THURSDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) — About 30 percent of health spending in the United States in 2009 — about $750 billion — was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administration costs, fraud and other problems, a government advisory panel said Thursday. Continue reading
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Health care too costly, complex
A Brody School of Medicine professor has co-authored a report issued Thursday that calls Americas health care system too complex and costly, posing a threat to the nations economic stability and global competitiveness. The report, Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America, comes from a committee of the Institute of Medicine and focuses on how the inefficiencies created by an overwhelming amount of data and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health. The good news is that tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve improvement and better quality care at lower cost, committee members said Continue reading
Professor talks about alliance of Nason, ARHS
Three health care trends underlie the recently announced plans of two local hospitals to create a countywide health care system, according to a health policy and administration professor at Penn State. The increasing need for hospitals to adopt information technology, assume financial risk based on patient outcomes and to coordinate care across a variety of settings is forcing hospitals all across the country to consolidate, said Dennis Shea, in the aftermath of the announcement by Altoona Regional Health System and Nason Hospital Continue reading