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Harvard Medical School's Center for Biomedical Informatics and healthcare benefits giant Aetna are forming a research collaborative to improve the quality and cost of healthcare.
Small business owners can find and compare health insurance plan choices with a new tool provided by the Health and Human Services Department.
As policymakers and employers struggle with the rising costs of healthcare, there's a direct solution to cutting healthcare costs while not sacrificing quality of care says the Institute for Women's Policy Research: paid sick days.
Occupy Healthcare, an offshoot movement of Occupy Wall Street, is not covered as much as its parent, even though it is united in effort and, unlike the better known movement, has clear demands.
If healthcare organizations are going to achieve reductions in medical errors, hospital-acquired infections and hospital readmissions, folks are going to have to work together and senior leadership at those organizations must engage patients and their families in the effort.
A collaborative effort among 53 Ohio hospitals resulted in a 48 percent reduction in central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in intensive care units over a 22-month period, saving lives and $4.6 million in healthcare costs.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced Tuesday that the Obama administration has decreased improper payments by $17.6 billion dollars in 2011.
Healthcare consulting firm Optum on Tuesday launched The Optum Institute for Sustainable Health, a research and applied policy group with the goal of increasing coordination of care, improving transparency and encouraging patient engagement.
Patients are looking for doctors who will check up on them and offer guidance between office visits says a new report, "A Fragile Nation in Poor Health," a look at why patients don't follow their doctors' treatment plans and what solutions are available to the healthcare community.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched the Health Care Innovation Challenge, which will award $1 billion in grants in March to test inventive and compelling methods to deliver high quality medical care at lower costs to individuals enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.