Ten U.S. health systems have been identified by Thomson Reuters as performing at the top when it comes to quality of care, efficiency and patient satisfaction – metrics that are boosted with the use of information technology. Thomson Reuters released its third annual study Wednesday identifying the 10 top: Advocate Health Care* ― Oak Brook, IL Cape Cod Healthcare ― Hyannis, MA CareGroup Healthcare System ― Boston, MA Kettering Health [...]
Health plan executives say their three major challenges are figuring out how to deal with healthcare reform, the health insurance industry’s systemic shift from wholesale to retail business and bending the cost curve. Resolving the challenges will require health plans to shift their focus from group to individual sales, identify and test new behavior predictors and shorten the timeline of product development. The findings were part of a session about [...]
The Obama administration on Friday said it would stop granting new waivers to the health-care overhaul in September following sharp opposition from Republicans who cited the waivers in their bid to undermine the law. As of the end of May, the administration had granted 1,433 waivers to a part of the 2010 law that prevents employers and other health-plan providers from capping annual benefit payouts below $750,000 a year. Those [...]
Physicians understand the potential of health information technology to help improve patient care, and doctors are willing to work with the federal government through incentive programs designed to encourage more practices to go paperless. But the government went too far when designing the punitive side of some of these incentives, tying penalties to burdensome, unfair and even unrealistic mandates on many of the practices that are trying to work toward [...]
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