By Sarianne Gruber – A statistician by training, Elizabeth Stuart, PhD is a professor of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in the age of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), her research on developing and applying methods to estimate causal effects is a hot button topic.
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By David McCready – There is a growing interest among many hospitals to migrate toward alternative service delivery models referred to as “service lines.” The concept with clinical service lines is to shift the hospital’s care delivery model from the traditional specialty silos to a more horizontal organizational structure.
The HFMA MAP Event took place in Ft. Lauderdale and included the Women’s Leadership Conference – “here”. Check out these highlights like Revenue Cycle’s top 10 issues including telemedicine, need for evidence-based best practices, and shifting from volume to value.
By Sarianne Gruber – How effective is diagnosis in healthcare? Constantine Gatsonis PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Brown University, has been asking this question for over twenty years with diagnostic imaging studies.
By Matt Fisher – National Health IT Week was a busy time with regard to government announcements. First, the final rule for Meaningful Use Stage 3 and Modifications was released and second, on the same day, the OIG released a reminder about information blocking concerns.
By Ashish Jha – In July the investigative journalists at ProPublica released an analysis of 17,000 surgeons and their complication rates. Known as the “Surgeon Scorecard,” it set off a firestorm. In the months following, the primary objections to the scorecard have become clearer and were best distilled in a terrific piece by Lisa Rosenbaum.
The U.S. spent more per person on health care than 12 other high-income nations in 2013, while seeing the lowest life expectancy and some of the worst health outcomes among this group, according to a Commonwealth Fund report.
The AMA took a significant step toward its goal of accelerating digital medicine into clinic practice with the foundational meeting of an AMA-sponsored workgroup charged with facilitating the integration of the latest technological advances in telehealth services into the Current Procedural Terminology code set.
By Jordan Rau – Medicare’s quality incentive program for hospitals, which provides bonuses and penalties based on performance, has not led to demonstrated improvements in its first three years, according to a federal report released October 1, 2015.