POSTS TAGGED AS healthcare costs

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]