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Americans with multiple chronic conditions -- not necessarily those with a poor immediate prognosis -- could have the largest impact on national spending, according to a new study published by Health Affairs.
For years policymakers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have hypothesized that better integration of healthcare services helps improve outcomes and lower costs. Now there is evidence to back up the claim, CMS officials said in a blog released Thursday.
LAS VEGAS--Partnering with providers, using telehealth, and having more appropriate end-of-life care, are among the challenges that need to be addressed to lower the cost of healthcare, according to health insurance leaders who opened America's Health Insurance Plans' Annual Institute and Expo Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Starting salaries for both primary care physicians and specialists have shot up in the last 12 months, according to a 2016 report by Merritt Hawkins, a physician search firm and subsidiary of AMN Healthcare. The spike represents a rising demand for physicians and amid the growing doctor shortage, Merritt Hawkins said.
With the newly-announced Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative Data Challenge, the foundation is offering $25,000 to two teams of entrants who'll work with researchers to expand understanding of the disease and improve the rate of drug testing.
Allscripts, Marshfield Clinic Information Services and athenahealth are the highest-ranking EHRs among large physician practices, according to new findings from Black Book Market Research.
The share of mental health treatment expenditures financed by private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid increased from 44 percent in 1986 to 68 percent in 2014, a study released Monday by Health Affairs showed.
Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Network will employ IBM Watson's cognitive computing skills to help match cancer patients with clinical trials.
The global market for oncology drugs swelled to $107 billion in 2015, fueled by a steady surge of innovation and new therapies that flooded the market, a new study released by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics revealed.
Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting topic and speaker proposals for Pop Health Forum 2016 scheduled for September 12-13 in Chicago.