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NewsAMA: Hospitals must focus on reducing outpatient errors
Although hospitals are ramping up efforts to report and prevent medical errors, the increased emphasis on the safety of inpatients has left outpatient data lacking, according to an American Medical Read more...
Inpatient, outpatient healthcare costs have doubled in nine years
Medical inflation is at its most moderate levels in years, but the cost of hospital inpatient and outpatient care continues to outpace the costs of other sector components, according to a new report Read more...
Diabetes costs high for children
It is hugely expensive to care for a child with diabetes, according to new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The annual average medical costs for a child with diabetes is Read more...
Follow up lacking on a majority of hospital tests
Follows up on patient tests is often poor, according to a review of international studies, an article published in BMJ Quality and Safety reports. Up to 61 percent of inpatient test results and 75 Read more...
Giving 'super-utilizers' more care can lower medical costs
Is it possible to lower medical costs by giving complex patients better care? That's what Dr. Atul Gawande set out to learn in a recent article published in the New Yorker. Anecdotal evidence Read more...
Outpatient market is booming
Hospitals that want a bigger share of high-growth markets are investing in outpatient services, often in suburbs to bring services to the places where fully insured patients who can pay their bills Read more...
Preventable hospital stays more common for older patients
As healthcare costs spiral out of control, inpatient hospital stays for chronic or acute conditions that could have been handled on an outpatient basis continue to be an area ripe for cost cutting. Read more...
Hospital will turn away non-resident poor
Yet another public hospital will deny care to poor people to save money. Hennepin County Medical Center, Minnesota's largest public hospital, will stop giving nonemergency care to uninsured, Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Small practices can't afford quality improvements
While it's all well and good to shoot for improved quality, many medical practices simply don't have the means to adopt new technologies or change their operations, according to a new report issued Read more...
Study: Hospitals spent $30B on avoidable admissions in '06
A new federal report suggests that in 2006, hospitals spent $30.8 billion on 4.4 million hospital admissions that might have been avoidable. The report, which was compiled by the Agency for Read more...
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