Population Health

Many hospitals are still not meeting national performance targets when it comes to the quality of maternity care, according to a new study from the Leapfrog Group.

Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan is poised to become the latest proton therapy center in the United States having recently scored a Proteus One Gantry system that precisely directs cancer-killing proton beams at tumors.

(SPONSORED) The advent of population health presents challenges and opportunities to payers.

Starting June 9, terminally ill Californians with six months or less to live can request a doctor's prescription for medications intended to end their lives peacefully.

These errors cause 250,000 deaths per year, falling behind cancer and the number one killer, heart disease, according to Johns Hopkins' researchers, Martin Makary and Michael Daniel in the report published Tuesday in the medical journal, The BMJ.

ACO Partner takes on upfront costs of services and technology for physician practices, other providers to transform to value-based payments.

The study measures how many people were hospitalized between 2002 and 2012 because they were abusing heroin or prescription painkillers, and how many of them got serious infections related to their drug use. It also tracks what hospitals charged to treat those patients and how the hospitals were paid.

By and large, population health measurement efforts are poorly developed and uncoordinated - and without effective measurement, success will remain elusive.

The company's departure could be felt most acutely in several counties in Florida, Oklahoma, Kansas, North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee that could be left with only one insurer, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The absence of more stores like CVS that are easily accessible to people in impoverished, predominantly black neighborhoods underscores Baltimore's other persistent inequities.