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So far, their partnership includes four Sutter Health hospitals and two Alameda Health System hospitals. Since the program began on March 31, Alta Bates and Highland Hospitals have learned that they shared more than 2,000 patients, and over a third of them made six or more ER visits in the past year.
Company has partnered with MemorialCare Health System on a customized health plan option for Boeing's 37,000 employees and their family members in southern California.
In 2013, aggregate hospital costs for 35.6 million hospital stays totaled more than $381 billion.
Less than a decade ago, telemedicine was mainly used by hospitals and clinics for secure doctor-to-doctor consultations. But today, telemedicine has become a more common method for patients to receive routine care at home or wherever they are -- often on their cellphones or personal computers.
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More than 1,200 people died of an overdose in Georgia in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with opioid drugs frequently implicated in those deaths. That's a 10 percent increase over the previous year. Georgia has put a one-year moratorium on issuing licenses to clinics that use medicine to treat people addicted to heroin or painkillers.
Tens of thousands of American lives could be saved each year with a concerted national effort to emulate what top military and civilian trauma centers are doing, a prestigious panel of top medical experts reported Friday.
A survey by Nielsen, and sponsored by the Council of Accountable Physician Practices, has found that when it comes to patients' experiences with coordinated care, there's still some room for improvement.
As healthcare increasingly adopts tools supporting value-based care delivery, the potential multi-billion dollar market for population health management is getting a big boost, according to new analysis from research firm Frost & Sullivan.
Before the industry can cater to what the customer wants, it needs to determine just what that is, according to Anthem's David Poole, speaking at the conference for America's Health Insurance Plans Wednesday.