Patient Engagement
Injuries that brought a patient to the emergency room were most likely to have involved steps or stairs, according to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a resource maintained by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. According to their recent data, which concerned the year 2014, 1.14 million trips to the ER involved the common household fixture.
A new report from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care reveals significant variation in payments in Colorado for hip and knee replacements between private health insurance payers and Medicare: Coloradans with private insurance in the northeast pay $55,000 more than their neighbors with Medicare, while those in Denver pay $17,000 over Medicare prices.
In Baltimore's poorer neighborhoods, where problems are plentiful and solutions scarce, Total Health Care strives to correct disparities in access and treatment long faced by people who struggle to get by.
West Coast retail clinic operator Zoom+ on Monday opened its 32nd facility, as the provider of on-demand healthcare continues to grow amid surging interest in retail healthcare.
In a recent study, Truven Health Analytics found more than a $10,000 price variation in bundled spending for knee and hip replacement, depending on geography.
DignityHealth next month will break ground on one of four small hospitals in Las Vegas, part of a plan to bring more care to underserved neighborhoods of the famous desert city.
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed new rules on patient record disclosures to ensure substance use disorder patients can participate in new integrated healthcare models without risk of having their records shared inappropriately.
Physicians need to have and share analytical information to deliver quality care that drives down costs. But too often valuable findings aren't making it to the right people, according to Deloitte's Dorrie Guest.
As part of the development of four new operating rooms, the University of Michigan Health System announced Monday that it will become one of the first hospitals in the country to integrate new neurosurgical imaging equipment called BrightMatter.
Six hospitals in the North Carolina-based Vidant Health system will join Winston-Salem's Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Telestroke Network by the end of the year, Wake Forest Baptist announced in a statement Wednesday.