Quality and Safety
Since joining the Premier healthcare alliance last year, Edward Hospital & Health Services has saved $3.5 million while improving clinical quality and patient safety.
Home-based care management company Univita Health has acquired HME and DME provider All-Med Services of Florida, in a deal that adds more than 1 million patient lives to Univita's book of business.
When Wes Bledsoe the co-founder of Oklahoma City-based citizen’s advocacy group, A Perfect Cause, gets into heated discussions about allowing sex offenders to reside in nursing homes, he is not above using shock value to get his point across. “Put them in day care centers with children,” he says.
The recently released report, "The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information: A Business Case for Enhanced PHI Security," highlights the need for organizations to adopt a new method to evaluate the value of PHI, said the leaders of the PHI Project. Along with a five-step method featured in the report, six additional findings help stakeholders understand the influences behind finances and breached PHI.
Common surgeries for workplace injuries generally cost less in states that have adopted per-procedure fee schedules, versus states that don’t use fee schedules, according to a recent report by a Massachusetts-based industry research group.
A new PwC report on clinical informatics shows the key to those benefits is for providers to use informatics to engage patients in managing their own health.
Americans’ inability to understand health information and navigate their way through the complex healthcare system leads to preventable hospitalizations, greater use of emergency care and reduced overall health status, says a paper in the February issue of Health Affairs.
Mayo Clinic reported a solid performance in 2011 on Feb. 23 and shared plans for growth in services and programs to meet the needs of tomorrow's patients in new and different ways.
StrategicplanningMD, a leading provider of strategic planning software to healthcare organizations, announced Wednesday that the Idaho Hospital Association has adopted its web-based technology platform.
A remote monitoring program implemented by Geisinger Health Plan using interactive voice response (IVR) and other telemonitoring technology to aid case managers has shown a 44 percent reduction in hospital readmissions, the company announced recently.