Care Coordination

  The operating room is the financial engine of most hospitals, and the feverish amount of merger and acquisition activity in the hospital industry holds great potential for improving the efficiency and profitability of ORs.

A three-year patient-centered medical home pilot program led to few quality gains and no reductions hospital utilization or total cost of care, a RAND Corporation study found.

Cigna has launched its first collaborative accountable care initiative in Arkansas with Springdale-based PremierCare Northwest, a provider-owned network and collaborative effort between physicians and Northwest Health System.

Healthcare's traditional fee-for-service payment system can create "large and often insurmountable barriers" to changes in patient care, such as avoiding unnecessary tests or providing treatment at earlier and lower-cost stages of disease.

UCSF Medical Center has partnered with Walgreen Co., the nation's largest drugstore chain, to open a pharmacy on the University of California, San Francisco's campus.

Four professional medical groups have released a set of guidelines to improve treatment for geriatric patients in the emergency department.

Raleigh, N.C.-based Axial Exchange and Chicago-based Becker's Hospital Review are collaborating to conduct the first National Patient Engagement Index to evaluate hospitals' patient engagement efforts.

Find out at Becker's 12th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference + The Business of Spine in a session by in2itive president Tracey Erbert.  

After two years of construction and renovation, the Detroit Medical Center Sinai-Grace Hospital has opened its $77 million emergency department.

Cartersville (Ga.) Medical Center has opened its $18 million expanded emergency department, according to a report by The Daily Tribune News.