Person-Centered HealthCare: Can Patient-Centered Care Reduce Hospital Readmissions?
Photo:Hospital/shutterstockA new Press Ganey white paper highlights an association between HCAHPS performance -- patient experience scores -- and lower rates of readmission. (Performance Insights - The Relationship Between HCAHPS…
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In the Event of a Heart Attack, LIFENET Can Save Lives
If you are having signs of a heart attack – chest discomfort or pain, perhaps with pain or discomfort in other parts of the upper body; shortness of breath; a…
HealthPocket: The Kayak of Health Insurance
The audio for this podcast can be accessed here.David Williams: This is David E. Williams, cofounder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog. I’m speaking today with…
Organizations Slowly Considering Greater Scrutiny of Aging Physicians’ Practice
Would you attend a 101-year old physician? Should there be a mandatory retirement age for physicians? While that question itself is a little ridiculous, there really has never been careful…
Michael Seres, UK ePatient Helps Crowd-Fund Patient Scholarships
Michael Seres is reaching out to the world from the UK. And for now he’s reaching out to help fund patient scholarship travel to Doctors 2.0 & You.Doctors 2.0: So,…
A Caregiver’s Guide to Navagating the Healthcare System
When you or I take on the care of a loved one, we can expect to learn all kinds of new skills and tasks. One of these will be to…
Why Massachusetts Can Afford Universal Health Insurance
Health insurance in Massachusetts is more expensive than anywhere else in the country and yet the state is able to afford universal coverage. How can that be? An important part…
Is Fee-For-Service Really Dead?
The 21st century challenge for the American health care delivery system is to deliver higher quality care for less money. Republican and Democratic experts agree that payment reform involving transitioning from…
Georgia’s Proposed Telemedicine Rule
Last Thursday, the Georgia Composite Medical Board took up its proposed telemedicine rule, one that would definitely limit telemedicine in that state.As written, it would stifle the use of the technology by nurse…
