Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

Managed Care May 2003	Employer Coalition Leaps at Challenge of Grappling With Misaligned Incentives The executive director of the Leapfrog Group says that the organization pleads guilty to trying to create 'aspirational' standards for health care.
CIO November 1, 2000 Susannah Patton	The Rx Files Hospitals are prescribing healthy doses of IT to divert costly and sometimes fatal medication errors...
Managed Care December 2004 Adler & Schukman	The Role of Managed Care In Patient Safety & Error Reduction Patient safety and medical errors have become the focus of increasing attention from the public, policymakers, and accreditation agencies. Managed care organizations clearly are important stakeholders in this issue.
Managed Care January 2002 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Peter Lee The head of the Pacific Business Group on Health says the coming trend in care will be patients making informed decisions before they get sick...
Managed Care July 2001 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Lucien L. Leape, M.D. The way to reduce errors in health care is to change systems, says this Harvard educator. Punishment encourages people to cover up...
Managed Care December 2006 Lola Butcher	ICUs Cut Costs by Hiring Intensivists Now that the value of hospitalists is well established, attention turns to those whose only duties are in intensive care.
Managed Care December 2004 Martin Sipkoff	A Better Case for Quality: Share the Savings! Brent James's research has led to a new and powerful vision of paying for performance that binds physicians, plans and hospitals together.
CIO June 1, 2005 Susannah Patton	Medication Systems Need Treatment A recent study found computers can increase the risk of dangerous medication errors.
CIO June 1, 2003 Alison Bass	A Big Rollout Bust Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems can reduce medication errors by as much as 86 percent, and save hospitals and doctors' practices billions of dollars, studies show. Yet only 3 percent to 5 percent of American hospitals have fully implemented CPOE systems. What gives?
Managed Care May 2005 Frank Diamond	Hospitals May See Plans as Their New Confidant Not only can health plans pay for performance, they can offer a mechanism for confidential discussions of mistakes.
Managed Care December 2006	A Conversation With Michael L. Millenson: Health Care Reform Movement Has Only Scratched Surface Michael L. Millenson has long been frustrated by the pace of change says that - ready or not - health care reform is finally on the way.
Managed Care March 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Medical Errors, D.C.'s New Cause - Will Result Be Action, or Just Talk? ...In its landmark study, "To Err Is Human," the Institute of Medicine embarrassed health care by labeling it at least a decade behind other high-risk industries in protecting its customers....
Managed Care May 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Will Pay for Performance Programs Introduce a New Set of Problems? Paying incentives to physicians to practice evidence-based medicine appears to be an idea whose time has come. Such programs -- even if successful -- may create a new set of problems.
Managed Care May 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	Following the Leaders Top pay-for-performance programs point to increased focus on hospital incentives, efficiency measures, coordination, and standardization.
Managed Care July 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Hospitals Asked To Account For Errors on Their Watch Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and states may stop paying for specific hospital-acquired conditions. Will health plans follow suit?
Managed Care September 2003	Blue Cross of Calif. Steers Patients Toward Best Hospitals for CABG California seems to be the place where health plans have decided to crack down on hospital costs by spurring better outcomes.
Managed Care December 2005 Ricardo Guggenheim	Putting EBM To Work (Easier Said Than Done) Through widespread implementation of evidence-based medicine, the United States has its best chance of erasing the variations in care that currently extract such huge costs -- both human and financial -- from the health care system.
Managed Care November 2007 Lola Butcher	Blues Build on CMS Program To Boost Hospital Quality The insurer throws support behind a pay-for-performance program that promises "stunning" advances in cost-effectiveness.
Managed Care June 2004 Jack McCain	P&T Committees in Position To Reduce Medication Errors Pharmacy & Therapeutics Society works with Institute of Medicine and Leapfrog Group to improve processes.
Salon.com December 7, 1999 Dena Bunis	Medical mistakes are killing us Health plans covering federal workers will be the first to improve the quality of care.
Managed Care February 2002 Bob Carlson	Why You Should Care About Improving Clinical Practice Research on quality of care began over 30 years ago. Pages and pages document recent evidence of underuse, overuse, and misuse of resources. Yet only now does change appear imminent, thanks to a growing cadre of passionate reformers who preach clinical practice improvement...
Managed Care May 2000 Mark G. Weiner, M.D., and Eric Pifer, M.D.	Computerized Decision Support and the Quality of Care The notion of quality of care in medicine is not new, but it is becoming increasingly important as the competitive health care market demands objective measures to compare physicians, hospitals, and managed care organizations....
Nursing Management October 2011 Edna Cadmus	Your role in redesigning healthcare We need to rethink how we provide care and to understand the interconnectedness and the structure of healthcare by looking at it as a whole vs. the sum of its parts. As leaders we need to view the evidence as we rethink healthcare together.
