Roughly two weeks after the unexpected decision to end inpatient care at Nashville (Tenn.) General Hospital, Nashville Mayor Megan Barry announced the creation of a multidisciplinary team to help craft a formal proposal regarding the future of the hospital, according…
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Population health management is a crucial competency for healthcare providers to improve care quality and lower costs. However, many hospitals nationwide still struggle to implement successful population health initiatives and deliver high-value care, according to Carl Couch, MD, CMO of…
Approximately 6,600 patients (6 percent) in Alaska accounted for $148 million in the state's emergency department spending in 2016, according to a report from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Division of Public Health.
As rates of diabetes and urbanization rise together, advances in medicine will not be enough to slow the spread of the disease, but instead, cities will have to make concerted population health efforts, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen writes in an op-ed…
A nurse at University Hospital in Newark, N.J., was stabbed Sunday evening just outside of the hospital's emergency department, according to WABC-TV.
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Emergency room physicians are uncovering a pattern behind spikes in ER visits during holidays, according to a Business Insider report.
Gouverneur (N.Y.) Hospital is completing a $2.3 million renovation project that nearly doubles the size of its emergency room, according to a Watertown Daily Times report.
Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, Calif., has set up a tent to expand its waiting area due to a recent surge in emergency department patients, according to a Valley Voice report.
Has population health finally arrived? Yes and no. Population Health Management (PHM), like artificial intelligence and precision medicine, is a massive, investment-intensive work-in-progress—and very auspicious in that it has the potential to forever change the way we deliver (and receive)…
Of the 50 busiest airports in the world, 23 prohibit smoking in all indoor areas, according to the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.