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Current EMRs May Be More Helpful With Billing Than Care CoordinationA gap appears to exist between policymakers' expectations of commercial electronic medical records in supporting care coordination and the way they are actually used by providers and clinicians in the healthcare environment, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, DC. [ Read More]
CMS Asks Providers: How Are We Doing?CMS has launched its fifth annual healthcare provider satisfaction survey of the Medicare fee for service contractors that process and pay more than $370 billion in Medicare claims each year. The Medicare Contractor Provider Satisfaction Survey offers Medicare FFS providers an opportunity to give CMS feedback on their satisfaction, attitudes, perceptions, and opinions about the services provided by their respective contractor. [ Read More]
Healthcare Spending Growth Slowed in 2008, But Still Outpaced GDP, Says CMSHealthcare spending in the United States grew 4.4% in 2008, to $2.3 trillion or $7,681 per person, the slowest rate of growth since the federal government started officially tracking expenditures in 1960, CMS has reported. Even with the slower growth, however, healthcare spending continued to outpace overall economic growth, which grew by 2.6% in 2008 as measured by the Gross Domestic Product. [ Read More]
VA, Kaiser Permanente Unveil Project to Exchange Patient Data ElectronicallyThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente have launched a pilot project in the San Diego area that they say will let them exchange, with a patient's permission, electronic health record data about health issues, medications, and allergies for the first time. The project is using the Nationwide Health Information Network, which provides a technological gateway to support interoperability standards and permits the secure exchange of health information between treating physicians, when authorized by a patient. [ Read More]
Breakthroughs: Aligning Hospitals and Physicians Toward ValueThe current relationship between hospitals and physicians has been built around rewarding for volume of services and not quality. That model is breaking down as reformers in Washington have hospital and physician inefficiency in their sights, with Medicare pushing toward value-based purchasing and experimenting with a payment system that rewards a system of coordinated care. In this HealthLeaders Media Breakthroughs report that you can download for free, four leading hospital systems—Gundersen Lutheran Health System, Sanford Health-MeritCare, SSM Health Care, and Virginia Mason Medical Center—share the lessons they have learned about adding quality to healthcare. [ Read More]
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20 People Who Make Healthcare Better
| The very essence of healthcare is to make a difference for good. In our annual HealthLeaders 20, we offer profiles of some who are doing just that. [Read More] |
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Emerging Service Lines
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Hospitals that lead the way in emerging service lines may find themselves positioned to be market leaders in the future. Here's a look at which services are emerging and why. [Read More] |
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Leaders Forum
Evaluating and Addressing the Need for an Effective EMPI: HealthLeaders Media contributors Lots Pook and Barbara Manor share the blueprint Exempla Healthcare used to evaluate master patient index solutions, including the system specifications and ROI metrics it evaluated to justify the cost of an enterprise solution. [Read More]
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