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U.S. patients report inferior care
Not only are sick Americans facing serious financial problems from high healthcare costs (43 percent), but many are experiencing problems with healthcare quality, according to a new poll released yesterday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NPR and the Harvard School of Public Health.
AHRQ: EHR use must increase
Electronic health records should be adopted by more providers and by a wider range of provider types, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ's) latest health care quality
Physicians call for right to review public data
Physician groups want to make sure that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) take care in implementing its federally mandated data release program to ensure that the information
JAMA study: Isolated, rural hospitals have poorer quality
Despite efforts tying quality of care to provider reimbursements, a study published in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that critical access hospitals (CAHs) in
HFMA CEO: How to close the 'value gap' in care delivery
The CEO of the Healthcare Finance Management Association (HFMA) warned during the group's annual conference last week of a growing divide between delivering quality healthcare and what it costs to
Hospitals in U.S. territories have higher death rates, worse outcomes
As the nation works to overcome healthcare disparities, the U.S. territories are being left out of the discussion. As a result, hospitals in U.S. territories have significantly higher death rates and
National directory for hospital quality allows patients to shop around
Patients now have a consolidated site through which to compare a host of quality reports on your hospital. And hospital execs have one place to go to check out their competitors. It's the National
AHRQ: Healthcare quality improving, but disparities still exist
Improvements in healthcare quality inched up nationwide with a median change of 2.3 percent in 2010, but quality and access for minority and low-income groups remained "suboptimal" at the same time,
ACO conundrum: Market consolidation could push prices up
What can be done to prevent accountable care organizations from becoming monopolies that push prices up? That's a question government officials are wrestling with, the Fiscal Times reports. At least
AHA calls for changes to MLR rules
The American Hospital Association has asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a change in the final rules associated with new minimum medical-loss ratios required under the Patient
