Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Tenet Healthcare has cut a deal with Novant Health to sell off three South Carolina hospitals and their related operations for roughly $2.4 billion, the systems announced Friday morning. | The deal leaves Tenet with after-tax proceeds of $1.75 billion, which it said it will primarily use for debt retirement.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Tenet Healthcare has cut a deal to sell two California hospitals and their related operations to Adventist Health for about $550 million, the for-profit announced Thursday morning. | The deal is expected to close this spring and comes alongside a revenue cycle services agreement between the two systems.

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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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Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

As healthcare providers worldwide grapple with worsening healthcare staff shortages and rising service demand, low-code technologies have proven indispensable in bridging these twin challenges while promoting positive outcomes for both patients and clinicians.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 7, 2024

Four Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) hospitals are the first in the country to achieve the Joint Commission’s sustainable healthcare certification. | Four Hackensack Meridian Health hospitals are the first in the country to achieve the Joint Commission’s sustainable healthcare certification.

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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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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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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 6, 2024

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be fully solvent for longer than previously projected, according to an annual Medicare Trustee report. | The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money as quickly as expected. Here's how federal officials are reacting.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2024

Both painted an unflattering picture of post-merger prices and were refuted by the hospital lobby.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 28, 2024

Hospital operations broadly maintained their strong momentum through February thanks to high revenues and quicker discharges, though the month’s metrics aren’t yet showing the full impact of Change | Monthly hospital sector data show higher revenues, shorter length of stay and lower per-discharge expenses in February.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 13, 2023

Large healthcare bankruptcies rose 84% in 2022, though hospitals mostly dodged the bullet. Fri, 01/13/2023 - 14:00.

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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

APRIL 21, 2024

Private healthcare group IHH Healthcare has moved several on-premise database systems of its hospitals across Malaysia and Singapore to the cloud. Consolidating its disparate on-premise systems in the cloud is part of IHH's efforts to modernise hospital operations in its home markets. Consulting survey report noted.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2024

A new statistical analysis of 90 distinct hospital websites, drawn from a nationally representative sample of 100 community hospitals, finds that those providers – when they had privacy policies available for consumption – were inadequate in how they accurately disclosed the use of third-party tracking technologies to consumers.

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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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Health Care Dive

APRIL 11, 2024

One of the nation’s largest hospital landlords will pay down its debt load with the proceeds, executives said.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 6, 2024

The deal could skyrocket Suki to the top of the healthcare AI assistant market. | and Suki AI will encourage adoption by Premier's thousands of hospital and health system members. Suki, a voice-assistive AI and scribe tool, inked a national group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Hospital lobby urges FTC to withdraw or add healthcare exceptions to sweeping noncompete ban dmuoio Wed, 02/22/2023 - 15:55

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 23, 2024

Over half of the country’s rural hospitals aren’t offering labor and delivery services, and many of those that are could soon be forced to end maternity care due to financial losses, according to t | Many rural facilities that do still deliver are facing financial struggles that could force a shutdown, the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 11, 2024

Hospitals and health systems have kicked off the calendar year with a flurry of merger and acquisition deals reflecting several different strategic trends driving providers in 2024. |

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 2, 2024

Hospitals’ margins and revenues took a slight dip in March, though it wasn’t enough to sour what has been a strong quarter for the sector. Revenues, volumes and margins pulled back from February to March, with the strongest decline seen among outpatient settings.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Building on its expertise in building artificial intelligence solutions for hospitals, Iodine Software rolled out new AI-based software to tackle the complex healthcare challenge of utilization man | Building on its expertise in building artificial intelligence solutions for hospitals, Iodine Software rolled out new AI-based software to tackle the (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2023

UnityPoint Health, Presbyterian Healthcare set sights on 40-plus hospital merger dmuoio Thu, 03/02/2023 - 15:31

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hospitals’ financials dipped in September as volumes dipped “across the board” and labor expenses inched upward, according to Kaufman Hall’s monthly sector report. Reduced month-over-month volume metrics and a bump in labor expenses chipped at the hospital sector's operating margins, according to the healthcare consulting firm.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Investing in the future of hospital labs unleashes their full potential, creating stronger revenue streams and a healthier community. Nestled at the heart of a patient's diagnostic journey, the laboratory plays a critical role across the continuum of care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. Patient Ron Slone of Farragut, Tennessee, said he was elated to be home and that his home hospital supplies were already set up before he was transported back.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

China Medical University Hospital is leveraging Google Cloud's generative AI to support its doctors in providing cancer care. A formal collaboration between CMUH and Google Cloud was signed in December last year to use MedLM , a healthcare-specific gen AI based on the large language model, Med-PaLM 2.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, health tech companies, retailers and other industry players look to expand their businesses and gain a competitive edge. hospital group, NextGen Healthcare sale rumors and more merger and acquisition news from the month of August.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 19, 2023

John Muir Health and Tenet Healthcare have chosen to call off a hospital deal that had been contested by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the State of California, eliciting a quick victory la | John Muir had planned to buy out Tenet's 51% stake in San Ramon Regional Medical Center, a deal the FTC and the State of California said would give (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The past few years of ballooning healthcare wages have hit hospitals and health systems hard but appear to be leveling off, Fitch Ratings analysts wrote in a recent report.

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Hospitals Healthcare 157

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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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

As recently as 2023, between 30 and 47 percent of hospitals across all sizes reported still using fax or mail to send and receive patient records, according to the Government Accountability Office. Hospitals and healthcare systems can do better. Healthcare interoperability – it’s so promising, but confusing at the same time.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tenet Healthcare has disclosed a pair of new and completed hospital transactions alongside projections that next week’s 2023 financial report “will be above the high end” of its guidance. | The for-profit disclosed a new $1 billion deal to sell four California hospitals to UCI Health and said it has wrapped a previously announced $2.4

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 9, 2024

A slew of bills targeting enhanced access to care within rural communities have, to the applause of the hospital industry, passed through committee to the full House of Representatives. | A handful of bills sent to the full House Wednesday would extend or expand greater funding for various types of rural hospitals.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 25, 2024

Regulators are pumping the brakes on Novant Health’s deal to buy two North Carolina hospitals from Community Health Systems (CHS), citing concerns of higher healthcare costs and little incentive fo | The transaction for Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, Davis Regional Medical Center and other assets would give Novant Health 65% control of the inpatient (..)

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite widespread support from healthcare workers and hospital associations, federal regulations protecting hospital workers have previously failed to advance in Congress.

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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. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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