Nursing Management April 2009 Sharon H. Pappas	Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome.
Managed Care January 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Cardiologists Call Collaboration Heart of Effort To Improve Care Surgeons in nine hospitals formed a study group and then hit the road to learn from peers. Outcomes improved dramatically.
Managed Care October 2000	For Most States, Medical Error Reporting Is Uncertain Science Other industries have figured out how to collect, analyze, and use error data to prevent catastrophes and drive continuous-quality-improvement programs. Health care is only now beginning that process...
Managed Care January 2005 Alice G. Gosfield	P4P: Transitional at Best Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs promise a fair shake for provider and insurance plan, but a former chairman of the National Committee for Quality Assurance sees many design flaws to overcome.
CIO August 1, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet	Paperless Medicine Saving Money, Saving Lives Health-care CIOs face intense pressure to install electronic medical records and order-entry systems, in spite of physician resistance and large up-front costs. Here's how early adopters are overcoming the obstacles.
HBS Working Knowledge June 29, 2015 Dina Gerdeman	Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records John Quelch discusses approaches to integrate patient data so that medical professionals and patients can make better decisions.
BusinessWeek January 7, 2010 Catherine Arnst	Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists.
Managed Care March 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Can Transparency Save Health Care? If everyone can see what everyone is doing, we'll have better care at lower costs. First task: Create common standards.
Nursing Management September 2009 Richard Hader	Six Ways to Zero Defects Care delivery that's safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable is the challenge set forth by the Institute of Medicine in an effort to reduce medical-related errors
Managed Care February 2002 Alan M. Muney	Evidence-Based Medicine Needs To Be Promoted More Vigorously This means using a carrot-and-stick approach with physicians. Those who respect the evidence should be rewarded; others should face penalties...
Managed Care February 2002 Mick L. Diede & Richard Liliedahl	Getting on the Right Track Converging forces are an economic train wreck waiting to happen. Avoiding a disaster requires an understanding of the interconnection of health care's stakeholders and the global consequences of their actions...
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Hunting For Hospitals That Measure Up New Web sites can help you become an educated health-care consumer
Managed Care September 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Go Carefully When Measuring Quality Gauging and rewarding good work in health care is a noble goal with potentially negative consequences.
Managed Care August 2006 Emad Rizk	Finding Opportunity Where Business Models Meet The next stage of payer-provider collaboration will add true value.
Managed Care May 2003 Martin Sipkoff	Working Together on the Medical Side Partly because of employers' demands, health plans are starting to cooperate in ways that improve care.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Mullaney & Weintraub	The Digital Hospital Information technology saves lives and money at one medical center, perhaps becoming the future of health care.
Managed Care February 2001	Biz Group Warns Hospitals To Move Quickly on Quality Value-based purchasing, a concept that generates lofty discussion but is not always practiced by employers, took a leap forward with the endorsement of a bloc of some of the nation's largest companies...
Managed Care May 2002 John Carroll	Hospital Copayments: At What Cost? High daily copayments for high-priced hospitals are coming into fashion. It's all about shifting costs, but what about quality of care?
Managed Care March 2008 John Carroll	Aetna and Hannaford Make a Singapore Connection Some insurers are taking tentative steps toward developing global provider networks for corporate clients looking to reduce costs by having medical procedures performed in less expensive countries.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2014 William Looney	The Call to Community: A Conversation with Dr. David Nash Population health is the foundation for much of what is truly new in US health reform. For big Pharma, it represents yet another escalation in expectations.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Querna & Fischman	Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue.
CRM August 1, 2009 Lauren McKay	Healing the Sick Facing regulatory requirements, spiraling costs, and an aging (and ailing) customer base, the healthcare industry looks to CRM to balance a pair of age-old doctrines: First, do no harm - and physician, heal thyself.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005	President Bush's IT Doctor Physician/economist David Brailer, point man for the Administration's push for e-health records, on where the planning stands
Managed Care August 2007 Frank Diamond	Employers Roll Up Their Sleeves No longer passive, companies are working in a variety of ways to improve employees' care. Preventive programs cost money up front, but can cut overall treatment costs to insurers by 30 percent or more, yet few insurers pay for preventive care.
CFO May 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt	Strong Medicine Boosted by a substantial injection of cash from the federal stimulus bill, electronic medical records may help relieve the pain of rising premiums by improving efficiencies in the medical system.
Managed Care December 2005 John Carroll	Consumers Don't Know What They Don't Know Experts have been taking a close look at health literacy in America and have concluded that this is one area where even relatively well-educated people will have trouble finding their way.
Managed Care October 2003 Ed Silverman	Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate!