This Week's Healthcare Online News
Med City News
Strong evidence that hospital CEOs’ bonuses are standing in the way of healthcare
June,17,2013
by+Jay Hancock
Like hospital leaders everywhere, the people running Valley Medical Center in Renton, Wash., talk frequently about the need to control soaring medical costs.
"We are working to reduce the overall cost of health care and to transform health care delivery," Lisa Jensen, chairwoman of the hospital's board of trustees, said last year.
Experts believe that's a good prescription for the entire U.S. health industry, which costs the economy far more than systems in other developed countries, delivers mediocre results and is widely seen as unsustainable at its current growth rate.
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Search Health IT
SearchHealthIT original infographic: Federal health IT activity
June,14,2013
by:+Emily Huizenga
From electronic health records (EHRs), health information exchange, ICD-10 conversion, meaningful use mandates to data privacy and security regulations, healthcare organizations are slowly, but surely, making headway in implementing many different initiatives. The opening months of 2013 saw the federal government offer providers a number of resources to ease the strain of new technology and workflow adoption, as well as implementing legislative measures to keep IT leaders accountable to policy
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Fierce Health IT
State-level data governance efforts 'shaky at best'
June,13,2013
By:+Dan Bowman
State level governance efforts for storing and exchanging citizen data--including health information--are "shaky at best," according to Chad Grant, a senior policy analyst with the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.
Grant (pictured), who spoke at the Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, was touting the results of a collaborative study published this week by NASCIO and HIMSS on the health IT landscape in the states. Overall, 80 percent of responding state CIOs said they had no data governance structure in place at all.
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ModernHealtcare.com
Study details patients' financial burden from unexpected out-of-network costs
June,14,2013
by:+Beth Kutscher
Patients shoulder a significant financial impact when they unwittingly go out of network for care—which can happen during inpatient stays when they discover that not every member of their medical team takes their insurance.
As the CMS releases more data about what hospitals charge for common procedures—and hospital retort that the charges are only list prices—a new study attempts to answer the question of what patients actually pay.
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