AI revolutionizes hospital procurement services
AI can process hundreds of thousands of products or contracts in one business day or less—an achievement that would take years if it was a manual task.
Where’s the value in accountable care?
Accountable care is supposed to be about paying for value. But six years after passage of the Affordable Care Act heralded the shift away from fee-for-service, Dr. Greg Carroll, corporate clinical leader of GOHealth Urgent Care, has an important question: "Where's the value?"
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Medicare rewards hundreds of lower-cost hospitals despite poor quality
The 231 hospitals the study identified had below average scores on quality measures but were awarded the bonuses because caring for their patients during their stays and in the 30 days following their discharge cost Medicare less than what it cost at half of hospitals evaluated in the program.
MACRA proposal shifts EHR, quality reporting from Meaningful Use to care support
Notably, the proposed rule would remove some of the most hated elements of Meaningful Use, including the pass-fail nature of reporting on EHR and quality measures. It also calls for reducing the number of EHR measures from 18 to 11 and eliminating reporting on clinical decision support and CPOE.
While you were eating, CMS updated Medicare quality strategy
Right on cue, an HHS agency dropped some news just as everyone was taking off for a long weekend. This time, the CMS waited until just before Thanksgiving to update its strategy for moving away from fee-for-service payments.
Interactive Chart: Bonuses and penalties For U.S. hospitals
Medicare has two payment incentive programs for hospitals that are part of an effort to make them accountable on quality. One gives bonuses and penalties to hospitals based on how well they performed on 24 quality measures. That program is called Value...
Using Data to Help Healthcare Practices Succeed
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.