Hospital mergers led to diminished quality of care, Elevance study finds
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 2, 2023
The study from the Blues payer is the latest finding hospital acquisitions lead to increased readmissions and higher costs for patients.
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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Covenant Health advances hospital-at-home program
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. As many as 20-30% of the Knoxville-based health system's patients could receive virtual care through the program. "The food is better, and I can be around my family," Slone said.
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MA enrollees have fewer hospitalizations, Harvard study finds
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have better quality of care and health outcomes than traditional fee-for-service counterparts, researchers from Harvard Medical School found.
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How hospitals should engage in the 'information war'
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
A report out this week from Boston Digital examines the role that original digital libraries of health topics can play in hospitals' web-traffic performance. hospitals, as ranked by U.S. available on the hospital’s top-level domain. Among the top 20 U.S. They should be: comprehensive. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.
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University Hospitals puts a bow on new Epic EHR rollout
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Cleveland-based University Hospitals this week announced that it had completed its years-long migration to a single Epic electronic health record across its care sites. THE LARGER TREND University Hospitals joins several other major health systems nationwide that have made the full-on switch to an all-Epic system.
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Patients of color disproportionately suffer adverse health events, regardless of hospital safety ratings
Health Care Dive
JUNE 7, 2023
Rather than suggesting problems with individual hospitals, the data points to a “systemic issue impacting the quality of care for Black and Hispanic patients and those with public insurance plans,” according to a new Leapfrog report.
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FTC tells states to avoid shielding hospital mergers from antitrust enforcement
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 16, 2022
A report released Monday compiles research that shows arrangements, called Certificates of Public Advantage, result in higher prices, lower quality of care and lower wage growth for employees.
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Deep dive: A tour of all-digital Oklahoma Heart Hospital, where automation is the norm
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Oklahoma Heart Hospital was founded in 2002 with the idea of being something truly different – an all-digital hospital with a heavy focus on the patient experience and the latest automation that would change the way healthcare is delivered. David Miles is chief information officer at Oklahoma Heart Hospital.
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Srisawan Hospital pursues further digitalisation through partnerships with GE Healthcare, InterSystems
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Srisawan Hospital, a private tertiary healthcare provider in Thailand, is stepping up on its digitalisation efforts to further raise its quality of care provision and hospital experience. Meanwhile, the TrakCare implementation is also being planned for its Nakhon Sawan hospital soon. WHY IT MATTERS.
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Does the 340B program improve quality of care?
Healthcare ECONOMIST
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
2023 , the answer is ‘no’ The authors use data from AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Data, Hospital Cost Reporting Information System Data, Office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System Data, and American Hospital Association Annual Survey for 15 states between 2008 to 2014.
Roundup: Sheba Medical Center launches remote monitoring program, ORCHA creates digital health academy and more
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Israel’s Sheba Medical Center and the Heart Institute at Safra Children's Hospital have partnered to launch a programme for children with complex heart defects. ” Healthtech startup Cerebriu partners with Danish hospital. ” Dublin teaching hospital upgrades pathology system.
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CommonSpirit still working to restore EHR systems after ransomware attack confirmed
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 14, 2022
A major ransomware attack at CommonSpirit Health has been disrupting medical operations across several states for nearly two weeks , leaving the Chicago-based health system scrambling to maintain patient care while it conducts a forensics investigation and works to bring its electronic health record systems back online. WHY IT MATTERS.
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Under Two-Sided Risk Models, Quality Of Care Increases Compared To FFS Medicare
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Data examinations are beginning to shed greater insight on just how much better value-based payment models are for quality of care. When comparing two-sided risk models in Medicare Advantage (MA) versus fee-for-service Medicare programs, the former performed better in all eight quality-of-care metrics.
Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 10, 2023
The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND. Email: afox@himss.org.
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Healthcare applications for private cellular networks
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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Compliantly supercharge your hospital’s bottom line
Health Care Dive
JUNE 3, 2024
Transforming your hospital's Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) program from a cost center to a strategic center can enhance financial performance, mitigate risks and improve overall quality of care.
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The future of telemedicine: purpose-built, integrated platforms
Healthcare It News
MARCH 1, 2022
This allows emergency medicine provider care to be rendered at the EMS scene, preventing unnecessary transport and expense for minor conditions and first responder consultation for complicated conditions. Direct-to-patient care: Telemedicine platforms can be integrated with providers’ websites.
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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars
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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Bot MD powers data collection, enhances doctor experience in Indonesia
Healthcare It News
MARCH 17, 2023
WHAT IT'S ABOUT The startup signed a memorandum of understanding with Siloam Hospitals Group to automate and scale patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) across its hospital chain by powering Siloam's WhatsApp with the Bot MD Care AI chatbot.
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Verizon Business and Visionable team up to empower next generation healthcare with 5G
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
These environments will showcase the end-to-end care pathway from smart ambulances, control centres, hospital wards, General Practices (GPs) consultation rooms to care homes. The service harnesses the adaptability of mobile devices to allow doctors and hospitals to provide more virtual visits and consultations.
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In 2025, look for more digital-first patient engagement and data-driven decisions
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. It's a win-win for everyone involved.
Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients. On paper, value-based care should be an easy sell for hospitals.
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The Corporatization of Independent Hospitals
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 25, 2023
The abstract is below: Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US hospital bed capacity under multi-unit firms (systems) increased from 58% to 81% – a rapid corporatization of a sector with $1.3 However, little is known about how system ownership affects hospital profitability and quality. trillion in annual spend.
