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Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Though hospital performance has remained relatively stable, high labor costs continue to challenge hospitals’ bottom line, according to September figures from Kaufman Hall. Labor expenses from providers accounted for 84% of medical groups’ total expenses.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Medicare Advantage patients account for fewer avoidable hospitalizations. Here's why rking Mon, 02/27/2023 - 17:41
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Handwashing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. |
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 4, 2022
Of the 43% of organizations that reported a data breach in the past two years, 88% said at least one connected device was a contributing factor to the breach, according to a new report.
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Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Post-ACA hospital readmission gains evaporate when accounting for observation stays, study finds. Mon, 11/28/2022 - 14:46.
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Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 22, 2024
million) funding to launch a network of remote ICUs in regional hospitals next year. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Based on a media release, at the core of this network is an integrated control centre for monitoring the status and condition of patients in ICUs in small and medium hospitals. billion won ($1.7
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Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Charity care accounts for less than 1.4% of operating expenses at half of US hospitals, KFF finds. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 17:05.
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Healthcare It News
MARCH 21, 2025
Past employers and clients have included Johns Hopkins Medicine International, Stanford Children's, Sutter Health, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Alberta Health Services, Hamilton Health Sciences, University Health Network and others.
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Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
So as we come together with the hospital systems we mentioned, we’re generally gaining programs, we’re enlarging our footprint. In a lot of cases, the home-based care isn’t accountable. Certainly, there’s accountability to CMS for quality and those sorts of things. I wasn’t surprised by that.
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Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
The virtual-first approach to healthcare that some hospitals and health systems are taking is helping to reshape how patients receive care. How does a virtual-first approach to healthcare help hospitals and health systems enable greater accessibility to care?
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 23, 2025
As healthcare continues to advance with accountable care organizations and value-based care models, the industry is starting to see some real traction after a decade of groundwork in the form of CMS claims for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. There are some critical elements driving success here.
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 10, 2024
" He said the time a pharmacist spends following up with doctors about their prescriptions should also be accounted for. Demonstrating benefits The panel also discussed challenges and best practices in hospital and health data integration and sharing. For Dr Appannan, it depends on the type of case.
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Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has partnered with Vital to integrate an artificial intelligence-driven tool called ERAdvisor that can improve the patient-family experience with clarity and predictability. Vital said it offers four AI tools to serve hospital emergency departments, inpatient stays and ongoing care.
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Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 6, 2024
This week on “Podnosis” we're discussing a new payment model that could affect thousands o | This week on “Podnosis” we're discussing a new payment model that could affect thousands of hospitals across the country. It's called TEAM, and it stands for Transforming Episode Accountability Model.
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 12, 2024
Because of this, providers have a hard time giving estimates, so patients often are forced to make decisions about their care without knowing how it will impact their bank account. Every business should prefer getting paid faster and have funds deposited directly into your bank account without additional manual intervention.
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Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 25, 2024
Four in five nonprofit hospitals are spending less on community benefit areas like financial assistance than what they are estimated to receive in tax breaks, according to the latest annual report | Even after accounting for discounted care and community benefit investments, the money 2,425 nonprofit hospitals saved through tax breaks in 2021 would (..)
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Citrus ACO in Central West Florida had the highest savings rate, while Health Connect Partners — an ACO operated by hospital giant Providence — had the highest total savings in the Medicare Shared Savings Program last year.
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HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
What You Should Know: – Hospital and health system finances have shown signs of stability over the past year, but rising labor costs continue to put pressure on the bottom line, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report and Physician Flash Report f rom Kaufman Hall.
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Healthcare It News
MARCH 17, 2025
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 600 research and clinical labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education.
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Healthcare It News
MARCH 4, 2022
Patients are increasingly opting to recover in the home instead of a hospital or rehab facility, which requires care coordination. For example, one study of patients discharged from the hospital with a home health referral showed that 46% did not receive home health services within 14 days of discharge. This is hard to do.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Researchers analyzed HHS data on the Provider Relief Fund and found hospitals serving fewer patients with employer-sponsored insurance received less funding.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 17, 2024
Independent practices have clearer financial incentives to lower medical spending than hospitals participating in accountable care organizations, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Myongji Hospital, a tertiary healthcare institution in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province, is developing an AI-driven care robot to assist patients with dementia. The hospital will also craft cognitive intervention content. By 2050, people aged 65 and older will potentially account for over 40% of the entire population.
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Healthcare It News
MARCH 10, 2023
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, is the only hospital in the state of Nebraska exclusively dedicated to pediatric care, serving a five-state region. In 2022, it nearly doubled its capacity with the opening of the Hubbard Center for Children, adding 100 beds for a total of 243 beds.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Ron Wyden, Oregon, and Mark Warner, Virginia, introduced the Healthcare Information Security and Accountability Act on Thursday to beef up cybersecurity for hospitals.
