Patient Engagement

Legislation also would require the nation's first minimum nurse-to patient staffing ratios in observation care units.

Intermountain Healthcare study conducted at 27 team-based medical practices and 75 traditional practices revealed that delivering integrated mental and physical healthcare in team-based primary care settings yields better results for patients and also reduces the rates healthcare utilization and lowers cost.

SPOT facility, professionals offer safe place to ride out high, seek new start for treatment.

Responding to pressure from lawmakers and the public, Mylan Pharmaceutical is expanding existing programs to make its EpiPen emergency allergy treatments more affordable.

State officials do not quibble about where Georgia ranks and note that the numbers have risen since 2010. And they vow to do something about it.

Lawmakers are imploring Mylan Pharmaceutical, the manufacturer of EpiPens, to scale back price increases that have seen the cost of the life-saving emergency allergy treatment swell from $100 to $600 per package, according to published reports.

If the poorest areas utilized healthcare at the rate of the most affluent, overall utilization and spending could be as much as 30 percent less, according to a new book published by the late Richard Cooper, MD.

New research suggests a path forward that could save money while also improving patients' health.

Geriatric ERs have the potential to lower health care costs as staff can more carefully discern who needs to be admitted and who can be cared for outside of hospital walls. That tends to reduce hospitalizations among the elderly.

Many people don't know about sepsis. Meanwhile, health care providers struggle to identify it early.