Quality and Safety
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a new demonstration project that will continue the push to keep patients with chronic conditions in their homes rather than place them in long-term care facilities.
Health insurer WellPoint announced this week that it will work with the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute to help provide clinical expertise as it develops healthcare capabilities for IBM's Watson.
Colorado, Minnesota, Oregon and Pennsylvania will take part in the National Governors Association's collaborative to address chronic disease prevention. Chronic disease is a major contributor to rising healthcare costs, accounting for 84 percent of U.S. healthcare spending.
With the cost of medically unnecessary care estimated to be in the billions of dollars, a new campaign is setting out to change the medical profession's and society's usage of healthcare.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the 32 health systems that will participate in the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program, which government officials say could save Medicare as much as $1.1 billion.
More than half of health system and insurance executives recently surveyed by KPMG, law firm Epstein Becker Green and The JHD Group indicated they are still undecided about whether their organizations will participate in the Medicare ACO program.
High hospital readmission rates among Medicare patients are closely tied to higher overall hospital admission rates, according to a study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Three of the top six most significant data breaches of 2011 took place in the healthcare industry says the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer protection and advocacy organization.
As President Barack Obama noted Thursday when introducing proposed regulations for minimum wage and overtime protection for home healthcare workers, the home healthcare workforce is the largest and fastest growing in the country. A new analysis finds that required training for some of these workers has gone largely unchanged in almost 25 years.
The proportion of Americans reporting problems affording prescription drugs remained level between 2007 and 2010, with more than one in eight going without a prescribed drug in 2010, according to a national study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change. Despite the flat numbers, the news isn't necessarily good.