Quality and Safety
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced Tuesday that the Obama administration has decreased improper payments by $17.6 billion dollars in 2011.
Hospitals are expanding services, supplies and staff training programs to meet the needs of morbidly obese patients, according to a new report from healthcare supply contracting company Novation.
Cancer is expensive — the American Cancer Society estimates that the 2010 total cost of cancer in the U.S. soared to $263.8 billion. These costs can drive people to financial ruin.
PwC's Health Research Institute has predicted the top 10 issues facing healthcare in 2012. Insurance exchanges, consumer trepidation, drug shortages and the need for organizations to prove value promise to be among the hallmarks of a 'seminal' year.
Healthcare consulting firm Optum on Tuesday launched The Optum Institute for Sustainable Health, a research and applied policy group with the goal of increasing coordination of care, improving transparency and encouraging patient engagement.
Patients are looking for doctors who will check up on them and offer guidance between office visits says a new report, "A Fragile Nation in Poor Health," a look at why patients don't follow their doctors' treatment plans and what solutions are available to the healthcare community.
Forty percent of every dollar spent on healthcare is wasted or spent on preventable complications, said Karen Feinstein, president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, to an audience at the Maine Health Management Coalition on Nov. 10.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched the Health Care Innovation Challenge, which will award $1 billion in grants in March to test inventive and compelling methods to deliver high quality medical care at lower costs to individuals enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
In healthcare, one-size-fits-all doesn't have to be the national model for holding down costs and offering high quality care said speakers at "Building a World-Class System: Better Business, Better Health."
As healthcare reform focuses on holding providers accountable for patient outcomes, how do providers engage their patients to adopt better self-care behaviors?