in the April edition of Health Affairs.
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), which bills itself as the leading authority on the use of health IT to improve the exchange of healthcare information, today announced its collaboration with other industry and government entities to support the industry's upgrade to ASC X12 5010.