Risk Management
However, Medicare Trustees said the 2028 date is 11 years longer than they projected in 2009 before the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Seventy-four percent of primary care physicians and emergency room doctors do not feel their healthcare facility or practice is taking effective steps to address and prevent burnout, according to a new survey by healthcare-centric market intelligence firm InCrowd.
The average global cost of data breach per every lost or stolen record is $158. Healthcare organizations, however, had an average cost of $355 per record, according to the new survey conducted by Ponemon.
Two-thirds of businesses, including organizations in the healthcare industry, wait until a cybersecurity attack before they engage a security vendor or a managed security services provider, according to a recent Ponemon study commissioned by government contractor Raytheon Foreground Security.
Over the last few years, the healthcare industry has had its consciousness raised over hacking and cybercriminals, as cybersecurity has been thrust into the spotlight - especially with the recent surge in ransomware attacks, according to Paula E. Litt, a partner with and the leader of the insurance recovery and advisory practice group at Honigman Business Law Firm.
Support for women's health care, along with family planning resources, has been dramatically scaled back, in part because of funding restrictions placed on women's clinics that, in addition to other services, provide abortions. Also, both states declined to expand Medicaid. Those decisions, many advocates say, are putting a squeeze on the health care system's ability to educate women about Zika's risks and minimize its impact.
Doctors responding to the survey are worried they will not have the technology, capital or staffing to survive.
The joint enterprise has been successful beyond anyone's expectations, according to Russ Mohawk, president and CEO of Health Plans and Population Health Services for the Inova Health System.
Disruptive innovation and the consumer experience are two themes that are emerging for this year's America's Health Insurance Plans Institute & Expo opening Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Twenty percent of reporting hospitals lack a policy that conforms to all of the criteria in the Leapfrog group's standard for preventable hospital errors dubbed "never events" the nonprofit agency has found in a newly released report.