POSTS TAGGED AS economics

What Defines “Medical Necessity?”

If anything might be described as “deliciously intergovernmental,” the legal doctrine of “medical necessity” is a prime example. State [MORE]

CMS “Decision Support System” on Imaging

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid hope to enlist up to 3,000 private practice physicians to study how they [MORE]

Downloadable White Papers on Change Management

“Turning Product Development into Competitive Advantage,” “10 Ways to Establish a Strategic Advantage in Managing Change,” and a “Practical [MORE]

Europe’s Digital Economy Strategy

Over the past 15 years, information and communication technologies have driven half of the productive growth of the European [MORE]

Healthcare Innovations-Mainly for Poor Countries

The McKinsey Quarterly surveys healthcare payer and provider services around the world, mentioning Mexico’s “Medical Home” telemedicine service that provides [MORE]

Huge Market Growth in Detecting AAA and PAD

Driven by stents in treating abdominal aortic aneurysms and peripheral arterial disease, market watchers are predicting business for detecting and [MORE]

Billions $ in Wasted US Healthcare Costs

Unnecessary care, administrative inefficiency, provider errors, preventable conditions, and lack of care coordination add up to a large waste bill [MORE]

AHRQ Guidelines for IT Projects

The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has prepared a “toolkit” (actually, it’s a template with references) to guide [MORE]

Growth of Wireless Telehealth

Even without insurance reimbursement, analysts estimate that by 2012 some 15 million mobile and wireless healthcare devices will be in [MORE]