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

MARCH 27, 2024

Tenet Healthcare has wrapped up its deal to sell four hospitals and their related outpatient sites to UCI Health, according to a Wednesday announcement academic system. |

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Hospitals Healthcare 298

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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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 26, 2024

Ascension has a definitive agreement in place to offload three Northern Michigan hospitals and other facilities to MyMichigan Health. |

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Hospitals 246

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 3, 2024

The program, and its complementary effort targeting manufacturers, would require new authorities from Congress.

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Medicare Hospitals 297

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 25, 2024

Four in five nonprofit hospitals are spending less on community benefit areas like financial assistance than what they are estimated to receive in tax breaks, according to the latest annual report | Even after accounting for discounted care and community benefit investments, the money 2,425 nonprofit hospitals saved through tax breaks in 2021 would (..)

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 22, 2024

In a Thursday letter, the American Hospital Association urged the HHS’ Office of Civil Rights to reduce possible “duplicative” breach notifications from the Change cyberattack.

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Hospitals 297

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Broadly speaking, the hospital sector is a much stronger state financially than it was in 2022 or even early 2023 amid industry reports of higher medians and margin improvements being shared by sev | A review of hospitals' 2023 operating numbers show 40% are still losing money going into 2024 and that high-performing hospitals are "effectively (..)

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Hospitals 298

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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Hospitals Medicare 321

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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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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Hospitals 317

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 12, 2024

Nearly all hospitals’ websites collect and transmit user information to third parties, yet most do not have privacy policies that tell the visitors who exactly will be receiving those data, accordi | A recent study warns that many hospitals' user tracking and disclosure practices could open their organizations up to lawsuits.

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Hospitals 243

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

Regulators said payments to hospitals would increase $3.2 However, the American Hospital Association called the hike “woefully inadequate.” billion in 2025 under the proposed rule.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 4, 2024

Lenient regulatory enforcement has led hospitals to disregard price transparency requirements, according to watchdog group Patient Rights Advocate.

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Hospitals 233

Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hospitals and nursing unions clash on what’s driving sluggish application rates for open registered nurse positions at hospitals — a lack of qualified candidates or a lack of interest.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

New York has proposed a slew of new cybersecurity regulations for the state’s hospitals and plans to funnel $500 million from its FY24 budget to help facilities upgrade their technology systems, Go | Should its proposal be finalized, the Empire State will give hospitals a year and access to a $500 million fund to bring their facilities into compliance. (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 19, 2024

This week on “Podnosis,” we explore the dynamics surrounding the financial distress gripping hundreds of hospitals nationwide. This week on “Podnosis,” we explore the financial distress gripping hundreds of hospitals nationwide.

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Hospitals 204

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 25, 2023

Community Health Systems (CHS) announced that it has signed a deal to sell three Florida hospitals to Tampa General Hospital for roughly $290 million. |

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Hospitals 246

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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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 9, 2024

The study could support extending acute hospital care at home, researchers said. Currently, a pandemic-era waiver for the programs is set to expire at the end of the year.

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Hospitals 304

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 25, 2024

There were 79 bankruptcy filings across healthcare-related sectors last year, 12 of which were hospitals. Those are both up from 2022's 46 total and two hospital filings, according to a new report.

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Hospitals Healthcare 290

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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Nonprofit hospitals will continue to operate under a cloud of labor supply shortages and “pressured” margins into 2024, setting the coming 12 months up as another “make or break year” for the secto | Fitch Ratings' pessimistic 2024 outlook highlighted labor shortages, an uptick in union activity and potential second year of debt service covenant (..)

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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. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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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. " WHY IT MATTERS CMUH is an early adopter of MedLM among university hospitals in Asia. Among its noteworthy applications of AI is the Intelligent Anti-Microbial System (i.A.M.S.),

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Most alarms triggered by hospital staff’s wearable safety alert systems occurred outside of the emergency department and more often during weekdays, non-holidays, surges of COVID-19 and even during | Aggregate data from 200,000 workers' wearable duress systems suggest emerging or active violent incidents occur "throughout every part of the (..)

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Hospitals 321

Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The latest divestiture comes as the Dallas-based for-profit has sold other hospitals while it reduces its debt load.

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Hospitals 301

Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Under the new definition, hospitals can only receive disproportionate share hospital Medicaid reimbursements for beneficiaries who are primarily insured by the safety-net program.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments are being cut by $8 billion annually during the current and next four federal fiscal years under a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Serv | Published Tuesday and set to go into effect in two months, the final rule limits the calculation of a hospitals Medicaid shortfall to beneficiaries with (..)

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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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Hospitals Healthcare 290

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hospitals across multiple states have reopened their emergency rooms but continue to face disruptions after parent company Ardent Health Services was hit by a ransomware attack a week ago.

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Hospitals 344

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 25, 2024

Four in five clinicians believe it’s important for their hospital to address climate change and that doing so is aligned with their organization’s mission, a new

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Hospitals 306

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 10, 2023

LeanTaaS, Hospital IQ join forces to address hospital operational optimization. Tue, 01/10/2023 - 15:00.

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Hospitals 321

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hospitals’ immediate financial needs drove more than a quarter of the sector’s merger and acquisition activity through 2023, which also brought a higher overall number of unveiled transactions than | The portion of hospitals and health systems whose transactions followed dire financial situations was nearly double that of 2020, 2021 and 2022, Kaufman (..)

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Hospitals 282

Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The agency’s plans include working with Congress to receive funding to support hospitals’ security infrastructures as the sector faces the growing threat of cyberattacks.

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