Quality and Safety
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) yesterday announced that medical practices found to be above average in its annual performance survey excelled in four distinct management categories.
India's largest drug manufacturer, Ranbaxy Laboratories and its U.S. subsidiary, Ranbaxy Inc., and the U.S. Justice Department, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration have reached an agreement over allegations that the company was selling potentially unsafe drugs in the United States.
Never underestimate the impact one change can have in a given healthcare setting. Take, for example, a change implemented at Maury Regional Medical Center.
For the past several decades, the U.S. healthcare system has rewarded the provision of high-volume, specialized patient care—and, as a result, we have seen costs skyrocket and our collective health suffer.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is offering $14 million in grants to support research to build a scientific evidence base for effective public reporting.
HealthGrades, a provider of consumer healthcare information, today released a list of America's top cities for hospital care.
A great deal of attention has been directed by hospitals and health systems to the evolution of the accountable care organization (ACO) initiative.
The Ohio Department of Public Health and the year-old Governor's Office of Health Transformation (OHT) announced Wednesday that the state will invest $1 million to help primary care practices transition to a patient-centered medical home model.
For the last five months, members of an independent organization established by the Affordable Care Act have been developing a national priorities agenda that may transform medical care and save healthcare dollars. The first draft of that agenda will become available for public comment beginning Monday.
Most of the Medicare fee-for-service demonstration projects launched in the past two decades using disease management and value-based payments have failed to reduce costs, says a report issued yesterday by the Congressional Budget Office.