Payment reform has the best chance of achieving quality improvements and cost reductions for the US healthcare system, and the federal government needs to align its public healthcare programs with innovations created in the private market, health insurers said.
One of the difficulties in extracting data from unstructured text, such as physicians' freeform notes, is what computer scientists call word-sense disambiguation. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present a new system for disambiguating the senses of words used in doctors' clinical notes.
GE Healthcare Systems has publicly commited to Cuyahoga County's medical mart in Ohio. The Cleveland Clinic today also announced it has signed on to the $465 million, taxpayer-financed project. GE Healthcare Systems will showcase products related to breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease and heart disease in an interactive display, while Cleveland clinic does not yet know how it will use the space.
The American College of Surgeons has removed the Level 1 trauma center at LSU's hospital in Shreveport from its list of facilities with resources needed to provide "optimal care of the injured patient." The College of Surgeons' decision came after a team of professionals surveyed the facility last fall and found continuing "deficiencies and weaknesses" in the trauma center's operations
Events like superstorm Sandy are hard to prepare for. New York University Langone Medical Center was forced to evacuate patients due to power outages during the peak of the storm. When it comes to preparing for a natural disaster like superstorm Sandy, hospitals drill for such evacuations and activate emergency command centers to manage any increase in patients.
No matter who wins the election, rising heath care costs will near certainly continue to be a financial burden for individual consumers and the federal government. Health insurers want to carve out a different role in Washington. They don?t want to be the bad guys anymore. Health insurance lobbyists are gearing up for post-election trips to Capitol Hill with data that argues that other healthcare sectors are actually the ones to blame.