Quality and Safety
Although highly touted, the patient-centered medical home model failed to lower use of services or total costs and produced little quality improvement over three years, research in the latest Journal of the American Medical Association has found.
Since the recession first began in 2008, hospitals and health systems have continually seen a drop in inpatient volumes. Most industry experts say they expect more of the same for the rest of 2014 and even the next five years or so.
Medicare accountable care organizations are having varying rates of success in addressing their patients' diabetes and heart disease, according to government data released Friday.
In its third year as a Pioneer ACO, Montefiore Care Management has seen a 10 percent reduction in inpatient admissions, a 35 percent reduction in all-cause readmissions and a 45 percent reduction in diabetes inpatient admissions.
A new study from Stanford University has turned the concept of patient dumping on its head. It finds that hospitals are less likely to transfer critically injured patients to trauma centers if they have health insurance.
As a healthcare consumer, am I most interested in short-term complications and readmission rates or am I interested in getting cured of whatever I have? The recent hullabaloo over narrow networks and whether a more expensive hospital is worth it or not seems to miss the bigger point.
By thoroughly assessing security risks, it's much easier to get the funding you need to strengthen your data protection program.
Like many businesses faced with a transforming industry, hospital operators are working on ways to evolve into new models while bringing in revenue.
Security events in U.S. hospitals cost an estimated $1.6 billion each year. Nearly one of every five hospitals experiences a security breach, with the bill averaging $810,000 per breach.
A new study of insurance claims at 110 hospitals found that facilities with the highest prices tended to have the strongest reputations and tight holds on their local markets yet showed little evidence of providing better quality care.