Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.
Some of the claims in the lawsuit, brought against Novant Health by Kyle Horton, MD, are backed by a report from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
The agencies said private equity firms are rolling up healthcare sectors through serialized purchases that fly under the radar of regulators, creating an unsustainable level of consolidation.
A new report from the Office of the Inspector General found the FDA failed to properly record meetings with drug manufacturers, ultimately approving drugs later shown to have safety and efficacy issues.
The integration was announced during the annual JP Morgan Health Care Conference in San Francisco. The program works through Amazon Benefits Manager to remotely help patients with weight and blood pressure management.
Castlight Health, the company that facilitates healthcare e-consumerism, set a niche record today for the most amount of money raised by an HIT start-up, according to Forbes.
In a per-capita comparison among a dozen other Western nations, the United States is far and away the price leader in healthcare if not the utilization leader, according to a new report from policy group The Commonwealth Fund.
In New York, a pair of state legislatorss held a press conference today stumping for mandatory insurance coverage for adjunctive breast cancer screenings, reports the Albany Times Union.
A four-year retroactive study by the Patient Advocacy Foundation (PAF) has determined that insurance should have covered 90 percent of some 4,000 Americans denied access to needed medical imaging services.
The national mammogram debate intensified this week with the release of a pair of studies that opened old wounds about the recommended frequency of preventive studies for women in their 40s.
Today the FDA cleared an adjunctive imaging technology that will give urologists an extra tool in their arsenal for the detection of prostate abnormalities.
Radiologists—and many practicing physicians—are so busy learning the clinical demands of their profession that they just don’t have time to keep up with the latest in operational needs, according to a new study.