Do Chiropractic Physician Services for Treatment of Low Back and Neck Pain Improve the Value of Health Benefit Plans? An Evidence-Based Assessment of Incremental Impact on Population Health and Total Health Care Spending.
Gaston Memorial Hospital partnered with Emergency Medicine Physicians, in August of 2005 in an effort to redefine the way Emergency Care was provided to the community.
Dr. Karen L. Smith, MD, PA is a solo family doctor located in North Carolina. Dr. Smith has offered her patients the convenience of “virtual office visits” since 2005 through Medfusion’s secure patient-provider communication. This innovative solution enables Dr. Smith to maintain continuous care of her patients – improving patient satisfaction and driving revenue for her practice.
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By partnering with Diversified Clinical Services, Inc. (DCS) to provide inpatient and outpatient wound care programs, Portsmouth Regional Hospital has decreased the patient length of stay by 6.75 days. Reducing length of stay is just one benefit a Wound Care Center® provides to its 285 hospital partners nationwide.
For north central Ohio's largest healthcare system, a healthcare integration project shortened length of stay and boosted ROI. MedCentral Health System, a US nonprofit organization comprised of two general, acute-care hospitals in central Ohio, was seeking to improve productivity and patient care, while reducing costs throughout its system. Read this white paper so see how Siemens Medical was able to help MedCentral Health System.
The Challenge: Ensuring accurate pricing on purchases is a daunting task that all healthcare organizations face. Seemingly countless products from a wide variety of suppliers complicate the process further for facilities’ pharmacy departments. And when you are a large integrated delivery network (IDN) such as Intermountain Healthcare, the challenge can get more complex and costly each and every day simply because of the size of your organization
Care New England was printing more than 47,000 reports per year at an average of 40 pages or 1,915,861 pieces of paper per year. These reports required distribution, storage and access to the printed reports upon demand. Access to the reports usually meant a delay because they were stored at another facility. Reports had to be located, picked up and delivered by a courier service. On top of those expenses were the costs involved in shredding and archiving.
Recently, there has been considerable research and discussion in the healthcare industry focused on improving “patient throughput” in hospitals and health systems. Much of this work has been in response to the growing industry-wide problem of overcrowded emergency departments. The situation has become more urgent with the new directive by JCAHO’s Managing Patient Flow standard (L.D.3.15) introduced in January, 2005. Originally envisioned as a standard for emergency departments, the Managing Patient Flow standard actually puts the onus on hospital leadership to develop plans to maximize...
