As health systems increasingly work to take on responsibility for the health of a population, leaders must determine how to allocate resources to programs which have the most impact on the population’s health. While a community health needs assessment helps…
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TeleTracking has partnered with GOJO and the Hill-Rom Company to create a hand hygiene compliance service for hospitals and health systems.
High-risk patients within a patient-centered medical home model experienced lower costs and utilization rates, according to results of a three-year study published in The American Journal of Managed Care.
WellPoint, the nation's second-largest health insurer, and Emory Healthcare in Atlanta have agreed to partner on value-based reimbursement models and risk-based payments for elderly patients.
This month, Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Truven Health Analytics announced its consumer health cost transparency tool has reached 20 million consumers.
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Columbus, Ohio-based Health4 and Humana have announced a new accountable care agreement that will serve Humana's 41,000 Medicare Advantage members in central Ohio.
Experts will provide information on how hospitals, physician groups and other provider organizations can prepare to apply for the Medicare Shared Savings Program in a national provider call next month.
Dover, N.H.-based Wentworth-DouglasHospital and Southern New Hampshire Health System in Nashua have joined Concord (N.H.) Hospital and Manchester, N.H.-based Elliot Hospital in an accountable care organization.
What kind of patients show up in your emergency department? Leana Wen, MD, an emergency physician at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. has created a Slate-published categorization of the types of patients that, in her experience, show up in…
Florida Blue and Miami-based Baptist Health Quality Network have announced a new accountable care agreement.