The Innovator's Prescription (published by McGraw-Hill) argues that disruptive innovation is required to make health care affordable. In this excerpt, the authors look into the ways disruption can ...

Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service (WBHHS) and their Integrated Care Access Team (iCAT) created the model using a holistic approach, to prevent repeat emergency admissions, manage community wellness ...

The results of the investigators' randomized controlled trial with more patients strengthens the evidence, showing that home hospital care reduced cost, utilization, and readmissions while increasing ...

In 2014, Maryland and CMS entered a 5-year agreement employing the All-Payer Hospital Model in the state to cut costs while improving quality. According to the year 3 performance data, Maryland has ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has been developed to predict how long a person with a learning disability is likely to stay in hospital, offering valuable insights that could improve care ...

A pilot study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital reimagines the best place to care for select, acutely ill adults. The project poses the question: What if, instead of being admitted and ...

Dozens of small community hospitals with low inpatient volumes will likely be good candidates to convert to the rural emergency hospital model. But before they convert, hospitals want more clarity and ...

As the healthcare industry adopts the philosophy of accountable care, large hospitals and academic medical centers may seem to have the upper hand compared with community hospitals, because larger ...

When Carmen, an 84-year-old, was diagnosed with a respiratory infection requiring intravenous treatment, her family assumed that she would spend several days admitted to a hospital ward far from her ...