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According to research done by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and published in the May issue of Medical Care, magnet hospitals have both lower patient mortality rates and better patient outcomes, due in part to more investments in nursing at these organizations.
University Hospitals, a healthcare system in northeast Ohio, has joined up with three smaller health systems in the state to create a new purchasing collaborative to save money on supplies and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivery.
Hospitals make more of a profit when surgical patients develop complications finds a new study published Wednesday in JAMA.
A recent study published in Health Affairs showed evidence that when a physician group's quality measures are publicly reported, they are more motivated to improve upon their overall care quality.
In the era of reform, healthcare providers will have to operate more like any other business by using the most efficient methods to deliver and pay for the most effective care, said a panel representing the banking industry and healthcare payers and providers during a business of healthcare session at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition last week. Electronic transactions offer an attractive solution.
Law firm Arent Fox has developed an innovative approach to speed up financing for pricey infrastructure and other capital-intensive projects for public and nonprofit institutions, including hospitals and some healthcare systems.
Athenahealth's More Disruption Please initiative may serve the company's bottom line, but it's heart is more subversive: to dismantle the healthcare system as it exists today. And the company is doing it one person at a time.
While Republican members of Congress have announced plans to once again use budget measures to attempt to defund key parts of health reform - including nearly $1 billion the Office of Management and Budget requested for CMS, which presumably would be used for the establishment and operation of state health insurance exchanges - their Republican counterparts who occupy state governors' mansions have begun to sing a different tune.
Across the country, hospitals and health systems are transitioning to accountable care organizations (ACOs). What does it take to do that?
Interview with Richard Baron, MD, President and CEO-elect, The American Board of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia