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Category: Workforce
Docs Spend Too Much Time Behind a Computer
For years, the US has worked toward fully integrating electronic health records (EHRs) into healthcare systems in order to improve outcomes, quality of care, and cost-effectiveness, otherwise known as the Triple Aim. However, from physicians’ anecdotal experiences with EHRs, they Continue Reading …
Is the PCMH Movement the Solution?
The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) has been lauded as an innovative approach to improvements in the healthcare system that include reducing cost of care, improving quality of care and the patient experience, and reducing instability in the primary care workforce. Continue Reading …
Home Visits Help the Elderly
A mixed methods study explored the effectiveness of five different home visiting programs on reducing hospitalizations, ED visits, and expenditures among Medicare beneficiaries. These programs use care teams comprised of registered nurses or lay health workers as lead staff on Continue Reading …
When Physicians Get a Free Lunch, Who Pays?
When patients fill a prescription from their physicians, they implicitly trust that the prescribed drug was chosen with their best interests in mind. Patients assume that medical expertise decided which patient would benefit most from which drug. However, a recent Continue Reading …
Incentives for ACOs Outweigh Meaningful Use
Of the initiatives the federal government has launched in an effort to advance quality, encourage efficiency, and reduce the cost of health care, the (ACO) model continues to succeed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ authorization to disburse incentive Continue Reading …
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