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CMS issued the final rules for accountable care organizations (ACO) on Thursday and, in so doing, sparked excitement throughout healthcare with what initially appears to be a more achievable set of qualifying parameters. But it will take some time for the healthcare industry to absorb and understand the changes.
As Joseph Kvedar, MD, director of Partners Healthcare's Center for Connected Health, looked out upon a crowded ballroom at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel Thursday afternoon, he was reminded of a concept hatched roughly two decades ago.
As patient-centered medical homes become a larger part of the healthcare system, it’s important that all the participants be trained on how to work in teams, said Larry Mauksch, M.Ed., during the Maine Primary Care Association’s annual conference held this week.
Based on conversations with hospital CEOs, healthcare consulting firm Huron Healthcare ranks the top 5 issues keeping healthcare leaders up at night.
Providers offer options for the Supercommittee to cut Medicare costs by making better coverage decisions and discouraging routine unnecessary services.
Four common infections seen in healthcare facilities declined in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.
Healthgrades recently released its 2011 Healthcare Consumerism and Hospital Quality in America report, which documented patient outcomes at almost 5,000 American hospitals. From gaps in mortality rates to procedures and diagnoses, the report was eye opening and offers some keys to note concerning hospital quality.
As hospitals and doctors continue to merge at an accelerated rate, health systems will face significant risk management challenges, according to an analysis by Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management arm of Aon Corporation.
Administration officials including Health and Human Service Secretary Kahtleen Sebelius and CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, Tuesday announced new proposed rules to eliminate obsolete and redundant government healthcare regulations that could save hospitals and providers $1.1 billion annually and more than $5 billion over five years.
The American College of Physicians, which represents 132,000 internal medicine specialists, is proposing a privacy rule that says researchers should maximize appropriate uses of information to achieve scientific advances without compromising ethical obligations to protect individual welfare and privacy.