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Axial Aims To Give Power To The Patients

John Andrews | Healthcare IT News | January 21, 2014

There have been many ideas proposed as solutions for reducing costly hospital readmissions, but one concept that hasn’t gotten much attention over the years is patient empowerment – the practice of letting people take control of their healthcare. Read More »

Cloud-Based EMRs

Eric Gombrich | Executive Insight | April 25, 2013

The concept of patient-centered health is a growing theme in healthcare.  Terms such as "patient engagement," "patient-based" and even "patient-centric" are used ubiquitously as though they all mean the same thing and deliver benefits to both providers and patients. [...] But does patient-centered care actually activate patients to become more responsible for their health and wellness? Not quite, but EMRs are the start to that transformational model of care. Read More »

Costly Testing and Lifestyle are Increasing Health Care Costs

Shar Adams | The Epoch Times | May 29, 2012

Chronic disease and costly testing are two big contributors to health care costs in the United States, with many diseases being preventable and many medical tests being unnecessarily performed. Addressing both issues could produce much-needed savings, say health care professionals.

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Healing Meals

Liz Kowalczyk | The Boston Globe | June 10, 2013

Hospitals hope that sending healthful food to patients’ homes will keep them from coming back Read More »

Hospitals Try Yogurt To Prevent Infections In Patients

Laura Landro | Wall Street Journal | November 17, 2013

At Holy Redeemer Hospital in Meadowbrook, Pa., a worrisome trend emerged in 2011: an uptick in cases of one of the most virulent hospital infections, despite measures to battle the bug by scrubbing surfaces with bleach and isolating affected patients. Read More »

How Hospitals Are Changing

Kimberly Leonard | U.S. News & World Report | October 28, 2013

...The Affordable Care Act [ACA], cuts to Medicare, lack of Medicaid expansion in some states and hospital debts are contributing to transformations in hospitals. Read More »

Premium Article Law's Penalties Spur Dallas-Area Hospitals To Improve Care

Sherry Jacobson | Dallas Morning News | June 11, 2013

A million times a year, [patients suffering from congestive heart failure] are admitted to U.S. hospitals, stabilized and sent home. But it doesn’t last long. Almost a quarter of heart failure patients on Medicare are readmitted within 30 days, as sick as ever. But that’s about to change. Read More »

Progress In Health Care Is Still 'Excruciatingly Slow' Says Harvard Expert

Leah Binder | Forbes | February 20, 2014

I had the opportunity to interview one of the nation’s foremost experts on pay-for-performance and health care quality measurement, Harvard professor Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. His entertaining and insightful blog “An Ounce of Evidence“ tops my bookmarks.  He’s known in the business community for his forceful candor on the need for much more transparency and better payment systems in health care. [...] Read More »

Readmissions 'Drop Like A Rock' With Predictive Modeling

Scott Mace | HealthLeaders Media | October 8, 2013

Predictive modeling offers the key to understanding which healthcare services most affect utilization, readmissions, and payment, and how to tackle the outliers. These analytics are within the grasp of any healthcare system. Read More »

Ticking All The Boxes For A Health Care Upgrade At Strata Rx

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Strata | October 7, 2013

What is needed for successful reform of the health care system? Here’s what we all know: that a data-rich health care future is coming our way. And what it will look like, in large outlines. Health care reformers have learned that no single practice will improve the system. All of the following, which were discussed at O’Reilly’s recent Strata Rx conference, must fall in place. Read More »

VA Blazes Trail For Mobile Medical Technology

Joseph Conn | Modern Healthcare | January 17, 2014

One assumption made about big bureaucracies is they're Luddites, always behind the times. That's not exactly the case for the Veterans Health Administration, the healthcare arm of one of the largest federal bureaucracies, the Veterans Affairs Department. Read More »