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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]
A Quarter of Heart Failure Patients Readmitted to Hospitals
January 19, 2010 | Terry Sharrer | Posted in Newsletter
Dr. Joseph Ross
Telemedicine solutions that minimize hospital readmissions for heart failure have a pretty big target to hit. One [MORE]
Using Technology to Connect Acute Care and Community Services to Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes for Older Americans
December 7, 2009 | Howard Deichen | Posted in Conference Abstracts 2009,Conference Presentations 2009,Resources
This presentation by the Executive Vice President of MedAssets focuses on the costs of care for chronic illness in older [MORE]
Hospital Readmission Rates
August 25, 2009 | Terry Sharrer | Posted in Newsletter
Length of stay is a metric hospitals and payers watch closely. Typically, hospitals are reimbursed by the case, while physicians [MORE]
Hospital Readmission Costs
February 10, 2009 | Terry Sharrer | Posted in Newsletter
A Boston-based research group has found that one in five hospital discharges results in an adverse event requiring readmission within [MORE]