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The company targets millennials, who have been at the forefront of change in other industries. Zoom is designed for an imaginary patient named Sarah, who is in her early thirties and wants to get her health care the same way she gets other services in her life -- quickly and efficiently.
With the healthcare industry suddenly accounting for nearly 25 percent of all data breaches, a new study from The Brookings Institution suggests some new cybersecurity strategies are needed.
The study measures how many people were hospitalized between 2002 and 2012 because they were abusing heroin or prescription painkillers, and how many of them got serious infections related to their drug use. It also tracks what hospitals charged to treat those patients and how the hospitals were paid.
The findings are based on Medicare cost reports from fiscal year 2013, analyzing almost 3,000 acute-care hospitals. About 60 percent were nonprofit, while one in four were for-profit. The rest were public, or government-owned.
The bonuses are small, generally a fraction of a percent of their Medicare payments. Nonetheless, rewarding hospitals of mediocre quality was hardly the stated goal when the Affordable Care Act created financial incentives to encourage better medical care from hospitals, doctors and other health care providers.
The report is intended to reveal multiple inefficiencies in how large U.S. businesses manage their expenses.
About 71 percent of healthcare executives expect their revenues to increase in 2016 and 55 percent expect to seek financing in the next 12 months, a new study released Monday by CIT Group has found.
If you have cancer, chances are your outpatient chemotherapy treatment costs are higher if your oncologist works for a healthcare system than if he/she has her own practice, a recent study found.
Medical errors are estimated to be the third-highest cause of death in the country. Experts and patient safety advocates are trying to change that. But at least one of the tools that's been considered a fix isn't yet working as well as it should, suggests a report released Thursday.
Healthcare CEOs are increasingly focused on business-level issues, a new report by The Advisory Board has found, as consumerism continues to reshape the industry.