Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

KFF: System-wide costs of preventable COVID-19 hospitalizations nearly tripled to $5.7B Tue, 09/14/2021 - 11:34.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

More than 280,000 hospitalizations from COVID-19 between June and August could have been prevented by vaccination, researchers found.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Singapore's Health Promotion Board has partnered with several technology companies to pilot programmes that aim to promote self-health management by delivering data-driven, personalised recommendations for preventing and managing chronic diseases.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

Many providers and patients are reporting the artificial intelligence helping with preventative care and preventing non-emergent emergency department visits. How can hospitals and health systems harness ChatGPT and other LLM-based technologies to improve patient care?

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

After the ransomware attack at CommonSpirit, cybersecurity experts share the top ways health systems can protect valuable patient data.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 8, 2023

The medical associations said preventive health services are essential to increase longevity and quality of life, and that medical evidence should dictate preventive care recommendations rather than political considerations.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Alexandra Hospital has taken part in the launch of a new cloud-based digital health service in Singapore by telecommunications provider StarHub, together with its partners, health technology company ConnectedLife and Fitbit. WHAT IT DOES. The LifeHub+ app delivers insights into users' health and wellness to help improve their conditions.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care, and genomic data-driven personalised care are some of the emerging trends in care in the Asia-Pacific region. "Patients don't have to [travel] all the way to be hospitalised and then centralised in the hospital. " he asked.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Healthcare workers in children's hospitals had the highest vaccination rates, along with those working in metropolitan counties, according to the analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication. However, heat-related deaths are preventable, and these new technologies are a valuable contribution to public health practice. We have a registry, so we have a list of who these patients are and through GPs who have a record of all their patients they actively survey them.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 19, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s campaign against healthcare worker burnout took a step forward this week with the release of a new instructional guide for executive-level hos | The free resource was developed alongside the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation and informed by a six-month, six-hospital pilot across CommonSpirit (..)

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

" Agentic AI partners focusing on health Vantiq, an AI-driven platform, announced Tuesday that it is partnering with the professional service firm Huron to develop advanced agentic AI with an initial focus on healthcare and transforming hospital operations.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This initiative is designed to prevent low-acuity admissions from emergency departments and help reduce readmissions after patient discharge. The partnership has reportedly achieved remarkable early results, preventing initial admissions or 15-day readmissions for 92% of patients referred from the emergency department and observation units.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Data from the new hospital-at-home platform will be accessible through Orlando Health's Epic electronic health records through a multi-year agreement with the connected health and digital therapeutics company.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hospitals and health systems have been discussing digital-first patient engagement for a while now, but fewer organizations than you might think have made huge strides forward on that front. You cite digital-first patient engagement as a major issue for hospitals and health systems in 2025.

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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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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2025

It has increasingly become evident that digitalisation – from nationwide networks down to individual hospitals – has become the rule in a post-pandemic world. Meanwhile, government hospitals in Thailand have [started installing] telemedicine kiosks to [provide more] healthcare coverage.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 19, 2024

Infectious disease professionals are calling for greater federal funding in the face of new Centers for Disease Contral and Prevention (CDC) data outlining an uptick in antimicrobial-resistant path | Seven antimicrobial-resistant, hospital-onset infection rates remained 20% higher in 2022 from prepandemic levels.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the first-ever federal campaign encouraging hospitals to track and address burnout across their workforces.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest safety net health system in the United States, serving more than one million patients annually, including the most vulnerable New Yorkers. In order to launch this service, NYC Health + Hospitals needed a telehealth platform that could flexibly support audio and video modalities. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Online suicide prevention tool for farmers goes live A new website was launched to provide well-being support and suicide prevention resources to farmers. The Well-being Index app is one of the three health and wellbeing initiatives being implemented by Canberra Health Services to promote staff well-being and prevent burnout.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 5, 2022

The rural emergency hospital designation is expected to help prevent facility closures and maintain access to crucial healthcare services.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Princess Alexandra Hospital offers data for medication harm research A research project from the University of Queensland School of Pharmacy has started collaborating with the Princess Alexandra Hospital to use digital technologies in reducing rehospitalisation cases due to medication harm.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2024

Marketing the importance of preventive healthcare services is challenging, costly, and often conflicts with consumer behavior. Despite these hurdles, the urgency to promote prevention has never been greater. It was designed to solve health problems and treat diseases rather than encourage prevention.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Valley Health System is constructing a new hospital in Paramus, New Jersey – presenting an opportunity to transform healthcare delivery for the surrounding communities. "This aids patients in recalling interactions, addressing common queries about the presence of specific staff members and enhancing overall patient experience."

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Louisville-based ScionHealth system, the combined LifePoint Health and Kindred Healthcare delivery network, and Cadence, a New York-based healthcare technology company, are implementing a remote patient monitoring platform starting with 18 community hospitals in 12 states. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Health systems had to navigate two conflicting financial models: fee-for-service, which incentivized volume and procedures, and value-based care, which prioritizes preventive care and keeping patients healthy. Boosting adherence by just a few percentage points can lead to significantly fewer hospitalizations and better outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Experts predict by 2035, up to 50% of healthcare will be delivered in the home, including hospital-at-home models where patients receive hospital-grade care in their own homes. This proactive care can prevent complications, ultimately improving patient outcomes. By that same year, 26% of the U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 6, 2024

The White House is calling on hospital executives, doctors and other healthcare leaders to take bolder steps to prevent gun violence by gathering more data about gunshot injuries and routinely coun | In 1996, Congress cut federal funding for gun control research by the CDC, essentially shifting the responsibility for funding and conducting the research (..)

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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. Leaders adopt emerging medtech to support short- and long-term cost-reduction and error-prevention goals. It can assist with many preventive-care measures.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 24, 2021

Roughly 113,000 of the 185,000 inpatient stays with a COVID-19 diagnosis, or about 61%, could have been prevented by vaccination in June and July, researchers estimated.

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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. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2024

Island Hospital, a private quaternary hospital in Malaysia, is providing a case for this by building an integrated health ecosystem that fosters cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders. Island Hospital is using Vesalius, the hospital and clinical information system by Nova. its mobile patient application.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

The hospital-at-home (HaH) model of care has gained significant momentum in recent years and is transforming how care is delivered to patients. Additionally, technological advancements are revolutionizing health care, enabling patients to receive excellent services at home rather than in hospitals.

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Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

by Stephen Wood In an era where health care inequities already burden marginalized populations, the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care culminating in the closure of several hospitals in Massachusetts, represents an unconscionable ethical failure. At the outset, politicians ignored the risk of for-profit health care in poverty-stricken markets.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

based Children's National Hospital Telemedicine team identified a disparity in access to the internet and digital tools that disproportionately affects low-income and rural communities, causing a digital divide. With more than two decades of telemedicine experience and research, the Washington, D.C.-based

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