Quality and Safety
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are supposed to control costs and improve quality under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Everyone seems to be maneuvering toward creating or participating in an ACO, even if no one is quite sure what exactly they will be.
The Institute of Medicine Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care opened its first meeting Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Practice Greenhealth has launched a study on the impact of sustainability "best practices" on patient and worker outcomes and lowering costs.
The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, a nonprofit organization comprised of 60 medical groups and six health plans in Minnesota and surrounding states, will use decision support technology to help ensure patients only receive medically appropriate diagnostic imaging tests.
The California HealthCare Foundation has launched a $10 million investment fund focusing on nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies with innovative services and devices that might significantly reduce costs and improve access to care in California.
Last week's arrest of a French doctor for leaking information about a clinical trial to a hedge fund is disturbing, but the alleged activity is neither new nor particularly rare.
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham, Pa., has announced a partnership with Philadelphia-based InstaMed to offer healthcare providers payment assurance through InstaMed's healthcare payments platform.
Many hospitals are receiving recovery audit contractor (RAC) denials based on physicians' documentation of major complications and/or co-morbidities (MCCs) and complications and/or co-morbidities (CCs).
Janet Estep is president and CEO of NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association, a not-for-profit trade association that oversees the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network, one of the largest electronic payments networks in the world. Estep recently took time from here schedule to discuss how NACHA can support the healthcare industry’s efforts to create an effective electronic claims and payment system
Dr. Benn Kosynski, PhD, from Emory University is a fascinating professor. His work has pretty much defined “inter-organizational systems” or IOS over the past two decades.