POSTS TAGGED AS healthcare costs

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

Kiosk-based medicine has suddenly taken a new step with the next wave in direct to consumer marketing that is sweeping [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]

ROI for Mobile Healthcare

“Can the value of the services provided by mobile health programs be quantified in terms of quality adjusted life years [MORE]

On-site Clinics

Retail clinics, which seemed to be growing exponentially not long ago, have slowed in their openings, but another branch of [MORE]

Hospital Readmission Costs

A Boston-based research group has found that one in five hospital discharges results in an adverse event requiring readmission within [MORE]

Priceline for Healthcare

HealthPartners, a non-profit HMO in Bloomington, MN, has put its prices for 83 procedures online.  These include five high volume [MORE]

Create Dangerously: Health System Transformation

Americans want better healthcare and are waking up to the need to fundamentally transform our current healthcare delivery system. But [MORE]

Eldercare Technologies: Vision, Challenges, and Possibilities

This presentation puts forward a CAST’s vision for technology-enabled care. The presentation will review classes of enabling technologies, discuss problems [MORE]

New Directions in Healthcare

By 2015, projected healthcare costs will hit $4 trillion and account for 20 percent of the US economy according to [MORE]