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The global healthcare cloud computing market size was USD 61.80 billion in 2023 and is predicted to grow from USD 69.80 billion in 2024 to approximately USD 210.51 billion by [...]

The global healthcare cloud computing market size was USD 61.80 billion in 2023 and is predicted to grow from USD 69.80 billion in 2024 to approximately USD 210.51 billion by [...]

The global burn care market size is predicted to increase from USD 2.73 billion in 2023 to approximately USD 4.41 billion by 2033, according to a study published by Towards [...]

Most people think of Medicare as a government program. That's still mainly true, but it increasingly doesn't seem like it will be for long. Of course, the government will still [...]

Share of DaVita (DVA) are sliding after Roddy Boyd's Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation published a new report that accuses the company of having its finances 'massively levered to an opaque [...]

Methods to analyze a healthcare facility based on regulations governing it, management issues which influence revenue and earnings growth, company's competitive advantage, financial issues such as operating margins, revenues and labor, corporate governance, etc, are furnished.

The downward trend observed in the 2001 and 2002, continues for healthcare industry in 2005. This is mainly due to increase in the number of self-pay and uninsured patients. The rise in the consumer healthcare costs, popularity in health savings accounts, the regulatory outlook, increased competition among specialty hospitals and traditional acute care providers, and the economic performance of the for-profit hospitals, are also discussed.

Studies of the effects of hospital competition on patient care costs in the United States have been confounded by market segmentation on insurance status, payers, and payment type, all operating [...], Objective. To test the hypotheses that: (1) average adjusted costs per discharge are higher in high-competition relative to low competition markets, and (2) increased competition is associated with cost convergence between public and for-profit (FP) hospitals for case payment diagnoses, but not for cost plus reimbursed diagnoses. Data Sources. Taiwan's National Health Insurance database; 325,851 inpatient claims for cesarean section, vaginal delivery, prostatectomy, and thyroidectomy (all case payment), and bronchial asthma and cholelithiasis (both cost-based payment). Study Design. Retrospective population-based, cross-sectional study. Data Analysis. Diagnosis-wise regression analyses were done to explore associations between cost per discharge and hospital ownership under high and low competition, adjusted for clinical severity and institutional characteristics. Principal Findings. Adjusted costs per discharge are higher for all diagnoses in high competition markets. For case payment diagnoses, the magnitudes of adjusted cost differences between public and FP hospitals are lower under high competition relative to low competition. This is not so for the cost based diagnoses. Conclusions. We find that the empirical evidence supports both our hypotheses. Key words. Cost convergence, competition, hospital ownership, prospective payment

Inside the front door of Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock, Ark., a plaque commemorates one of the 68-year-old hospital's proudest moments. Nine years ago, doctors on staff performed the [...]

Hospitals, doctors and some health care buyers are forming alliances to form provider-sponsored networks (PSNs) to eliminate the need for health maintenance organizations. The most established of these PSNs provide medical services ranging from brain surgery to pediatrics as well as health care components such as rehabilitation centers and home health care services. In the area of regulation, the central government claimed that antitrust regulation can be bypassed by physicians and hospitals involved in a network if they offer 'efficiencies' to the market. However, the term 'efficiencies' remains unclear., for years now, physicians and hospitals have been talking out about, and to some extent creating, their own organizations to do an end-run around health maintenance organizations (HMOs). These so-called [...]

Tenet and other chains stand to profit from their competitor's troubles. But how different are they? Creighton St. Joseph Regional Health Care System is the pride of Tenet Healthcare Corp., [...]

Ventura County Medical Center and Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, CA are strongly competing to survive in the health care business. Government measures to cut costs on indigent care expenses and increased number of uninsured persons are the reasons for the fierce competition.

Today's collaborators become tomorrow's combatants, and patients are their weapons After five years of consolidation and fierce cost cutting, the health care market in the Twin Cities now resembles the [...]

John Sforza, head of the Florida Health Coalition, expects to extract concessions and hard-data confessions from hospitals and doctors. His tough new goal: reduce costs, improve care... and weed out [...]

Heart Institute expansion fuels market tension Heart disease is a growth industry, and Kansas City's Mid America Heart Institute wants to be a major player. The institute is a vital [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2015 M2 COMMUNICATIONS App Annie, a provider of app analytics and market data, said Amwell was the most popular telehealth app of 2014 based on iOS and Google [...]