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NewsRetail clinics increase ten-fold, health systems capitalize on trend
With retail clinics increasing ten-fold, more health systems and hospitals are capitalizing on the trend and getting in on the retail movement. Between 2007 and 2009, retail medical clinics at Read more...
More coverage for less cost not 'politically feasible', health reform study indicates
Options existed for health reform that could have either lowered federal spending by $20 billion per year without decreasing the number of newly insured citizens or increased coverage to 4 million Read more...
Pay-for-performance programs can cause gaps in quality of coverage for obese, minority patients
Worsened care for minorities, as well as the obese and poorer people, could be an unintended consequence of physician pay-for-performance (P4P) systems unless they're adjusted to account for case Read more...
Study supports link between improved patient safety and reduced malpractice claims
New research from the RAND Corporation indicates that bolstering patient safety efforts doesn't just benefit patients, but physicians and hospitals as well, by combating malpractice litigation. Read more...
Medical societies cheer over flaws found in physician rating programs
"Physician ratings conducted by insurers can be wrong up to two-thirds of the time for some groups of physicians," concluded a RAND Corporation study published in today's New England Journal of Read more...
Tobacco settlement to fund healthcare in Washington, DC
It's been ten years since Washington, DC was awarded $245 million--its share of the tobacco industry's 1998 historical class action settlement with the states. Rand Corp. has produced a report to Read more...
Obesity costs US employers $45 billion a year
According to an article in the New York Times, research published by the Conference Board and RTI International found that obesity costs U.S. employers an estimated $45 billion annually, but few Read more...
| Press ReleasesIntegrated Healthcare Association Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant to Design Performance Based Contracting ProOAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) has been awarded an 18-month, $281,000 grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to facilitate development of a Read more >> BridgeHealth Launches Early Indicators: Enables Employers and Health Plans to Forecast and Control Costs for Major SurgeriDENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BridgeHealth Medical, Inc. today announces the launch of Early Indicators, a revolutionary product that allows employers to identify through a HIPAA-compliant data transfer Read more >> |
