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03/01/2014

Red-flagging and eliminating inefficiencies to improve patient flow may go a long way toward relieving the looming shortage of clinicians in the primary care workforce.

 

03/01/2014

After a procedure doctors said was extremely safe, something went terribly wrong. An otherwise alert and healthy patient isn’t better, and in fact, she’s a lot worse. She’s in a coma, or she may die, or at best spend months in intensive care.

03/01/2014

Accountable care organizations (ACO) aim to completely revamp how healthcare is delivered in the United States, promising better quality and lower costs. But physicians who have heard these promises before are wondering if ACOs are just the new version of HMOs, the same lofty concept dressed up in a new way.

03/01/2014

New research suggests that healthcare costs may decrease when hospitals and medical groups agree to an ACO with even one insurer, but the quality of care may stay the same.

03/01/2014

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that there is great potential for significant healthcare cost reductions when physicians know the up-front cost of ordering routine lab tests.

03/01/2014

Nearly one in five patients with a history of cigarette smoking who is diagnosed with lung cancer with recommended CT screening don’t have a clinically significant disease and are overdiagnosed. But scientists don’t yet have any way of knowing which ones.

02/27/2014
CMS has shared some details during the HIMSS 2014 conference about the recently announced ICD-10 end-to-end testing.
02/24/2014
Highlights from HIMSS include CMS' confirmation that the Oct. 1 transition date to ICD-10 is firm.
02/24/2014
Aligned financial incentives, targeted care for the chronically ill and a 25- to 30-year investment in wellness are part of a health care paradigm shift envisioned by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini, the first keynote speaker of the HIMSS14 conference.
02/24/2014
What makes this HIMSS different? I'm not sure, but it is. The energy, the people who are here, the volume of press releases in my inbox. It is different.

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