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Discussing benefits and risks of low-value diagnostic testing via head CT scan with patients can reduce the prevalence of such testing.
The insurance industry will remain but the traditional PPO is beginning to come to an end as costs are outstripping inflation and wages, CEO says.
Shinji Yamamoto, director of the St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Japan, says he made small, incremental changes to overcome resistance to moving from paper to digital systems.
In total, Affordable Care Act insurers in a class action lawsuit will receive over $1.5 billion in damages from 2017 and 2018.
Mergers and acquisitions helped grow revenue but it's taking health systems longer to realize expected synergies.
Optum calls the study's conclusions "misleading" as health systems use many data elements other than cost to select patients for clinical engagement.
The five-year-old Illinois company offers digital health content middleware in the form of APIs used by Microsoft, MDLive and others.
Two JHS employees allegedly accessed patient information without a clear job-related purpose.
By law, patients own their own data, but access and understanding what's in the record is not user friendly.
Among the gaps for both types of facilities are a lack of best practices for patient care and inadequate monitoring of board certifications.