The Commonwealth Fund recently launched the National Task Force on the Future Role of Employers in the U.S. Health System. In 2025, the task force will release a blueprint of actionable recommendations on how employers can improve their coverage.
In just 2020, deaths from gun violence cost the U.S. healthcare system $290 million, or about $6,400 per patient, according to a report from the Commonwealth Fund. These costs are mostly covered by Medicaid and other government insurance programs.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Of people who were found inadequately insured, 9% were uninsured, 11% had a period without coverage over the past year and 23% had coverage all year but were underinsured, the Commonwealth Fund report showed.
A growing number of patients with private coverage are underinsured, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund.
A review of The Commonwealth Fund‘s top five reports of 2014 offers some important clues on how to address quality of care issues on a local regional and international level. A report that placed the US healthcare system dead last behind Canada and nine European countries emerged as the top publication on the Commonwealth Fund’s […]
For the past several years, scores of physicians and health systems have bemoaned the mandate of EHRs, taking issue not necessarily with the concept of EHRs as a whole but with the additional workloads that often came with them and the clunkiness of operating them. It can often detract from actual face time with a […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
A Commonwealth Report evaluating 11 countries’ health systems put the U.S. dead last for the fifth time since the report has been published. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally, used criteria such as quality, efficiency and access to care to reach its conclusion. But it […]
A Commonwealth Fund report had some good news and bad news to impart on electronic medical record adoption by physician practices and a rather stark subtext for the solo physician practices that haven’t yet given up paper records for EMR. On the positive side, from 2009 to 2012 the rate of adoption of EMR by […]