Health care related “apps” are all the rage, particularly on mobile devices. A report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics examines the current status of and issues related to Health Apps.
A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research explores the relationship between changes in Medicare reimbursement and private health plan provider payments.
Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine examines the link, if any, between hospital readmission rates after surgery and overall hospital quality for surgeries.
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that surveillance bias can undermine the validity of certain hospital quality measures.
All the attention focused on the problems with the health insurance exchanges created by the reform law has made for little scrutiny of other aspects of it, which are equally deserving of criticism.
Research published in Health Affairs suggests that the type of insurance a patient has may affect the quality of care they receive in a hospital.
A survey published in the JAMA Internal Medicine reports on hospital chief executive officer compensation revealing variable but large salaries at supposedly non-profit institutions.
The Health Care Cost Institute, a consortium of payer data sources, released its report on health care costs and utilization for 2012.
A survey of health care CEO severance packages reveals one reason why health spending may be growing too fast and this is just the tip of the iceberg on executive compensation.
Medicare reimbursement has been problematic for hospitals, as growth in payments has been very slow and in some cases, reduced. A study in Health Services Research looks at hospital responses to inadequate payments.