Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At 8% of hospitals, it made up 0.1% The new analysis found wide variations in charity care. or less of operating expenses.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2024

What You Should Know: – The healthcare industry faces a growing threat: cyberattacks targeting hospital IT systems. – The success of UPGRADE has the potential to significantly improve hospital cybersecurity and protect patient care from cyber threats. .

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. " Here are some tips for how health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital-at-home. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) announced plans to build an independent, freestanding cancer hospital—a first-in-the-region move with rami | The collaboration will yield the Boston area's only free-standing adult cancer hospital.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The South Korean government seeks to streamline access to the personal health records of over eight million patients held in tertiary general hospitals in a single platform by next year. WHAT IT'S ABOUT My Healthway allows Koreans to view their medical records in a standardised format from various hospitals. million patients.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

Sikkim hospital upgrades to smart connected beds The Central Referral Hospital of the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences-Tadong has tied up with Dozee to enable continuous patient monitoring. It is said that the upgrade is part of CRH's initiatives to transition to a smart hospital.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Today, many hospitals rely on Wi-Fi and public cellular for connectivity even though the limits of current Wi-Fi solutions are being reached. The mandates of improving quality of care and lowering costs mean that hospital IT directors should consider deploying new, private 5G networks.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2023

Patient transitions from the hospital to post-acute care providers, including home health agencies, continue to be plagued by incomplete medical records and missing information. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is calling out hospitals for putting patients and their families in harm’s way. “CMS

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Home Health Care

APRIL 14, 2022

based Georgetown Home Care (GHC) has yet again lowered readmission rates for a major hospital. Its readmission success ostensibly began in 2019 when the home care agency first worked with spinal surgery patients at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. They kept seeing data on the readmission problem with hospitals.

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Nordic

JUNE 21, 2023

This edition of The Remedy reviews a brief history of the hospital IT department, digital health’s current state as partners in care, and what the future could hold for health IT.

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KHN

APRIL 29, 2022

More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. But customers must opt in to the feature, so it is likely unused in many hospitals. “It seems inherently safer.”

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On June 6, 2023, CMS posted QSO-23-16-Hospitals. CMS has identified areas of concern related to missing or inaccurate patient information when a patient is discharged from a hospital. risk of falls, family or caregiving involvement/availability, homelessness, etc.).

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 27, 2022

Kaiser Health News published this eye-opening piece – Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients. Hospital patients not getting their teeth brushed, or not brushing their teeth themselves, is believed to be a leading cause of hundreds of thousands of cases of pneumonia a year in patients who have not been put on a ventilator.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2023

"The findings in this year’s Ponemon report are, unfortunately, not surprising as ransomware continues to shut down hospital operations and disrupt care at an alarming rate,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, in a statement. They also found that it helped them to respond to and recover from ransomware attacks.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has also been integrated with the hospital group's web-based PAS. These additions provide "significant efficiency improvement" for hospitals. These features are the latest addition to its epi-me online patient admissions portal, also by EpiSoft.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2024

THE PROBLEM Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center (TBRHSC) staff know that with limited health resources throughout Northwestern Ontario, it's very important they work together across all hospitals that provide surgical services to improve access to care for remote and rural patients. They understand us and what we are trying to do."

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Nordic

JULY 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has illuminated a critical vulnerability: cybercriminals are now targeting hospital IT service desks, leveraging advanced social engineering tactics to devastating effect. A recent alert from the U.S.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2023

Episode Introduction As hospitals struggle with spiraling costs, Lisa Miller reveals seven key ways to save money in the next 12 months. So I feel like that’s an innovation for hospitals. But I want to give you one more nuanced thought….Could … my number one advice is to pull those projects together…. Innovative positions.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

According to the World Economic Forum, hospitals produce around 50 petabytes of data per year. And with 6,039 hospitals in the US alone, that amounts to a sizeable amount of data requiring secure storage. Hospitals are sitting ducks. Find out how they keep hospitals flowing here. Here are some key considerations. .

