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Prescribe Cheaper Drugs, British Doctors Told
Doctors who unnecessarily prescribe expensive branded drugs to patients when cheaper alternatives are available are facing a crackdown as [Britain's] NHS attempts to reduce its annual £8bn family medicine bill. Read More »
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Price Transparency Could Lower Costs In The ED
Price transparency can educate emergency department providers about the cost to patients when they undergo procedures--and, as a result, help hospitals address inefficiencies that drive up costs, conclude researchers from the University of California, San Francisco. Read More »
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Private Insurers Have Cost Medicare $282.6 Billion In Excess Payments Since 1985
Researchers say privately run Medicare Advantage plans have undermined traditional Medicare’s fiscal health and taken a heavy toll on taxpayers, seniors and the U.S. economy Read More »
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Public Medical Labs Could Save Canada $250 Million A Year: Study
The Canadian health care system could save a quarter of its billion-dollar annual spending on lab tests if for-profit labs no longer did them, a new study suggests. Read More »
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Q&A: Moving From A PCMH To A 'Medical Neighborhood' Via Direct
Sharing medical records between different vendors' EHRs is one of the meaningful use Stage 2 measures that some folks would like to see yanked – but not MedAllies' Holly Miller, MD, or John Blair, MD. Read More »
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Ransford Health To Offer NexJ Connected Wellness To American Accountable Care Organizations
NexJ Systems Inc. (TSX: NXJ), a provider of cloud-based software delivering enterprise solutions to the financial services, insurance, and healthcare industries, today announced that Ransford Health will begin offering NexJ Connected Wellness to Healthcare Systems and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as part of its efforts to help them realize shared savings and improved outcomes through patient activation. Read More »
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Re-Imagining How We Provide And Govern Health Care Using Open Data
Earlier this week, entrepreneurs, data scientists, doctors, health IT innovators, and representatives from Washington gathered for the 4th Annual Health Datapalooza Conference in Washington DC. What started 4 years ago as a 45 person gathering, now attracts almost 2000 participants... Read More »
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Reducing Hospital Readmissions Using Data Science And A Social Twist
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center uses patient's social setting to improve adherence Read More »
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Rep. Peters Introduces Health Savings Through Technology Act
Today, Congressman Scott Peters (CA-52) introduced H.R. 3577, the ‘Health Savings Through Technology Act,’ which advocates for a smarter way to deliver health care in the United States – through the increased use of wireless technologies – to help bend the health care cost curve. [...] Read More »
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Report Urges Feds To Push Open-Source Solutions
While there have been successes and failures in the deployment of open-source health information technology by federally supported safety net healthcare organizations, the federal government could and should do more to ensure more frequent successes, according to an HHS-funded report. Read More »
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Return On Information: A Standard Model For Assessing Institutional Return On Electronic Health Records
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Robotic Surgery Opens Up
If the open-source approach to building robot surgeons can cut costs and improve performance, patients will increasingly find them at the other end of the scalpel Read More »
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Scorecard Reveals Wide Disparities in Care Across the Country
Healthcare access, cost, quality and outcomes can vary greatly from one community to the next, both within states and across states, depending on the performance of the healthcare system available to residents, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Read More »
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Seven Ways For Health Services Research To Lead Health System Change
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act now at hand — and with it, the formation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) — health services research (HSR) has an especially important role to play. As ACOs take steps that will substantially change health care delivery, the ability to measure and improve health system performance and acquire this data efficiently will be in greater demand. Is HSR up to the challenge? Read More »
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Short-Sighted Conservative Gloating On Obamacare
Truth be told, some of the more interesting writing on the travails of the Obamacare enrollment system is coming from conservative Ross Douthat of the New York Times. On Sunday, he warned Republicans that their cackling over the enrollment mess was obscuring the realization that the Medicaid single-payer element of the Affordable Care Act was functioning better than the private insurance part of the insurance expansion... Read More »
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