In western Montrose County, most health care services are at least 90 minutes away. The region has several long-standing towns: Nucla (590 people), Naturita (481 people), Redvale (405 people) and, ...

Abstract: Ensuring continuity of care remains a critical challenge, often hindered by fragmented healthcare and social support services. This paper presents an IT-enabled approach to mapping social ...

Children across the country are being removed from Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) as part of an unwinding process happening nationwide in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The United States has the most expensive health care in the developed world. Now it's about to get even more expensive. Some 154 million people get health insurance through their employer — and many ...

Most companies want to scale efficiently, but few truly understand the mechanics of how work gets done. That’s where business process mapping comes in. Business process mapping visually outlines how ...

The Oregon Office of Rural Health (ORH) recently launched the CHNA Mapping and Analysis Project, a new resource designed to make hospital Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) more accessible and ...

Universal health care (UHC) is a system under which "all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship," said the ...

WalletHub ranked all 50 states and Washington, D.C., based on cost, access and health outcomes, each weighted equally. The analysis used 44 metrics, including insurance premiums, provider availability ...

For years, the United States labor market has been undergoing a structural transformation. As jobs in manufacturing have receded, slowly but steadily, the health care industry has more than replaced ...

Months after the killing of a top health insurance executive unleashed Americans’ pent-up anger over denials of medical care, the industry announced Monday that it will take action to “streamline, ...

Health plans under major U.S. insurers said Monday they have voluntarily agreed to speed up and reduce prior authorizations – a process that is often a major pain point for patients and providers when ...