U.S. Receives D+ on Emergency Care Report Card
States Grades on Access to Emergency Care from ACEP Emergency Care Report Card 2014 Emergency care in the United States has a lot of room for improvement, according to the latest report card from the...
Survey: Healthcare Professionals Feel Good About Career Prospects
Healthcare workers are increasingly confident that they chose the right career path with job security, according to a new poll. Respondents posted a confidence level of nearly 60% in the third quarter of 2013, the...
Hospitals Using Obesity Suit to Better Understand Patients
Employees at two hospitals have been donning a specialized suit as a learning tool in how to treat obese patients safely and with respect. The goal is to reduce injuries to patients and healthcare providers...
Poll: 30% of Americans Delay Medical Treatment Due to Cost
Nearly one-third of Americans said they or a family member have put off seeing a doctor for fear that they cannot afford treatment, according to a recent Gallup poll. Another poll, also by Gallup,...
Top 10 Health Technologies for 2014 Reference Guide Released
ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization that focuses on finding the best ways to improve patient care, has created a resource to help hospitals and healthcare executives find the latest and greatest healthcare technologies for...
U.S. Has Low Growth for Health Spending for the Fourth Consecutive Year
Growth in healthcare spending in the United States has remained low for the fourth consecutive year, according to a report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The report covered national health spending...
Survey: Most Organizations are “Very Concerned” About Controlling Cost of Healthcare
Individuals aren’t the only people who are carefully monitoring healthcare costs. According to findings from the “State of Employee Benefits in the Workplace” survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 83 percent...
MBA Students from the University of Texas at Dallas Win Healthcare Competition
A team of MBA students from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas won the 2013 Humana Healthcare Case Competition. For the third year in a row, Humana challenged...
Medicare Releases Best and Worst Hospitals for Replacing Joints
Hip and knee replacement surgeries are common in hospitals across the United States, and Medicare has begun examining how well patients fared afterward. There were 719,000 total knee replacements in the United States in 2010...
Six Healthcare Changes to Know for 2014
A new year always brings change – and that’s especially true in 2014 as many aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” take effect Jan. 1. Designed to increase health insurance’s quality and affordability,...