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The Price of Excess: Identifying Waste in Healthcare Spending
More than half of the $2.2 trillion spent annually on healthcare in the U.S. could be considered wasteful, according to an analysis published by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute. Defensive medicine, such as redundant, inappropriate or unnecessary tests and procedures, was identified as the biggest area of excess, followed by inefficient healthcare administration and the cost of care necessitated by conditions such as obesity, which can be considered preventable by lifestyle changes. See more
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Straight Talk: Looking at Health System Disaster Preparedness
When — not if — a large-scale disaster hits, Americans expect a carefully orchestrated and sequenced response from hospitals, emergency workers and public health officials. In their greatest time of need, the system may fail them unless disaster preparedness becomes a greater priority. In this StraightTalk roundtable, health industry leaders discuss the steps health executives should take to ensure an effective response to a disaster. See more
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Working towards wellness: The business rationale
Written in collaboration with the World Economic Forum PricewaterhouseCoopers outlines how chronic diseases risk the economic sustainability of an interdependent global economy. Through examples, we demonstrate how effective workplace wellness efforts can lead to solid returns on organizational investments and can be used to attract, retain and motivate employees. See more
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Paying for Performance: Incentives and the English Health System
Many countries are looking at ways to reform their healthcare payment systems around performance. The English system for paying primary care physicians is the only one in the world that bases a significant portion of physicians‘ pay on quality metrics. For that reason, this “pay for performance” (P4P) system is worthy of study, and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute (HRI) report shows what is working well, what needs further refinement and what should be considered when implementing pay for performance methodologies. The learnings from this go far beyond the English system. See more
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Healthy choices?
What election-year healthcare reform proposals mean for the future of employer-sponsored health insurance.
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Research rewired: Merging care and research information to improve knowledge discovery
Today'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. See more
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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. See more
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