POSTS TAGGED AS healthcare economics

“Automated Hovering”

Most of this piece is well known to our readers, though there are some interesting twists about patient adherence [MORE]

Device Industry SWOT Analysis

SWOT Chart for Medical Devices
The 2.3% excise tax on medical devices, to begin in January 2013, has that industry [MORE]

RWJ Foundation Surveys Quality in Healthcare

It wasn’t long ago that American healthcare was touted as the best in the world.  That was then; this [MORE]

MUSING – Automated Billing Analysis

Everyone knows that someone pays for healthcare, whether it’s the government, an insurer, an individual, or the provider.  But it [MORE]

The Other 1%

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has reported that 1% of healthcare consumers account for 22% of the [MORE]

136m Emergency Room Visits

Emergency Visit
In one year, 2008 to 2009, emergency room visits in the US rose from 128.m to 136m-the largest [MORE]

Trends in Population Health

One implication of healthcare reform is that not-for-profit “community hospitals” will demonstrate a greater mission role by keeping people [MORE]

Two Assistance Robots for Hospitals

Hair Washing Robot
Today’s children, who have grown up with “Transformer” toys and videos about robots, may be conditioned to [MORE]

Cost Savings With Hospital-in-Home

A story in the Camberra (Australia) Times cites a study Deloitte conducted which showed that nurses and doctors doing [MORE]

CBO’s Long Term Budget Forecast for US Healthcare

Healthcare spending in the US now stands at 5.6% of total GDP; the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that rising to [MORE]

Nursing Economics

Accounting consultants KPMG reported last month that the actual cost of a full-time RN was 176% of the base [MORE]

Getting More Out of RTLS

Real time location systems continue to save costs in supply chain management for hospitals where ever they are installed.  [MORE]

Coupons in Consumer Healthcare

Groupon, Foursquare, Scoutmob and Living Social are among a growing number of social media services that market health care [MORE]

Mood Monitoring

Mood Monitoring
This piece isn’t about monitoring patients’ health, but detecting nuances of language, reflecting buyers’ moods, could be a [MORE]