Quality and Safety
Aetna and the Connecticut State Medical Society Independent Practice Association have announced a collaborative care model that will incorporate more than 500 CSMS-IPA physicians.
A new report prepared for the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System offers a series of recommendations to help shore up the finances of safety-net hospitals and promote their ability to provide high-quality care to low-income, vulnerable patients once the health reform law is fully implemented.
The trend of MRI and ultrasound being used together for more effective diagnosis is cited as a major reason for growth in sales of both modalities, according to a recent report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.
As the United States and Canada emerged from the Great Recession, charitable pledges to nonprofit healthcare organizations slowed in fiscal year 2010, jeopardizing the ability of healthcare systems in both countries to generate philanthropic funding necessary to meet their long-term, construction, equipment and patient needs.
A new whitepaper from the Center for Progressive Reform says medical tort reform won't provide significant savings, since the costs of malpractice insurance and paying injured patients amounts to only 0.3 percent of total healthcare costs each year.
The search for the best cancer therapy for individual patients pushed the personalized medicine market above $28 billion last year.
When asked to choose a healthcare provider based only on cost, consumers choose the more expensive option, according to a new study funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that appears in the March issue of Health Affairs.
A new report from IT solutions firm CDW Healthcare finds that 84 percent of doctors and nurses feel patient care is improved by using healthcare information technologies. The company says HIT can also lower care costs.
Hackensack University Health Network and the North Shore-LIJ Health System announced Monday an agreement to establish a strategic alliance.
A new study published in the March issue of Health Affairs shows that doctors who have computer access to patients' test results in an ambulatory care setting are more likely to order imaging and lab tests.