Tracking Artificial Hips to Improve Healthcare?

Tracking Artificial Hips to Improve Healthcare?

Currently, there is a $150 billion market for implantable medical devices in the U.S. It is important to track how well devices are working, in order to obtain better value for healthcare dollars. Effective tracking will allow for recalls on devices that may be defective, and it would make it easier to detect cases of fraud.

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Value Based Care Has Created New Business Models for Private Physicians

Value Based Care Has Created New Business Models for Private Physicians

About 60% of doctors are continuing in the private practice of medicine in an attempt to hold on to traditional healthcare. Nonetheless, the industry is shifting towards new payment methods. Dr. Harold Miller, president and CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, claims that physicians would have to slow Medicare spending by 0.5% per year over the next 10 years in order to achieve the savings for SGR repeal.

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CHIME Recommends Health IT Solutions to Congress

CHIME Recommends Health IT Solutions to Congress

The current U.S. healthcare system is faced with many threats to patient safety. On July 1st in a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions group working on EHRs, CHIME stressed the need for correct patient identification to ensure patient safety.

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