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NewsLeaders from CIGNA, Dartmouth-Hitchcock share about their ACO success
Dick Salmon
Accountable care delivery seems to be on everyone's radar, but many healthcare leaders are scratching their heads over the many details involved in this coordinated care Read more...
Johns Hopkins, Walgreens collaborate to improve chronic care
Johns Hopkins Medicine has entered a partnership with Walgreens to improve outcomes of patients with chronic diseases, as well as collaborate on population-based research, the companies announced Read more...
CMS to fund $100M in Medicaid grants to encourage healthy living
CMS will distribute $100 million in new Medicaid grants to states to help run preventive medicine programs. The grants, mandated by the Affordable Care Act, will offer Medicaid enrollees incentives Read more...
CDC debunks myths about the uninsured
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has debunked two long-held assumptions used by opponents of expanded health insurance coverage under the healthcare reform. First, the Read more...
Home health could prevail over facility-based care
Although healthcare has been concentrated in hospitals, clinics and other facilities over the past century, a Cleveland Clinic physician, Dr. Steven Landers, believes home healthcare is where the Read more...
Docs should help patients understand bevy of 'medical' info available on Internet
Patients often turn to the Internet to obtain information about virtually any medical condition these days. But it's often of dubious fact or too clinical for laypersons to understand, making Read more...
'Frequent fliers' cost health system billions
Frequent readmissions are never a good thing for a hospital's reputation, but they happen nonetheless. Usually elderly, and chronically ill, their care accounts for 75 percent of healthcare spending, Read more...
SC group establishes quality trust
A group of healthcare organizations--including the South Carolina Hospital Association, Health Sciences South Carolina and Premier Healthcare Alliance--are coming together to study methods for Read more...
Children 10 to 19 not receiving adequate care
A report released by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine says that children between the ages of 10 and 19 are not receiving adequate medical care. Specifically, their care Read more...
Study: More than half of insureds on chronic-care meds
A new study suggests that for the first time, more than half of insured Americans are regularly taking prescriptions for chronic health problems. The most popular drugs include those used to lower Read more...
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