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Expiration of hospital-at-home, telehealth policies threatens nonprofit hospitals' recovery: Fitch

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Not-for-profit hospital and health systems are slowly recovering from their worst year financially in 2022. |

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Kaufman Hall: Performance stable, but high labor costs challenge hospitals

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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Hospitals no longer required to report COVID-19 data to CDC

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 30, 2024

Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals were required to share COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity and other related data on a daily basis during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, then the reporting frequency shifted.

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AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare's cyberattack

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Nearly every hospital is feeling the consequences of Change Healthcare’s cyberattack on their finances, patient care delivery, or both, according to reports from almost 1,000 hospitals compiled by | Almost 60% of surveyed hospitals reported at least $1 million of impacted revenues per day, and 74% said that the incident has had "direct" implications (..)

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A Guide to Virtual Care Technology: 5 Steps to Creating Your Continuum of Care

This guide addresses the increased demand for and benefits of expanding your virtual care options to help retain patients, cut down on hospital readmissions, and expand revenue opportunities. 5 steps to create your complete care continuum. 5 ways a virtual care platform improves ROI.

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Nationwide hospital mortality risk fell as acuity, volumes rose, report finds

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Hospital patients’ risk of death has fallen substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic and the months preceding it, even as hospitals are treating more and sicker patients, according to a new report | An analysis of 715 hospitals' patient safety metrics showed that patients hospitalized in Q1 2024 were about 22% more likely to survive as compared (..)

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Teladoc Health launches AI motion detection solution to improve patient safety in hospital beds

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Teladoc Health launched an AI-enabled technology that allows hospital staff to virtually detect when a patient is at risk of falling from a hospital bed. Teladoc Health launched its new motion detection solution, vSitter, which allows staff to virtually observe patients and detect if they are at risk of falling out of the hospital bed.

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Steward’s bankruptcy documents reveal sprawling debt, planned hospital fire sale

Health Care Dive

MAY 7, 2024

Since filing for bankruptcy Monday, Steward Health Care revealed it's carrying more than $1 billion in debt and said its entire hospital portfolio is for sale.

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Thailand’s Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi clinches HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi from Thailand has been validated for Stage 7 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The EMRAM measures the clinical outcomes, patient engagement, and clinician use of EMR technology in a hospital or health facility.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Physician-owned hospitals' negotiated, cash prices lower than nearby facilities, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 22, 2023

Physician-owned general acute care hospitals charge less than other non-physician-owned facilities in their region for several common shoppable care services, according to a new analysis published | A new analysis of competing hospitals' published prices adds fuel to the debate over whether Congress should lift the Affordable Care Act's ban (..)

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More than 700 rural hospitals at risk of closing: report

Health Care Dive

AUGUST 7, 2024

One challenge hospitals face is reimbursement from private payers, which doesn’t cover the higher costs of care in rural areas, according to a report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.

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RAND: Hospitals charged insurers 254% more than Medicare rates in 2022

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 13, 2024

The gap between insurance plans and Medicare's payments to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services widened over the course of just a couple of years, a new study from RAND Corporation | A new report from RAND Corporation highlighted just how much more employers and private insurers are paying hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services. (..)

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Hospital price transparency continues to drop: report

Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

of hospitals are in full compliance with federal price transparency rules, according to Patient Rights Advocate. Just 21.1% Compliance has been backsliding since July 2023.

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Trinity Health hospitals file parallel lawsuits calling anesthesiology group's non-competes unlawful

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Two of Trinity Health’s affiliate hospitals mounted lawsuits against a large anesthesia group alleging that non-compete and non-solicitation clauses included in its providers’ contracts restrict co | The latest pushback against large anesthesiology groups' market power and practices alleges "millions of dollars" in damages for each hospital (..)

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Project to launch Vietnam's first AI virtual hospital announced

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

An Australian biotechnology company is building what could be the first AI-driven hospital in Vietnam. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The MedArmor AI Hospital will pursue a preventive healthcare model, emphasising early disease detection and timely interventions. It will be underpinned by AI and virtual care technologies.

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Florida hospitals again evacuating patients ahead of second hurricane in 2 weeks

Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Facing a second major storm within two weeks, some hospitals on Florida's Gulf Coast are again closing up shop and transferring patients across the state.

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The IT strategy behind a groundbreaking new $2B pediatric hospital

Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2024

Blank Hospital is scheduled to open this September. It is one of the largest and most advanced pediatric hospitals in the world. Blank Hospital. What was the overarching health IT strategy that went into creating the hospital from the ground up? Blank Hospital opening in September. Blank Hospital.

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Physicians, hospitals decry 2025 Medicare payment rates

Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Meanwhile, reimbursement for hospital outpatient departments is rising 2.9%. Physicians will see their Medicare reimbursement fall 2.9% next year if Congress doesn’t stop the cuts.

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Global IT outage takes down health system EHRs, forces hospitals to cancel non-emergency services

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 19, 2024

A widespread outage to Microsoft systems has impacted health systems, hospitals and clinics as electronic health record software has been knocked offline, forcing providers to cancel non-emergency | A widespread outage to Microsoft systems has impacted health systems, hospitals and clinics as electronic health record software has been knocked offline, (..)

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Hospitals' patient experience, preventable infection improving after pandemic struggles, Leapfrog finds

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2024

The latest batch of Hospital Safety Grades from independent watchdog The Leapfrog Group suggest that patients’ care experiences, which deteriorated during and since the pandemic, may finally be tur | New data from the watchdog reflecting CMS-reported patient safety measures show that hospitals are, on average, working their way back from patient experience (..)

