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Clinical Care
Diagnostic Errors, Managing Patient Data Top ECRI's Patient Safety List Again
A new report from the nonprofit patient safety organization pinpoints risks from EHRs, mobile health, behavioral health, clinician burnout, and...
Clinical Care
Racial Differences Persist for Bariatric Surgery Outcomes
Complication rates are lower for white patients when compared with black patients.
Clinical Care
IBM Watson Health Names Top 100 Hospitals
The 2019 study finds top-performing U.S. hospitals provide better care at lower cost and higher profit margins than peers.
Clinical Care
Changes Afoot for Kidney Disease Payment in Medicare
HHS Secretary Alex Azar tells the annual Kidney Patient Summit that his department wants to encourage more transplants and home...
Finance
This Time When My Water Breaks, Take Me To A Hospital Without Surprise Bills
Researchers sought to determine how pregnant women who dealt with surprise medical bills from their first delivery approached decisions about...
Strategy
Cleveland Clinic's 5-Year Plan Looks to Double Number of Patients
The health system served more than 2 million patients in 2018, the highest annual total in its history, but CEO...
Clinical Care
Listening To Older Patients Who Want To Stop Dialysis
Older adults with advanced kidney disease who want to forgo dialysis often encounter resistance from physicians, who observers suggest are...
Finance
Hospitals Give Congress 8-Point Checklist for 'Surprise Bills' Legislation
The joint letter comes two months after major payer groups outlined a framework of their own, as the industry debates...
Innovation
Achieving Scale: How a Single Text Transformed Into an App Deployed Across an Enterprise
Developers of EASE share how they scaled their innovation at Orlando Health.
Clinical Care
Trump Plan To Beat HIV Hits Rough Road In Rural America
Health officials and doctors treating patients with HIV welcome extra funding but say strategies that work in progressive cities like...
Innovation
6 Ways to Hone Your Innovation Approach
Health 2.0 Executive Vice President and co-founder Indu Subaiya provides perspectives on the way innovation will impact health systems.
Innovation
Fitbit Shows Length-of-Stay Benefits in Every 100 Steps After Surgery
For every 100 steps taken the day after surgery, up to 1,000 steps, Cedars-Sinai researchers found that patients decreased their...