Study Finds Differences in Benefits, Service at Hospices Based on Tax Status
Main Point:
The tax status of a hospice (for-profit vs. nonprofit) affects community benefits, the population served and community outreach.
Published in:
JAMA Internal Medicine
Author:
Melissa D. Aldridge, Ph.D., of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and colleagues.
Background:
The number of for-profit hospices has increased over the past two decades with about 51 percent of hospices being for-profit in 2011 compared with about 5 percent in 1990. But little is known about how for-profit and nonprofit hospices differ in activities beyond service delivery.
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Categories: Business, Medical Tags: business, Community Engagement, Hospice, JAMA Internal Medicine, medical, science
Study Develops Top 5 List of Procedures to Reduce Costs in Emergency Department
Main Points:
A top-five list of emergency medicine procedures that are of low value and could help control costs if providers do not order them was developed as part of a study by Jeremiah D. Schuur, M.D., M.H.S., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and colleagues.
Published in:
JAMA Internal Medicine
Study Further:
The cost of medical care in the United States is growing at an unsustainable rate and the tests, treatments and hospitalizations that come from emergency department care are expensive, according to the study background.
Categories: Business, Medical Tags: business, health, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, medical, medicine, science
Improving Post-hospital Outcomes with Community Health Worker Intervention
Main Points:
Hospitalized patients with low-socioeconomic status were more likely to obtain post-discharge primary care and less likely to have multiple 30-day readmissions to the hospital when they worked with community health workers to create individualized plans for their recovery goals, according to a study by Shreya Kangovi, M.D., M.S., of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and colleagues.
Published in:
JAMA Internal Medicine
Study Further:
Socioeconomic and other factors can negatively affect post-hospital outcomes. Community health workers (CHWs) are trained laypeople who can work to support patients because traditional hospital personnel often lack the time and community linkages to address those factors, according to the study background.
Categories: Business, Medical Tags: business, Community health worker, health, hospitals, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, medical, science
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Categories: Business, Technology Tags: business, Newspaper, PressReader, technology, website
Facebook is planning to attract annual $66.35 billion TV advertising market in U.S.
Facebook Inc. is going to experiment video advertisements with a handful of advertisers on its website that would play automatically in news feeds of users, according to The Wall Street Journal citing people, who know the subject.
Don’t worry the ads would not annoy you as they will play without sounds. Users can view and listen to the video by clicking on the advertisement. Moreover, the company has reported that the new ads will not consume mobile data plans as the videos will only download upon connection to WiFi.
According to the reports, this type of advertising would capture a share of about $66.35 billion TV advertising market annually in the United States. This move could significantly increase the company’s advertising revenue.
Although, it is still unclear but according to the journal Facebook could show ads of up to 15 seconds. Read more…
Categories: Business, Technology Tags: advertising, business, facebook, technology, U.S.
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