Value-Based Payment’s Role in Addressing US Health Spending
Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy thought and research, today released a Considering Health Spending Research Brief describing the research linking value-based payment...
Implementing 30-day post discharge medication reconciliation using FHIR
The elderly and chronically ill patients are typically challenged with many drugs and complicated dosing regimens, often leading to medication errors. Medication errors are one...
Barcodes Are Us – The Health Care Blog
BY KIM BELLARD Usually I write about things where I see some unexpected parallel to healthcare, or something just amazed me, or outraged me (there...
Blue Cross transgender care lawsuit tests ACA anti-discrimination policy
A legal fight between a patient and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois could drastically increase third-party administrators’ potential liability under the Affordable Care...
Pennsylvania veterans’ homes need nurses and health care workers
Pennsylvanians who served their country are waiting for weeks or even months to get into one of the commonwealth’s homes for military veterans.About 1,500 former...
America, the intolerant – The Health Care Blog
BY ANISH KOKA Historically, the great tension between liberty and authority was between government as embodied by the ruling class and its subjects. Marauding barbarians...
Dr. Akram Boutros talks about MetroHealth ouster
Dr. Akram Boutros, who was ousted Monday night, Nov. 21, as CEO of MetroHealth due to what the system characterizes as abuses related to bonus...
It gets better – Healthcare Economist
Many studies (e.g., Okui 2020, Le Bon 2014, Blanchflower and Oswald 2009) have claimed that mental health exhibits a U...
Veterans Healthcare Company APN Publishes Results Of Study On Mental Health, More In Civilian Life
APN offers a variety of rehabilitative services to military veterans, in-person and digitally. Google Images In honor of Veteran’s Day this year, Colorado-based healthcare company...
A golden moment for telehealth depends on meeting the need for broadband
Imagine you had $14 billion, but you couldn't give it away. The Federal Communication Commission has a similar problem with a key broadband grant program...