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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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Monash to tap Apollo Hospitals DB for clinical AI projects Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology has tied up with one of India's biggest hospital groups, Apollo Hospitals, to test and validate clinical AI. An initial $34 million ($22 million) was invested in ARIIA during its founding in 2021.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

BNH Hospital, the first international private hospital in Thailand, has fully gone paperless following its implementation of an integrated HIS and EMR system. Founded by King Rama V 127 years ago as a modern hospital for foreign expatriates, BNH now provides tertiary-level care known for its Spine Center and Mother and Child care.

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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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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Research has indicated that patients needing care prefer to receive it in their homes rather than in a hospital setting. Health care models like Hospital at Home (HaH) facilitate this preference, but how do providers ensure that patients’ homes are safe for delivering these services? Do you have running water and electricity?

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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

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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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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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Mass General Brigham’s Home Hospital, in collaboration with the New England Center and Home for Veterans (NECHV), has launched a groundbreaking home hospital program for veterans experiencing homelessness. Their clinical outcomes end up being worse because they go back into the hospital and back and forth.

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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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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 21, 2025

Department of Homeland Security lifted the practice of avoiding immigration enforcement at hospitals. Some advocates say the new policy could deter immigrants from seeking medical care.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 4, 2025

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership DispatchHealth and Medically Home two of the most prominent companies in the hospital-at-home space recently announced plans to become one organization. Over the years, the company has expanded to offer a range of health care services to patients in their homes, including hospital-at-home.

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Hospital occupancy rates were higher in 2024 than 2019. If occupancy rates trend up, the nation could face a bed shortage by 2032, according to researchers.

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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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Health Care Dive

JUNE 26, 2024

A National Bureau of Economic Research report found layoffs followed hospital mergers, as employers struggled to absorb the costs of rising healthcare premiums.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 9, 2025

The year-long inquiry into hospitals managed by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners comes amid growing calls for increased oversight of private equity in healthcare.

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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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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver in the March government funding package. In 2020, CMS introduced the Acute Hospital Care At Home waiver program as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It deploys innovative technology and a workforce eager to treat patients where they live.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 20, 2024

The upward trajectory of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment is likely to become an issue for hospitals and other healthcare providers forced to contend with plans’ prior authorization requirements | Prior authorization burdens and "a challenging contract negotiation season" on the horizon are likely headwinds for providers, and hospitals (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Nearly half of rural hospitals moved out of the high-risk category after a merger, acquisition or affiliation with a larger system, a new analysis has found. |

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

Since then, the model has adapted to offer hospitalized patients an alternative to skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities following their discharge. Contessas proprietary technology, designed to coordinate home-based hospital care, made this system possible. This alternative is rehabilitation conducted at home.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

At a time when more health care organizations are launching hospital-at-home programs, operators in this space need to educate their clinicians to expect data variations. The whitepaper distills Best Buy Healths years of experience implementing remote patient monitoring (RPM) through hospital-at-home into several key lessons.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 6, 2024

hospitals are taking steps to conserve their supplies of intravenous (IV) fluids as one of the country's biggest manufacturers reduces shipments after Hurricane Helene flooded a major facility in North Carolina.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The program focuses on improving patient outcomes, streamlining the operational flow of emergency departments, enhancing observation unit throughput, shortening hospital stays, reducing unnecessary hospital use and decreasing readmission rates. The pilot took place for six months, March through August,” Davies said.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 30, 2024

As artificial intelligence rapidly makes inroads in healthcare, federal agencies already have the authority to regulator AI at the hospital bedside, according to some healthcare researche | An article published in JAMA Health Forum argues that through the conditions of participation in Medicare and Medicaid, CMS has the authority to oversee how hospitals (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

R-Louisiana, and Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, published a policy paper advocating to impose site-neutral Medicare payments on hospitals. | However, hospital groups were quick to slam the proposal. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D.,

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Johnson & Johnson is escalating its fight with the federal government over its controversial plan to change how it doles out drug discounts to hospitals. Johnson & Johnson is escalating its fight with the federal government over its controversial plan to change how it doles out drug discounts to hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

According to a social media announcement, they signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to improve the centres of excellence at its flagship hospital, Sunway Medical Centre, which specialises in spine, neuroscience, and cardiovascular medicine. Over 850 surgeons have been trained in using da Vinci RAS system to date.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Founded in 1989, the 2,765-bed hospital is the largest in South Korea, serving around 13,000 patients daily. It is also the teaching hospital of the University of Ulsan College of Medicine. The previous framework evaluated healthcare organisations in the areas of mobility, security, collaboration, transport and data centres.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 18, 2024

Limited resources in a highly connected ecosystem can make hospitals vulnerable, but planning ahead and implementing key protections could help thwart attack.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In a sample of 100 hospitals, 34 didn’t meet requirements for publishing machine-readable files of their charges while 14 didn’t follow rules to post shoppable services.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Hospitals are primed for natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes, but many haven’t thought about the domino effect cyberattacks can have locally, said Scott Gee, who joined AHA last month.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Its authors suggest that any attempts to reconfigure nonprofit hospitals' exemptions and corresponding community benefit spending would be best employed at the state or local level.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 26, 2024

A major drugmaker’s plan to trade out upfront 340B discounts for rebates has found swift pushback from both hospitals participating in the drug subsidy program and the government administration tha | The drugmaker said it plans to require DSH covered entities obtain their drug discounts by submitting for a rebate after dispensing.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The chair of the Senate Finance Committee and several of his Democratic colleagues have introduced a bill that would increase Medicaid payments to rural and safety net hospitals for maternity care. |

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