Care Coordination
A new AHA report highlights some of the significant changes and future challenges that impact hospitals and health systems.
Innovation labs and centers of excellence continue to take shape as health care organizations look for ways to speed delivery system transformation and control costs better. Partners HealthCare, the Boston-based nonprofit and physicians’ network, became the latest to step up its activity in this…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General seeks comments on how it can modify the anti-kickback statute and exceptions to the beneficiary inducements civil monetary penalty definition of “remuneration.”
Hartford HealthCare – Connecticut
Logistics Center Coordinates Care Among Six Hospitals
Hartford HealthCare instituted a centralized logistics center to maximize patient flow among its flagship academic medical center in Hartford and its five other hospitals in Connecticut. Since its launch in…
In an effort to make care more accessible to its changing community, Washington, D.C.-based Providence Health System will transition out of acute care services by the end of 2018 and will instead offer care coordination, telehealth services and virtual care, primary and urgent care, home care,…
We previously raised concerns about the most recent “The Price Ain’t Right” study by a group of academic economists that attempted to link hospital co
A new AHA issue brief offers a prototype practice model to help hospitals and health systems meet the complex needs of older adults across care settings.
Patients discharged from the hospital and those who care for them would like hospitals to communicate in a supportive, collaborative and purposeful way, anticipate and explain how they will address their needs, and ensure continuity of care, according to a pilot study by Project ACHIEVE.