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Half of rural hospitals are losing money. Rising MA enrollment likely won't help them, Chartis warns

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As more and more rural hospitals find their operations dropping into the red, the rising enrollment of rural residents in Medicare Advantage plans could pull these providers under, healthcare advis | A new analysis found the largest-ever single-year jump in rural hospitals operating in the red and a nearly 50% rise in Medicare Advantage enrollment (..)

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AHA, H-ISAC warn hospitals about Black Basta following Ascension cyberattack

Healthcare It News

MAY 13, 2024

Prompted by H-ISAC, the American Hospital Association also sent a cybersecurity advisory with technical mitigation recommendations to its members. The AHA has warned its member hospitals that it is urgent to heed H-ISAC's recommendations on defending against the emerging threat.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 20, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) research funding agency is floating more than $50 million to developers who can build a scalable cybersecurity platform able to keep hospitals' c | The UPGRADE program will be handing out millions to those with the best pitches on how to detect hospital cybersecurity weaknesses and deploy fixes (..)

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Hospital-backed proposal would make insurers reveal prior auth denial rates

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recommendation on the 2024 Measures Under Consideration list, brought forward by the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), would add a quality measure in the Medicare Advantage (MA) star rating | The Federation of American Hospitals is pushing CMS for the inclusion of a star ratings quality measure that shows how often insurers overturn or uphold (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has been working through a “cybersecurity matter” since Wednesday that has led the organization to take its phone, email and Epic MyChart systems offline, accor | Illinois' largest pediatric care provider said it took down its systems preemptively on Wednesday, leading to disruptions across its hospital and (..)

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Children’s Hospital LA launches AI-driven ER patient app

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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Hospital orgs join cross-industry appeal for FTC to delay noncompete ban implementation

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 28, 2024

Hospital lobbies have signed onto a multi-sector letter of 230 industry associations and chambers of commerce urging the Federal Trade Commission to bump the effective date of its ban on employee n | The American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals are among 230 groups urging the regulator to put the final rule on hold pending (..)

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JULY 18, 2024

The hospital industry is warning that a proposed mandatory model for kidney transplants could introduce “unnecessary disruption and uncertainty to the transplant ecosystem” and ultimately undercut | Hospital lobbyists wrote that the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model "is not fully developed and contains fundamental flaws” that would (..)

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Expiration of hospital-at-home, telehealth policies threatens nonprofit hospitals' recovery: Fitch

Kaufman Hall: Performance stable, but high labor costs challenge hospitals

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Hospitals no longer required to report COVID-19 data to CDC

AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare's cyberattack

A Guide to Virtual Care Technology: 5 Steps to Creating Your Continuum of Care

Nationwide hospital mortality risk fell as acuity, volumes rose, report finds

Teladoc Health launches AI motion detection solution to improve patient safety in hospital beds

Steward’s bankruptcy documents reveal sprawling debt, planned hospital fire sale

Thailand’s Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi clinches HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7

A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

Physician-owned hospitals' negotiated, cash prices lower than nearby facilities, study finds

More than 700 rural hospitals at risk of closing: report

RAND: Hospitals charged insurers 254% more than Medicare rates in 2022

Hospital price transparency continues to drop: report

Trinity Health hospitals file parallel lawsuits calling anesthesiology group's non-competes unlawful

Project to launch Vietnam's first AI virtual hospital announced

Florida hospitals again evacuating patients ahead of second hurricane in 2 weeks

The IT strategy behind a groundbreaking new $2B pediatric hospital

Physicians, hospitals decry 2025 Medicare payment rates

Global IT outage takes down health system EHRs, forces hospitals to cancel non-emergency services

Hospitals' patient experience, preventable infection improving after pandemic struggles, Leapfrog finds

Half of rural hospitals are losing money. Rising MA enrollment likely won't help them, Chartis warns

AHA, H-ISAC warn hospitals about Black Basta following Ascension cyberattack

US hospitals prep for supply chain constraints in wake of Baxter International plant closure

Medicare Advantage's growth a bad omen for hospitals, S&P Global warns

M&A or affiliation improved rural hospitals' margins, reduced risk of closure: report

Medicare hospital trust fund extended by five years to 2036

HHS' ARPA-H offering more than $50M for hospital cybersecurity platform pitches

Hospital-backed proposal would make insurers reveal prior auth denial rates

Ways and Means Committee's rural care markups win hospital industry praise

Lawmakers mull lifting ban on physician-owned hospitals as doc lobbying groups claim major cost savings

CMS, HHS can use existing federal authority to regulate AI safety in hospitals: JAMA

Enhancing hospital IT's speed-to-market capability

Hospital mergers tied to increased layoffs, reduced tax revenues: report

Adverse events increased after hospitals acquired by private equity, study finds

'Cybersecurity matter' forces Lurie Children's Hospital to take communications, MyChart offline

Children’s Hospital LA launches AI-driven ER patient app

Hospital orgs join cross-industry appeal for FTC to delay noncompete ban implementation

Ardent Health struggles to get systems back online as hospitals reopen emergency rooms

Most rural hospitals aren't offering labor and delivery services, forcing mothers to travel

Hospital groups blast senators' site-neutral Medicare payment reform plan

Hospital M&A studies highlight higher prices, tepid antitrust intervention

CDC releases field-tested guidance for hospital CEOs tackling their workers' mental health

Hospitals push back on CMS' proposed mandatory organ transplant model

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