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Specialty medical home expects millions in savings
The medical home model needn't be limited to primary care but can include specialty-focused medicine. For example, the concept already has been applied to oncology and succeeded in cutting costs,
State saved nearly $1B using medical homes
The use of medical homes in North Carolina has shaved healthcare expenses by nearly $1 billion between 2007 and 2010, reports Stateline Health News. The medical home system in the Tar Heel State is
Still no consensus on patient use of Internet for health information
"I think patients are savvy enough to realize everything they read on the Internet is not the gospel and they should take it with a grain of salt," Charlotte, N.C., internist Dr. Marshall Silverman
Failing to bill Medicaid for inmate care costs state millions
Had North Carolina billed Medicaid upon prisoners receiving inpatient treatment from hospitals and other healthcare providers, the state could have saved about $11.5 million a year, an audit found,
Physician sues telemedicine company over his license suspension
A North Carolina physician is suing Secure Telemedicine for fraud, misrepresentation, and unfair trade practices after his license was suspended in North Carolina and he was publicly reprimanded in
N.C. moves closer to HAI reporting mandate
North Carolina doesn't mandate public reporting of hospital infection data, but it's moving one step closer. A bill introduced in the North Carolina House last year would have appropriated $1.1
N.C. hospital saves time and money, improves staff morale with RTLS technology
A real-time location system, a form of RFID particularly useful for tracking the movement of high-value assets, saved a North Carolina hospital $750,000 by cutting the amount of time staff spent
CA health organizations look to mobile technologies; NC awards grant to support wireless monitoring;
> Mobile and wireless technologies are central to innovation at Kaiser Permanente and UC-Davis. Article > AmeriChoice, an affiliate of UnitedHealth Group, is donating $290,000 worth of
Sex ed moves to cell phones
If the two things every 21st Century adolescent has are cell phones and questions about sex, it only makes sense to combine them. That is the thought behind The Birds and Bees Text Line, a project of
NC hospital, medical practices begin shift to IT
Novant Health Inc. and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center said that despite the influx of $19 billion in health IT stimulus funds, they already have been converting their paper records to
