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Category: Quality
EHR’s & Physician Productivity
A majority of doctors are dissatisfied with EHRs citing productivity losses. But a new study debunks their feelings. The revolution in health information technology (HIT) holds the promise of improving patient care. Since the passage of the Health Information Technology Continue Reading …
The ACA Coverage Gap & Health Disparities
Lack of access to health insurance has long been recognized as a critical barrier to health care and a key driver of health and health care disparities. While the Affordable Care Act was envisioned as a comprehensive solution to the challenge of uninsurance among impoverished and low-income populations in the United States, variable state-level participation in the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, in the wake of the June 2012 Supreme Court decision, has created the unanticipated reality of a continued insurance gap for many of the most vulnerable. Continue Reading …
P4P bonuses don’t necessarily improve quality
Yet another study fails to provide evidence that pay-for-performance yields additional quality improvement. Pay-for-performance (P4P) continues as one of multiple experimental policies aimed at improving health care quality. Many studies of varying merit have scrutinized numerous aspects of P4P, but Continue Reading …
Sensitivity to malpractice
Many argue that physicians that are more concerned about malpractice are also more likely to engage in defensive medicine. The argument extends that defensive medicine contributes to rising health care costs. A recent article attempts to analyze this issue. The Continue Reading …
Medicaid: Equal yet Unequal
Time spent and interventions conducted for Medicaid and private patients are similar; yet outcomes are not. Critics of , particularly state leaders who have chosen not to expand Medicaid, argue that Medicaid provides a lower quality of care through a Continue Reading …
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