The Illinois State Medical Society issued recommendations Monday for the Illinois House Task Force on the Heroin Crisis to help reduce the problem of "doctor shopping" for prescription opioids, which can lead to heroin use.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST Content focus: Examining Traits of successful joint ventures and pitfalls to avoid, with case studies from real life situations. Learner Objectives As an outcome of the webinar, participants will…
Value-based care is a buzzword in white papers and healthcare conferences. However, it is difficult to define and even harder to apply in practice. But with regulations requiring more focus on value-based care coming down the pipeline, providers and hospitals…
While smoking rates are declining in the U.S., many cases of lung cancer are going undiagnosed because patients no longer meet the screening requirements for low-dose CT scans, according to a study by Mayo Clinic researchers.
Two Buffalo, N.Y.-based healthcare organizations, Erie County Medical Center and Kaleida Health, agreed to team up with Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Medical Center on the "Full Circle Heart Care" project to improve cardiac care, especially for underserved populations in Niagara County,…
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Aetna and Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Medical Group announced Tuesday the launch of a new accountable care organization that will expand on an existing Medicare program.
Five Maryland health systems announced Tuesday an agreement to launch the Advanced Health Collaborative, an organization to support partners in achieving the triple aim: improved care, health and costs.
Across the U.S., 107 health systems — or 13 percent — offer health plans in at least one market, including commercial, Medicare Advantage or managed Medicaid. Of all states, Texas currently has 15 provider-led plans, the most of any state,…
Alaska residents had the highest well-being in the nation in 2014, according to a Gallup-Healthways survey. This is the first time the Alaska ranked first since Gallup and Healthways began tracking well-being in 2008.
Seven national medical specialty and physician organizations joined the American Bar Association and the American Public Health Association in declaring gun-related injuries a "public health crisis" in a recent editorial published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.