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5 cost-cutting healthcare trends to watch
Perhaps more than ever, hospitals and health systems are closely examining their pocketbooks and ways to reduce spending. Trends to keep an eye on are consolidation, more efforts to cut readmissions,
Orszag: Ration care, overhaul tort to control costs
Peter R. Orszag, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget and a key architect of the financial contours of the Accountable Care Act, told an audience at the Healthcare Financial
Government should play smaller role in comparative effectiveness research
Every day, physicians, patients and insurers must decide what is the best treatment for a particular ailment. To help healthcare providers and payers make informed decisions about how to treat
Med schools, Cedars-Sinai test wireless monitoring to reduce readmissions
Five University of California medical schools plus Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles will study how wireless technologies and telephone care management can reduce the number of hospital
Less-publicized changes in the new health overhaul law that take effect soon
Lesser-known provisions of the new healthcare reform law could help build support in the run-up to the contentious mid-term elections, according to Kaiser Health News. Here are some of the changes
Many patients not on board with evidence-based healthcare, survey finds
Doctors and other health experts who have been charged with trying to convince the general population to take a more active role in their healthcare decision-making are doubtless facing an uphill
Meaningful use of EMRs might be the 'Trojan Horse' of real health reform
I've complained plenty in this space over healthcare reform really only being insurance reform, though I did talk in a recent FierceHealthIT column about some nuggets of true reform contained in the
Health reform targets patient-centered outcomes
Health reform has provided a significant boost to comparative effectiveness research, but experts are split on how much such research can rein in costs unless healthcare providers have incentives to
Blumenthal says docs eventually 'will all support EHRs'
Returning to the 2004 roots of the national health IT coordinator's role as cheerleader-in-chief for EHRs, Dr. David Blumenthal took advantage of a public speech last week to say that EHRs will
Muddying the waters on Medicare fraud
Increasingly, as federal efforts to cut down on excess Medicare spending get more frantic, the line between outright fraud (billing to shoe people who had their feet amputated) and administrative
