POSTS TAGGED AS healthcare costs

Housing and Health

Insurer Aetna estimates the average cost of a hospital ER visit for asthma to be around $6,000.  With that [MORE]

Personalized, Predictive, and Pervasive Wellness; Reimbursement, Access and Efficacy

The rapid implementation of novel cost saving and quality improving health care technologies is hindered by skepticism from insurance [MORE]

Smart Connected Homes

Home Health Home
Note the numbers in this piece about the value of home telehealth monitoring:  35-56 percent reduction in [MORE]

MUSING – Parallel Jubilees

2011 was a jubilee year-50th anniversary-for two seemingly unrelated aspirations: manned space exploration and wellness.  In May 1961, [MORE]

UK Healthcare Reform

UK Protestor
Americans are used to hearing politicians say how faulty healthcare delivery is in the UK under its National [MORE]

Study: $20b in Costs from Medical Errors

Commissioned by the Society of Actuaries in Schaumberg, IL, and completed by consultants with Milliman in Seattle, the report used [MORE]

Strategies to Reduce the Healthcare Cost Curve

Howard Deichen, MBA, Executive Vice President,  MedAssets explores  the future of healthcare  and strategies  that will successfully bend the healthcare [MORE]

Carlisle Speaks Out on Healthcare System Restructuring

Jeffrey Carlisle, Founder and CEO of Fluidnet,  describes the disconnect of incentives in the healthcare system and how that contributes [MORE]

MUSING – Kiosk-Based Healthcare Delivery

Medication Kiosk – PharmaTrust
Kiosk-based medicine has suddenly taken a new step with the next wave in direct to consumer marketing [MORE]

Guiding Principles for the Hospital of the Future

On the eve of national healthcare reform, the Joint Commission’s 2008 report Guiding Principles for the Development of the [MORE]

Using Technology to Connect Acute Care and Community Services to Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes for Older Americans

This presentation by the Executive Vice President of MedAssets focuses on the costs of care for chronic illness in older [MORE]

Systematic Savings, Improved Access, Greater Availability & a Free eHealth Infrastructure: Possible? Yes

Globally healthcare systems are struggling to meet demand for services while trying to focus on quality improvements. Access to healthcare [MORE]

Social Networking for Code Dealers

At one end of the medical spectrum is heroic surgery and molecular miracles.  At the other end is billing and [MORE]

Eldercare Costs Rising

Apropos to this year’s Medical Automation International Conference, a recent report presents cost figures for eldercare between 1996 and 2006.  [MORE]