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Adeptus Health Inc. has appointed Ricardo Martinez, M.D. their new Chief Medical Officer. The large-scale operator of free-standing emergency rooms made the announcement Friday.
Jaewon Ryu, M.D., J.D., of Humana will join the Geisinger Health System as executive vice president and chief medical officer at the end of September, Geisinger has announced.
So far, their partnership includes four Sutter Health hospitals and two Alameda Health System hospitals. Since the program began on March 31, Alta Bates and Highland Hospitals have learned that they shared more than 2,000 patients, and over a third of them made six or more ER visits in the past year.
IBM Watson Health has formed a medical imaging collaborative with more than 15 leading healthcare organizations. The goal: To take on some of the most deadly diseases.
Spending for practices such as chiropractic, yoga and meditation represents 9.2 percent of all out-of-pocket spending on healthcare.
In 2013, aggregate hospital costs for 35.6 million hospital stays totaled more than $381 billion.
The United States is on track to spend $2.6 trillion less on healthcare between 2014 and 2019 compared to initial projections made right after the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act.
The average global cost of data breach per every lost or stolen record is $158. Healthcare organizations, however, had an average cost of $355 per record, according to the new survey conducted by Ponemon.
Two-thirds of businesses, including organizations in the healthcare industry, wait until a cybersecurity attack before they engage a security vendor or a managed security services provider, according to a recent Ponemon study commissioned by government contractor Raytheon Foreground Security.
Despite the ongoing shift from fee-for-service to a value-based care model, a significant number providers are resistant to implementing alternative payment methods even though revenue cycle management continues to be a critical aspect of a provider's health, says a new Peer60 report.