By Robert Rowley & David Harlow – The lack of coordinated delivery of healthcare is widespread in this country. It might even be called the norm. Most people in the U.S. receive their care in a disjointed way, where each clinician, and each facility, has her/his own system.
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Memorial Hospital, a 97-bed community hospital in Marysville, Ohio, uses strategies from AHRQ’s Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) toolkit to help newly discharged patients follow their treatment plans and improve their health in order to avoid readmission to the hospital.
By Karen B. DeSalvo & Brandon McBride – In late 2011, the President announced a White House Rural Council initiative lead by the HHS and USDA to invest in rural health and link rural doctors and hospitals to financing for health IT. The initiative was designed to address the need for financing to support the adoption of health IT systems in rural communities.
By Sarianne Gruber – High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) essentially shift financial accountability to consumers. Based on recent statistics, there has been a ten-fold increase in the past 7 years of people having insurance coverage with these programs.
At a ceremony in his office, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation to establish a fully functional All-Payer Claims Database (APCD), which will give consumers, providers and employers important new information to understand the quality and affordability of health care in Washington.
The healthcare industry’s billing and payment system is a horse-and-buggy in a world contemplating driverless cars. Consumers, shouldering higher costs, are frustrated by the system, which still largely relies on paper and telephone calls for billing and payment.
By John Halamka MD – The first part of this week I have been in China – Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Xuzhou as part of a Harvard Medical School program to help the Chinese create a learning healthcare system while they build 1000 new hospitals and train 300,000 new primary care givers.
CMS issued a proposed rule to update fiscal year (FY) 2016 Medicare payment policies and rates under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS).
By Sarianne Gruber – Smart Insights, a provider of specialized information on the secured transactions industry, and brings the latest information on the mHealth industry in their April 2015 white paper, “mHealth Market in the US at a Glance”.