Hospitals and clinics in Arkansas face increasingly difficult staffing and cost challenges, ACHI Health Policy Director Craig Wilson writes in his latest column for Talk Business and Politics. Read More
The Arkansas Healthcare Transparency Initiative Act of 2015 (“Act”) supports the efforts of the Arkansas all-payer claims database (APCD) project by establishing a mandate for certain entities to submit healthcare data. Read More
Arkansas is ranked 44th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for overall health system performance in a new report by The Commonwealth Fund. Read More
A statistical brief released earlier this year by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality finds that Arkansas has high rates of inpatient stays for certain mental health disorders and identifies the regions of the states that are most impacted. Read More
Weighted blankets and swaddles, crib bumper pads, and inclined sleep surfaces are unsafe for infants and should not be used where infants sleep, according to newly updated safe-sleep recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Read More
The Arkansas Healthcare Transparency Initiative (HTI) was established in 2015 to provide a source of informative healthcare data to support consumers, researchers, and policymakers. The Arkansas All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) is one of the tools in the HTI used to accomplish these efforts. Read More