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Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that more than half of adolescent patient portal accounts with outbound messages were accessed by guardians. All three institutions allow adolescents to have their own MyChart accounts through the Epic EHR. WHY IT MATTERS.
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Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago had only two entry points for patients looking to receive care – calling the centralized access center or walking into the emergency room. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. 91% of patients have logged into their portal account within three months of an encounter.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 27, 2021
Business associates such as claims processors are also a prime target for hackers, and now account for 43% of all healthcare breaches, according to the report from Critical Insight.
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HIT Consultant
JANUARY 22, 2025
Other high-volume groups like INC Ransom (21.7%) and BianLian (15%) also demonstrate a strong focus on healthcare, posing a significant threat to hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare providers.
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Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. Increase staff and operational efficiency Real-time location solutions (RTLS) and cloud-based systems support various productivity and efficiency goals in hospitals and medical practices.
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Healthcare It News
APRIL 2, 2025
Louis, Missouri, with 23 hospitals and more than 650 physician offices serving Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. "While we had a strong presence digitally, our patient experience needed to improve to meet the needs of consumers, especially mobile users who account for about two-thirds of our traffic," he continued.
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 13, 2023
A jump in claim delays and denials is “wreaking havoc on providers’ revenue cycle performance” and contributing to health systems’ “volatile” accounts receivable and diminishing cash reserves, acco | More frequent pushback from commercial and Medicare Advantage payers is complicating patient self-pay collections and, ultimately, undermining the revenues (..)
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Healthcare It News
MARCH 7, 2025
Baptist Health, based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a faith-based, nonprofit health system comprising six hospitals with more than 1,100 beds, a cancer center, four satellite emergency departments, and more than 200 patient access points of care throughout northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.
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Home Health Care
DECEMBER 4, 2024
It accounts for about $150 billion of the health sector today, and we expect this figure to climb substantially by the end of the decade. Nearly 80% of these cases avoid hospitalization, and we expect to expand this capability to a broader mix of patients in the years ahead.” By then, 20% of the US population will be 65 or older.
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HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 1, 2024
Itzik Cohen, CEO at PayZen Hospitals serve as the lifeblood of our communities, delivering essential healthcare services to millions while also providing critical jobs nationwide. Nearly 40% of American hospitals expect to continue losing money from operations into 2024, with almost 80% operating at or near break-even.
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Healthcare It News
MARCH 13, 2023
If an individual did more than create an account – such as take the online assessment – "the information disclosed may also have included the service the individual selected, assessment responses and certain associated health information," Cerebral added.
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Healthcare It News
MAY 20, 2022
Through the new partnership, hospitals and health systems – including VA hospitals – using Get Well digital health technology will be able to give their patients access to Health Journeys' full catalog of meditations. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 3, 2023
In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. The association said the rule has resulted in consequences that contravene OCR's efforts to encourage hospitals to share non-private healthcare information with the public.
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Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The data breach affecting the Texas-based system of 16 hospitals is unrelated to the massive ransomware attack on its parent company, CommonSpirit Health. However, further investigation revealed that email accounts for two of its employees, hacked into on November 5, 2021, did contain St. Unaware for nearly a year.
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Healthcare It News
APRIL 22, 2024
The private Sydney Adventist Hospital (the San) in Sydney's north is an early adopter of the NSW Cancer Institute's guideline for anticancer drug dosing in kidney dysfunction (ADDIKD). Cloud-based technology has enabled one healthcare provider's swift transition to a new cancer treatment guideline.
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Readiness Rounds
MARCH 28, 2025
4 Quick Fixes to Improve Hospital SecurityAnd How SecureFlow Makes Them Effortless In the wake of another hospital shooting , healthcare leaders are once again confronted with the uncomfortable truth: most hospitals still dont know who is in their building at any given time. Ready to Put These Fixes into Action?
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NASHP
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Data Covers More than 4,600 Hospitals – Now with Prescription Drug Costs and Charges As state policymakers seek to ensure greater affordability for consumers, NASHPs Hospital Cost Tool (HCT) offers multiple measures to help better understand health care costs. In this version, NASHP has included 2023 hospital cost data.
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p3care
JANUARY 8, 2025
In this sum, clinical services and physicians account for 23.4 %. Moreover, this development also reflects that healthcare providers are moving towards outsourcing the billing services for their practices either hospitals or independent clinics.
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Readiness Rounds
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Wayfindingthe process of guiding visitors through physical spaces to their destinationsis a pivotal component of hospital management that directly influences patient experience and operational efficiency. We will delve into why patient experience, particularly through the lens of wayfinding, is crucial for hospitals today.
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