FierceHealthcare | The healthcare industry has put much focus on pay-for-performance programs to improve the quality of care. Yet new research questions this approach and suggests that providing financial incentives to doctors and hospitals to deliver high-quality care may not ensure healthier patients. After reviewing studies of incentive programs,...
AuntMinnie | Performing bedside ultrasound on emergency department (ED) patients with undifferentiated hypotension can reduce diagnostic uncertainty and have a clinically significant impact on more than half of cases, according to research from George Washington University (GWU) Medical Center. In addition, the prospective study also found...
imagingBiz | The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association is asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider a proposal to require the submission of patient-level data as it pilots electronic submissions of clinical quality measures. Responding to proposed rules for the Medicare Physician...