Taiwan has a single payment insurance system and pay-for-performance, but the challenges of interoperability and measuring outcomes remain, says Dr. I-Rue Lai, vice superintendent at National Taiwan University Hospital.
The U.S. healthcare system could stand to save more than $1.1 trillion over the next 30 years while preventing roughly 15 million heart attacks if pharmacists were more involved in treating hypertension, according to research from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Moody’s Investors Service has revised its 2024 outlook for the not for profit and public healthcare sector to stable from negative, driven in large part by a decrease in labor costs.
Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham are collaborating on the health system’s acute hospital care at home program called Mass General Brigham’s Home Hospital. This technology-enabled clinical delivery model will expand access to Massachusetts residents choosing to receive acute-level hospital care at home.
Those seeking work in the healthcare industry would do well to look to New England: According to a new analysis from Tebra, New Hampshire has the most healthcare job listings per capita, followed by Maine and Massachusetts. Rounding out the top 10, in descending order, are North Dakota, Vermont, Alaska, Pennsylvania, Montana, Connecticut and West […]
People with Medicare Advantage tend to have stronger health outcomes than those with fee-for-service Medicare, seeing fewer hospitalizations and readmissions, according to research published by Inovalon. Using its unique data assets and analytics to look at a broad range of quality measures across care settings, the research shows that patients enrolling in MA realize substantially […]