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Internet long-term care placement services are the cyberspace era's quick fix solution for many Americans seeking non-nursing home institutional care for their aging parents or relatives. But their expertise in navigating this bewildering world of assisted living is, at best, a hit-or-miss proposition.
With training, hospital emergency department staff members can enhance their skills in pain and symptom management and improve their communication skills.
Kaiser Permanente's George Halvorson says that despite the complexity of ACO regs, some versions have the potential to save money and improve care.
Medicare payments soon will partly reflect patient satisfaction, so hospitals are seeking advice from the entertainment kingdom.
Supporters hope the nonprofit co-ops will increase competition and cut prices.
A new study by the AARP estimates that for the more than 40 million Americans caring for an elderly or disabled loved one, the value of their work is $450 billion a year.
Health reform raises deep questions about the size and scope of government, about progressive taxation, about the individual mandate and more. It's easy to forget that cost control will be a huge challenge, no matter how these ideological matters are resolved. Finding the right combination of humanity and restraint will be particularly hard in addressing life-threatening or life-ending illness.
Alan D. Aviles, the longest serving president of the nation's largest municipal health system, discusses his efforts to stabilize HHC's finances in the face of dramatic budgetary challenges -- including the health law's reduction in special funding for safety net hospitals and state efforts to reduce Medicaid costs.
Video: Like many physicians across the country, Cleveland doctor Conrad Lindes is worried about one of the government's latest overhauls to the medical system: digitizing health care. He believes the government is forcing doctors to make a change to electronic medical records before they -- and the technology -- are ready.
Despite carrots and sticks from the federal government, some physicians are leery about moving to electronic health records.
Federal officials had hoped a multitude of doctors and hospitals would adopt electronic health records in 2011. But, in reality, the number of physicians using EHRs won't likely move beyond the current 20 percent to 25 percent rate. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Some experts fear that the cuts could lead to rise in number of doctors who refuse to take Medicaid patients.
This letter was written in response to Jordan Rau's story, Concerns About Costs Rise With Hopices' Use, which was published by Kaiser Health News and the New York Times on June 27.
Large health insurers are trying to curb rising costs by gaining control over those who provide care: doctors.
New rules limiting the shifts first-year medical residents can work in hospitals take effect today, but they won't end the debate over the pros and cons of 24-hour workdays.
Two experts want to change hospital care in a way that may well rank as both the most commonsensical and most hopeless health reform proposal ever.
Although safety measures are often directed at hospitals, experts say physicians' offices and urgent care centers should get more scrutiny since the bulk of medical care is delivered there.
Although the benefit is intended for patients who have no more than six months to live, 19 percent now receive hospice services for longer.
Experts thought simple steps, such as marking the surgical site and taking a timeout to confirm the details, would end the problem. But it turns out to be more complicated to change the culture of hospitals and doctors.
For health reform to truly take root, we should take our cue from the millions of low-income Californians who have the most at stake
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