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You get what you pay for: A global look at balancing demand, quality, and efficiency in healthcare payment reform
As the pressure to control health spending increases, payers, governments, and providers are compelled to scrutinize the quality and amount of care they'll be able to deliver in the future. Health leaders around the world see the health payment system as one of the best tools in managing this challenge and achieving sustainability. However, with less than 40% of those same leaders ranking their existing payment system as good, every country has room to improve and can benefit from shared best practices. See
You get what you pay for: A global look at balancing demand, quality, and efficiency in healthcare payment reform.
Research rewired: Merging care and research information to improve knowledge discoveryToday's ad hoc methods of managing research information are beginning to strain under increasing demands for new drugs, more personalized medicine, better diagnostic tools, and post-market safety monitoring. This report investigates the benefits, barriers, and emerging approaches to creating an integrated information environment that will help to shape scientific diagnostic, drug, and device discovery in the future.
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Top eight health industry issues in 2008
Health organizations face a pivotal year in 2008 as they anticipate the wildcard outcome of the presidential election. Meanwhile, they must prepare for impending changes — pharmaceutical and life sciences companies are adapting to a new safety agenda from the FDA including the agency's expanded authority over post-market drug safety.
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Collaboration fosters connected health
The system of caring for people.the chronically ill, the elderly or even the fitness buff.is reactive, expensive and cumbersome. But a new paradigm of care, called connected health, promises to reduce costs and improve quality by working with patients proactively.
The economics of IT and hospital performance
More than 60 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have made significant enough investments in information technology to begin seeing reductions in operating costs, according to a report on the relationship between health IT investment and hospital operating performance. The report, the culmination of two-years of research, provides the most comprehensive evidence that investment in information technology will improve hospital business performance and that IT capital investment can eventually pay for itself in the healthcare environment.
New Federal Leadership on Healthcare Transparency: What Will It Mean for Patients, Payers and Providers
On August 22, 2006, President Bush signed an executive order mandating that four federal agencies that administer or sponsor several of the largest federal healthcare programs compile information about the quality and price of the healthcare services they pay for and communicate that information to their consumers and each other. The executive order builds on previous administration efforts to expand the transparency of pricing in support of consumer-directed healthcare, an innovative approach to controlling healthcare costs by empowering patients as the consumers of healthcare. This PricewaterhouseCoopers report reviews the president’s executive order and its implications for patients, payers and providers.
Electronic Health Record Clinical Progress Notes and Paper Templates Could Be Creating Compliance Risk
Three-part series on auditing and monitoring controls around the use of paper or pre-printed EHR progress notes and templates used to capture clinical care.
HealthCast 2020: Creating a Sustainable Future
In this groundbreaking report, HealthCast 2020, PricewaterhouseCoopers looks at solutions and responses from around the world to the globalization and industrywide convergence of healthcare. What insights, best practices and policy lessons can be learned from experiences in various countries to create a globally sustainable health system? Who, or what, is driving the solutions?
The Digital Hospital: Opportunities and Challenges
Organizations building a new hospital have a one-time opportunity to completely rethink how care is delivered and dramatically enhance quality while concurrently reducing costs. Emerging technologies present the opportunity to automate the entire clinical continuum.
The Road To A Digital Healthcare Community
Straight Talk: New approaches in Healthcare
Clinical Information Systems
Straight Talk: New approaches in Healthcare
Trends in IT Spending Among Hospitals
This year's Modern Healthcare/PricewaterhouseCoopers IT Survey included responses from 394 hospital CEOs and CFOs revealing how IT spending patterns are changing.
HealthCast Tactics: A Blueprint for the Future
This report suggests tactics for the healthcare industry to employ over the next three to five years. According to HealthCast Tactics, there are significant gaps between what healthcare executives, policy makers and employers rate as important and what is being implemented performance-based reimbursement, privacy, and clinical excellence. The report draws on a survey of more than 650 top executives of hospital systems, payors, governments, medical supply vendors, physician groups and employers.
HealthCast 2010: Smaller World, Bigger Expectations
Our survey group included a mix of policy makers, health system executives, employers, physicians, insurers and medical supply vendors. In addition, PwC practice leaders interviewed more than 50 thought leaders from seven countries at length about future trends and their implications for the industry's stakeholders.
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