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Western Australia pursuing healthcare generative AI and more briefs
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
"This technology involves uncertainties and risks, but also has the potential to dramatically increase efficiency, improve the quality of care, and create value for health care organisations," WA Medical Research Minister Stephen Dawson said about generative AI.
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Are hospital quality metrics causal?
Healthcare ECONOMIST
DECEMBER 19, 2023
2023 found that Johns Hopkins Hospital had to report 162 unique quality metrics, and the cost for collecting these data were over $5.6m actual quality differences are as large as quality indicators suggest) Chandra et al. 2023) aim to test whether hospital quality metrics meet these two criteria. plus $0.6m
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‘Society Will Greatly Benefit’ From The Transformative Hospital-At-Home Movement
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Hospital at Home (HaH) is a sustainable, innovative and next-generation health care model. From the physician’s perspective, it offers person-centered medical care and keeps patients out of the hospital, away from possible complications and on to better outcomes.
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MACRA MIPS – What it Means for Physicians?
p3care
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Not only that, but it determines the quality of care within hospitals, practices, and clinics should meet certain standards. The quality category replaced the PQRS (Physician Quality Reporting System) and reflects the efforts to improve the quality of care. Improvement Activities (IA).
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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%
Healthcare It News
JUNE 24, 2024
OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.
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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload
Healthcare It News
APRIL 23, 2024
Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves.
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Impact of the DRG system on hospital length of stay
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 17, 2022
In many countries including the US and England, hospitals are paid by payers (i.e., as the diagnosis-related group (DRG) system, since DRGs are used to assess admission severity and also hospital reimbursement levels. The hospital is paid a fixed, nationally set, price for each patient in each HRG.
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Why Hospitals with Nearby Home Health Agencies Have Higher Readmission Rates
Home Health Care
JULY 5, 2022
A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that hospitals with a greater local supply of home health agencies were associated with increased readmissions. Hospital readmissions are regularly viewed as an indicator of the quality of care patients receive.
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Credentialing Services Is More than Just Data Verification
p3care
MARCH 23, 2021
Unfortunately, hospitals overlook the need for credentialing, which can cost a streamlined quality healthcare approach. The good news is hospitals can outsource professional credentialing services as per the cost estimation. We can also observe reduced care expenses, which is great for QPP MIPS reporting.
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Quality Measurement of German Hospitals
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 11, 2023
Public reporting of hospital quality of care could improve the care patients receive through at least two pathways. First, patients (or their physicians) could send patients to higher quality hospitals (i.e., A key question is, how well does public reporting of quality of care actually improve outcomes.
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Israel’s Largest Acute Hospital Deploys AI-Based Triage in ED
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 7, 2023
What You Should Know: Ichilov Hospital, Israel’s largest acute-care facility Tel Aviv launches an AI-based triage pilot integration in its Sourasky Medical Center Emergency Department with Kahun , an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians. David Seltzer, VP of Emergency Medicine at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
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How AI is Transforming Hospitals: From Administration to Patient Access
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Bishan Nandy, Director of Hospital Administration at UI Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often hailed as the frontier of technological advancement, and its impact on healthcare is profound. But the true question remains: how is AI revolutionizing the way hospitals function?
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Disrupting Hospital Price Increases: Using Growth Caps in Insurance Rate Review
NASHP
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Rising prices for health care services are a major determinant of increased health care spending and health insurance premiums. Hospital prices (for inpatient and outpatient care) are the largest driver of rising health care spending in the commercial market in the U.S.
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Early Lessons Learned From CMS’ Hospital-At-Home Initiative
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 20, 2024
In response to hospital capacity challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) collaborated with external experts to create the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) initiative. Once approved, hospitals can start admitting eligible patients to receive inpatient care at home.
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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech
Healthcare It News
MARCH 18, 2022
Furthermore, in training we would move between premier research hospitals, like Stanford, to safety-net hospitals and witness the incredible inequality in resources available to both patients and providers. Hospitals are faced with impossible decisions. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.
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Hospital at Home: Aligning Provider Needs with Patient Wishes
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
2020 saw three factors combine to define the future of “Hospital at Home” care in a way that will become a new care reality over the coming years. Patients became more reluctant and concerned about going to hospital s. Increasing The Quality of Care at Home Without Adding to The Burden. Medical Economics.
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Speedoc to deliver home healthcare for Parkway Shenton
Healthcare It News
JULY 13, 2023
Based on a press release, Parkway Shenton looks to roll out 24/7 doctor and nurse house calls, remote health monitoring, as well as, medical consultations and hospital-level care at home for patients.
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Getting the basics of digitalisation down with webPAS
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The patient administration system is one of the most critical foundational digital systems for individual hospitals or broader hospital jurisdictions. With over 252 hospital implementations, Dedalus' webPAS provides absolute confidence that your PAS foundation is deep, broad, and proven.
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14 Ways to Reduce Long Patient Wait Times
Healthcare Success
MAY 31, 2022
It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.
Vendor notebook: New AI tools to cut billing burdens, improve testing and more
Healthcare It News
MAY 12, 2023
"Dave provides smart, personalized and accessible information instantaneously, which can greatly improve the quality of care and life for millions of patients worldwide." Dave also retains a long-term memory of previous correspondence, allowing continuous communication across multiple chat sessions, according to the company.
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