Morning Headlines 12/17/18
Federal court rules Obamacare unconstitutional — but the law stands for now
A federal judge in Texas rules that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional because Congress eliminated the penalty for people who don’t sign up for health insurance.
WellSky Expands Investment in Hospice Technology with Acquisition of Consolo Services Group
Health IT company WellSky acquires hospice and palliative care software vendor Consolo Services Group.
Centra sees operating margin drop as electronic records rollout leads to increased costs
Centra Health (VA) attributes a drop in operating margin – its first in more than a decade – to increased costs incurred by its Cerner implementation.
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…