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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released two healthcare reports last Friday showing that overall in the years 2002 through 2008, quality, access and disparities in healthcare for most racial and ethnic groups improved minimally, if at all.
The forecast for the Medicare program remains the same as last year, with the program expected to remain solvent until 2024. But the program's solvency depends on several financial and political assumptions that are unpredictable.
Recently, Capital District Physicians' Health Plan (CDPHP) out of Albany, N.Y., and WellTok, Inc. announced the roll out of CafeWell, a social health management network that's focused on improving the health of individuals and populations, to all of CDPHP's 350,000 members throughout New York.
According to a new Commonwealth Fund study, one in four working-age U.S. adults experienced a gap in health insurance coverage during 2011, in many cases because they lost or changed jobs.
The American College of Physicians (ACP) and Consumer Reports announced a patient education collaboration on April 19 at Internal Medicine 2012 in New Orleans.
Thirty-three healthcare facilities in six states won recognition Wednesday from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association for cutting their energy consumption by more than 10 percent.
According to a report released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services, patients with Medicare are starting to save money on durable medical equipment (DME) through the Medicare competitive bidding program.
In a step towards enhancing the patient experience while simultaneously improving collection rates, Midland Memorial Hospital recently began offering CarePayment, an innovative patient loyalty and payment program, to help its patients cover out-of-pocket medical expenses by letting them pay back bills over a period of time.
Eight children's hospitals across Ohio are finding that collaboration has improved overall care quality, and they are now spreading their findings to 25 other children's hospitals nationwide this year.
Thomson Reuters released its 19th-annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance.