Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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J-Co recognizes first medical home

AltaMed Health Services in Los Angeles is the first organization to earn a primary care medical home (PCMH) designation for Joint Commission-accredited ambulatory care organizations.

FDA outlines regulatory science strategic plan

The FDA recently released its strategic plan for advancing regulatory science, including its intent to enhance the process for developing and evaluating new products and materials from fields such as cell therapy, tissue engineering, genomics, personalized medicine, advanced computing and IT. The August publication, titled Advancing Regulatory Science at FDA, outlines its priorities.

Study: Telemedicine cuts down on patient travel time

New research published in August in BMC Health Services Research provides insight into potential travel reductions by leveraging telemedicine by patients and healthcare providers.

White House pumps money into rural health jobs

President Barack Obama announced new job initiatives recommended by the White House Rural Council for growing the economy and creating jobs in rural America this week at the White House Rural Economic Forum.

AEM: Urban EDs 14x more likely to adopt CPOE

Health IT adoption varies by state and urbanicity, with less computerized provider order entry (CPOE) in rural emergency departments (EDs), according to research published in the August edition of Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Conflicting reform decisions further confuse constitutionality

In the hot-bed of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) legal arena, two appeals court decisions were filed on Aug. 12 indicating the fractious nature of the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision.

AMGA: 70% of specialists see small bump in 2010 salaries

Many providers continue to operate at a significant loss, and although nearly 70 percent of specialties saw increases in compensation in 2010, increases were marginal, according to the American Medical Group Associations (AMGA) 2011 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey.

Rep. Ellmers requests HHS study health IT, medical errors

Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) recently sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, requesting that HHS study the benefits of health IT and its cost effectiveness, with a focus on medical error rates.

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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