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KHN

APRIL 29, 2022

More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. But customers must opt in to the feature, so it is likely unused in many hospitals. “It seems inherently safer.”

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At Medicity, we were serving 1,300 hospitals, facilitating lots of data exchange across hospitals, primary care and labs, but nothing we were doing was ever going to touch the home and community. And, unfortunately, when people end up in a hospital, returning home is often easier said than done. Healthcare is hard.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2024

He also outlines the importance of recognizing patterns and trends in data, how a snow accumulator saved tens of thousands of dollars for one hospital, and why every CFO should care about recovery audits. We understand that the hospitals need it, so do suppliers. Time is our biggest thief, right. Time is our biggest thief, right.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Across hospital settings, IT infrastructure has not kept pace with ultrasound innovation. Despite the many benefits of POCUS, the opportunity for wider implementation is hindered because today’s POCUS tools do not seamlessly integrate with existing hospital IT infrastructure.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

DECEMBER 11, 2023

1 Profits generated from billing insurers for discounted drugs, recently valued at almost $50 billion,today, 2750 hospitals are enrolled in the program Not only can a hospital’s in-house pharmacy participate in 340B, but so can contracted outpatient pharmacy.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

– Unity Health has experienced substantial growth since starting out as a small community hospital. Its health system today includes three acute care community hospitals, as well as a long-term acute care facility. The organization will go LIVE with Expanse in 2022.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2022

Tampa General Hospital has thrown its hat into the home-based care ring. To pull this off, the hospital has formed a partnership with the Visiting Nurse Association of Florida (VNA), a home health agency. Tampa General Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center and one of the largest hospitals in the U.S.

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Health Business Group

MAY 16, 2024

Explore the professional journey of BK Nayak , the innovative leader behind Spikewell , whose advancements are revolutionizing hospital IT solutions. This episode also explores Spikewell's mission to customize IT systems for hospitals, utilizing AI to enhance efficiency and adaptability.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The written or electronic notice shall contain the following text: “The Open Payments database is a federal tool used to search payments made by drug and device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals. It can be found here.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

" Hackensack Meridian implemented the Nordis/TD Bank program at its flagship hospital several years ago. As the health system merged and added hospitals, it rolled out the technology to align workflows, processes and technologies. Today it's in place across the health system, in all 12 hospitals.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Advocate Health cares for about 6 million patients annually through about 150,000 employees, over 1,000 sites of care and 67 hospitals. Among other at-home service areas, the organization also has hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home programs. The goal is ultimately to build those capabilities on top of each other.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It has essentially gone from being a home health provider to a technology company that enables health systems and hospitals to deliver higher-acuity care in the home. Most recently, the company teamed up with Community Hospital Consulting in order to tackle care disparities in rural communities. We’ve contracted with hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

The lack of data interoperability is a big headache for clinicians and hospitals. Patients echo these concerns, with 35% expressing worries about clinicians' limited access to their relevant health data. It disrupts workflows and slows treatment.

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p3care

JUNE 24, 2022

For how long they have been providing medical billing services to the hospitals. For how long they have been providing medical billing services to the hospitals. Before all this, you need to keep the following questions in your mind. Here are some questions which every healthcare provider needs to ask a medical billing company.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 26, 2022

By working with Intel, DiA was able to optimize the processing time of its AI-based models by over 40% percent when running on local hospital IT infrastructure based on Intel CPUs, without requiring the use of a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) or integration of more complex IT infrastructures. .

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 5, 2024

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 put providers on notice that quality of care measures, like reducing hospital readmissions and improving patient outcomes, would take precedence over fee-for-service models. More than $52.4

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There are huge opportunities for hospitals to review their contract management , to self-contract, to be bold and visionary. Hospitals need to do what’s best for the hospital and its patients. Hospitals need to do what’s best for the hospital and its patients. Every Hospital Needs a Margin Improvement Team.

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