Quality and Safety
Beacon IPA, a one-year-old Long Island-based physician network consisting of almost 200 healthcare practitioners, has announced a three-year contract with Empire BlueCross BlueShield aimed at finding new ways to enhance the overall quality, efficiency and safety of clinical care and reduce costs.
A new study by researchers at Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and CVS Caremark has found that 45 percent of people who provide care to a family member are more likely to neglect their own prescription medications than they are to neglect medication for the person for whom they are caring.
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and national drugstore chain Walgreens have entered into a wide-ranging agreement designed to promote collaboration on population-based research and develop protocols to improve outcomes of patients with chronic diseases.
Based on its model of managing chronic illness and proactive health management, Healthstat has been selected by Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield to manage an on-site health clinic for employees and dependents covered under its health benefit plan.
Aetna and P4 Healthcare, a division of Cardinal Health, have announced an expansion of its evidence-based program to improve care by identifying and promoting best practices in the treatment of certain types of cancer.
A study in The Archives of Internal Medicine has listed the top five activities in family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics where the quality of care could be improved and costs of care could be reduced.
The Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minn., and the Altru Health System of North Dakota have announced a new alliance.
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has announced a $241 million settlement - the largest recovery in the history of the state's False Claims Act - with Quest Diagnostics to recover illegal overcharges to the state's medical program for the poor.
HealthGrades has identified what it calls three major flaws in a recent study published in the Archives of Surgery that says the so-called '50 best hospital' list "falls short."
A study released earlier this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that medical professionals are concerned about bias from commercial funding of continuing medical education – but they aren't willing to pay more money for CME if commercial funding is curtailed or eliminated.