Improving healthcare outcomes and increasing the accountability surrounding the provision of care are topics frequently mentioned in the popular press and legislation. Recently, I’ve begun assessing how…
Medication-related issues account for roughly 1.5 million adverse health events and cost $177 billion each year in the U.S. To help combat this, Congress passed the Medicare Prescription…
In doing some recent research regarding the latest innovations in decision support tools, I ran across a 2005 article published in the American College of Physicians. Their…
With the New Year fast approaching, and the start of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) fiscal year shortly behind us (it began October 1,…
