Paul D. Jacobs ([email protected]), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. There is widespread agreement that taxpayers pay more when Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in ...

Significant additional outreach and engagement strategies are necessary to get patients to complete an electronic health risk assessment (eHRA), according to a study published at the American Journal ...

Despite extensive research into risk assessment in mental health settings, a consensus has yet to be reached on the best way to apply the findings from this ...

One the most challenging areas facing healthcare organizations today is the decision to adopt an electronic health records system. This decision involves significant financial resources and time ...

Some limits on how the assessments are used for adding new diagnosis codes might be justified to ensure Medicare Advantage plans aren’t overpaid, researchers wrote. Under MA, insurers contract with ...

The Facility Guidelines Institute’s (FGI) Guidelines for Design and Construction requires healthcare organizations to develop a safety risk assessment to identify and mitigate hazards and risks of ...

On September 20, 2021 the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued a report suggesting that certain Medicare Advantage (MA) companies were ...

Panelists discuss how noninvasive risk assessments enable early detection and targeted management of fibrosis in MASH ...

The Pennsylvania Public Health Risk Assessment Tool (PHRAT) was developed for the Pennsylvania Department of Health to help public health and health care planners prioritize their planning efforts for ...

A new doctoral dissertation from the University of Vaasa, Finland, argues that health care cybersecurity will remain fragile ...