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In Part I of the blog series we wrote regarding the first four causes of the negative growth in hospital admissions being experienced in most parts of the US. Most would agree that these causes, although affecting the growth of hospitals admissions negatively, are really leading to better clinical outcomes, which in many cases are more affordable and accessible. The additional eight causes that ...
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In most parts of the United States the number of hospital admissions have been decreasing between 3% and 8% in the last several years. The mean length of stay, although more variable from institution to institution, has stabilized or decreased. Gross revenue increases are being consistently reported due to more uninsured becoming insured, better contracts from some payers, clinical outcomes, and, ...
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A recent article published in Health Affairs, authored by Sanir Soneji, a PhD working in the Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, questions the value of U.S. cancer care. He states that: “screening, prevention, and treatment have extended life for oncology patients, but at a higher cost in the U.S. than in Europe, without a corresponding decrease in cancer deaths. For ...
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In a recent meeting, several people in the audience asked me what are the basis things that they should know and remember that will assist them in being successful in their leadership roles in the ever increasing complex healthcare industry? Knowing that one should keep the solutions, even to complex problems, as simple as possible if they are to be successful and sustainable, I answered by saying ...
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As technologies and innovations continue to create more and more non-invasive procedures, the movement of “once required” inpatient care is moving rapidly to safer ambulatory settings where often better and less costly medical outcomes are achieved. This transformation is also being fueled by marked increases in the types of anesthesia that has become available over the last decade ...
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