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Coordination, value-based payment didn't save Medicare dollars

Efforts to cut Medicare spending and improve care quality have largely failed, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). After two decades of trying to shift toward Read more...

Provider-payer collaboration reduces costs by up to 30%

Collaborative efforts between healthcare providers, health insurers and employers are eliminating wasteful and unnecessary healthcare costs, while improving the quality of care. For instance, in Read more...

Lean Six Sigma, care coordination heals fragmented hospital

Under healthcare reform, a new trend of care coordination management is developing across hospitals, primary care provider offices, home health agencies, and patients' homes. Hospitals are taking a Read more...

Transitional hospital team cuts stroke risk by two thirds

In another win for transitional care, a study published in the November issue of the European Journal of Neurology found that having a special hospital team coordinate care for "mini-stroke" patients Read more...

Hospitals, nursing homes see readmissions drop with transitional care

With reimbursements on the line, hospitals are looking to improve their readmission rates. Hospitals, along with nursing facilities, across the country are using transitional care to keep patients Read more...

CMS recruits innovative providers, execs to improve care delivery

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday launched its Innovation Advisors program, looking to recruit up to 200 healthcare professionals to research and implement new models Read more...

Hospital readmission rates stagnant

Despite national efforts to cut down on readmissions, hospitals only made minor progress in reducing costly readmissions over a five-year period ending in 2009, regardless of why patients were Read more...

Leading hospitals forgo managed care, burdened by requirements

To balance their cash-strapped budgets and prepare for an additional 16 million Medicaid enrollees under health reform, states are turning to managed care, hoping it will improve care coordination Read more...

Hospital ACO model saved $400k, cut readmissions

Do accountable care organizations (ACOs) produce better patient outcomes? That's still up for debate in the hotly contested issue with some supporting coordinated care and others slamming the Read more...

Successful information sharing fosters ACOs

Although cautiously hopeful, healthcare leaders say that successful health information exchange can prompt equally successful infrastructure for accountable care organizations (ACOs), according to a Read more...

Press Releases

MedAllies' Holly Miller, MD, MBA, FHIMSS, to Deliver Keynote Address at Delaware Valley HIMSS Meeting

Miller will present key learnings from MedAllies' Direct HISP Solution that helps providers improve care using diverse EHR systems FISHKILL, N.Y., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By Read more >>

Greenway Selects Dell for Cloud-based Hosting of PrimeSUITE EHR

Physician Practice Customers Provided Secure and Scalable Clinical, Practice Management and Data Sharing Care Coordination through Dell Services DeploymentCARROLLTON, Ga., Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ Read more >>

PFCD Briefing Spotlights Health Information Technology in Managing Chronic Diseases, Cutting Health Care Costs

Greenway Elevates Patient Data Intelligence With PrimeDATACLOUD

Break-Through Platform Employs Cloud Technology to Deliver Improved Care Coordination, Analytics, Quality Reporting and Outcomes ManagementCARROLLTON, Ga., Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenway Read more >>

ABILITY Network to Demonstrate the Direct Project at the ONC Annual Meeting

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ABILITY Network Inc™, the nation’s largest and most secure web-based health network, announced today that they have been invited to participate at the Office of the Read more >>