Author: Staff

With healthcare trending toward value-based care, more patients are seeking care at urgent care centers as well as retail clinic.

On March 8, federal officials reported prescription drug spending is exceeding overall national healthcare spending, according to The Hill.

The National Quality Forum wrote recommendations for organizations to establish better health IT guidelines, according to Health IT Analytics.

Three Swedish Medical Center former surgery patients are suing the Denver-based hospital after a former surgical tech exposed the patients and nearly 3,000 others to HIV and hepatitis B, C, according to Fox News.

More Americans believe private health plans offer enhanced access and higher quality of care, based on a Health Insurance Authority report, according to RTE News.

Five analysts rated Physicians Realty Trust's stock as "buy," seven analysts rated it as "outperform," and one analyst rated it as "underperform," according to Share Trading.

The majority of providers are not ready for the transition to value-based care, as found in a recent HIMSS survey, according to Health Data Management.

Eighty-one percent of consumers are unsatisfied with their healthcare, according to a Prophet and GE Healthcare Camden Group study.

To drive down costs for patients and reward physicians based on patient outcomes, Medicare is testing a new payment method for Medicare B drugs, according to U.S. News& World Report.

New York-based Hospital for Special Surgery and its outpatient clinic, Stamford Outpatient Center, added sports medicine physician Daphne Scott, MD, to its team, according to Darien Daily Voice.