A study published in Liver Transplantation examined a common tool used in everyday evaluations and its efficiency in predicting patients in need of additional support after a liver transplant.

Paul Levy, the former president and CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, argues the move towards value-based care is “likely to be an energy-sapping distraction” based on false assumptions about providers' behavior.

It's Never 2 Late®, the leader in providing person-centered digital engagement, content and technology solutions for seniors, announced the expansion of its leadership team with the addition of Matt Miller as Vice President of Product Development. This addition underscores iN2L's commitment to providing personalized engagement solutions that include interactive multimedia, cognitive based gamification and adaptive devices to keep seniors active, connected and engaged.

Cash incentives improve the rate of low-income adults making an initial appointment when they become newly covered by a primary care program, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

An appeals court has sided with hospitals in California by ruling the federal government wrongly approved a 10 percent payment cut for outpatient services in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, for an eight-month period beginning in July 2008.

AUM Cardiovascular has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its non-invasive acoustic and ECG device. The CADence device uses recorded sounds from a patient's heart and proprietary algorithms to evaluate cardiovascular health.

Announcements of new procedures or devices available at hospitals and health systems are meant to attract patients and attention to the facilities. What usually gets left out of that conversation, Axios reports, is how much those new technologies cost.

Two studies published in the August edition of Health Affairs emphasized while patients like the idea of having healthcare prices available for comparison shopping, in practice, few actually take advantage of the tools.