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Integrated care cuts hospital admissions by a fifth
Integrated care can cut hospital admissions for elderly patients by at least one-fifth, according to a new report from RAND Europe, Ernst & Young, University of Cambridge and the Nuffield Trust.
Study: Physician mergers, private networks won't hurt HIEs
Public community and state health information exchanges (HIEs) will still be useful even if physicians and other providers to merge into larger, more private networks. That's the conclusion of a new
Retail clinics increase ten-fold, health systems capitalize on trend
With retail clinics increasing ten-fold, more health systems and hospitals are capitalizing on the trend and getting in on the retail movement. Between 2007 and 2009, retail medical clinics at
Health plan consolidation leads to lower hospital prices
Markets concentrated with health plans actually lead to lower hospital prices, according to Rand Corporation researchers. Hospitals face less competition with health plans than insurers do with
White House rebuffs report that employers will drop health plans
White House officials are rejecting a McKinsey & Co. report that found some employers will likely stop offering health insurance to their employees after the health reform law is in effect.
High-deductible plans linked to fewer preventive services
High-deductible health plans are significantly decreasing healthcare spending, but they are also linked to patients cutting back on preventive healthcare services--such as childhood immunizations,
Patient experience: New incentives needed to improve physician interactions
Since 2006, some 117 physician groups in the Bay State have been provided with detailed reports on their patient experience performance from Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, the organization
More coverage for less cost not 'politically feasible', health reform study indicates
Options existed for health reform that could have either lowered federal spending by $20 billion per year without decreasing the number of newly insured citizens or increased coverage to 4 million
Pay-for-performance programs can cause gaps in quality of coverage for obese, minority patients
Worsened care for minorities, as well as the obese and poorer people, could be an unintended consequence of physician pay-for-performance (P4P) systems unless they're adjusted to account for case
Study supports link between improved patient safety and reduced malpractice claims
New research from the RAND Corporation indicates that bolstering patient safety efforts doesn't just benefit patients, but physicians and hospitals as well, by combating malpractice litigation.
