The “outcomes-driven” strategy for the rest of this decade is focused on key goals: boosting access to electronic health information, improving the patient experience by prioritizing health equity and modernizing public health infrastructure. Powered by WPeMatico
In healthcare, larger hospitals, all critical access hospitals, essential drug manufacturers and Class II and Class III devices would fall under the draft mandatory reporting rules, but health IT developers and others would not. Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — It was the second week of 2015, and instead of joining my medical student peers in our first week of clinical year, I was racing north on I-95 from New York with my mom. Her older sister was in the intensive care unit in a hospital… Powered by WPeMatico
Washington, Maryland and New Mexico have leveraged funding opportunities and regulatory tools to ease the burden on providers still struggling to operate with claims payments disrupted. Powered by WPeMatico
The accomplishment puts the health system in a better position to attract and retain the talent that is so critical to its ability to serve its patients, says its VP of operations. Powered by WPeMatico
Because a high-risk flag had been inactivated in the hospital’s new Oracle electronic health record, clinicians did not evaluate a veteran’s mental health and medication restart request, contributing to an overdose seven weeks after a missed appointment. Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — Nearly 1 in 3 adults will be diagnosed with depression in their lifetimes — often marked by a nearly out-of-body level of disorientation. We lose our ability to think clearly, to emote normally — even our very sense of… Powered by WPeMatico
Those with Medicare may pay a lower coinsurance for some Part B drugs if the drug’s price increases faster than the rate of inflation. Powered by WPeMatico
