Morning Headlines 8/10/18
Pathways To Success: A New Start For Medicare’s Accountable Care Organizations
CMS Administrator Seema Verma summarizes the 600-page, just-published proposed rule that would overhaul the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
Amazon has plans to open its own health clinics for Seattle employees
Amazon will open primary care clinics for employees at its Seattle headquarters with a pilot getting underway this year.
Connecting to Epic: Un-Users Group Meeting
Epic will hold its first Un-Users Group Meeting at its Verona campus on September 26, with an agenda aimed at non-Epic using provider leaders who want to exchange information with Epic customers.
UnitedHealth in second round of bidding for athenahealth
UnitedHealth Group, Bain Capital, and TPG are among the second-round bidders in the running to acquire Athenahealth.
VA is a much more complicated rollout since there are so many different interactions and configurations of VistA. In addition,…
Care from the "Home Care" industry, housecleaninig, companionship, etc, is trying to move into the Hospital at Home space, but…
I agree, in my haste I did grab some older studies. Here is a meta-analysis (albeit from Australia) which is…
Participants in a randomized trial have to be able and willing to be part of the trial regardless of what…
There are many validated and published studies on patient satisfaction with "hospital at home" models, along with individual statistics presented…