FierceHealthIT

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 Today

MAY 14, 2024

The following is a guest article by Kaeli Tully, Healthcare Systems and Solutions Engineer at Intel In the quiet hours of the night, hospital executives toss and turn, grappling with the daunting reality of staffing shortages that plague their institutions. This is an exercise DX teams should perform thoroughly.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Rural and community hospitals face the same challenges as larger health systems. Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Pratt, MD – Chief Medical Officer for Paragon at Altera Digital Health to learn more about the company’s efforts for rural and community hospitals. They are just as complex an organization.”

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 21, 2024

More than 100 provider organizations want the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take a tougher stance on Medicare Advantage (MA) plans’ practices following an industry survey es | Providers spent nearly $20 billion in 2022 pursuing delays and denials across all payer types, yet those efforts are substantially more costly on average (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2024

Connexall addresses traditional hospital concerns such as fall prevention, other patient safety, and reducing alerts. On the one hand, they connect to a wide range of medical devices through standard protocols and remain vendor-neutral, which is important for hospital systems that have to integrate many systems after a merger or acquisition.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The organization is working with law enforcement but has not described the incident as a ransomware attack.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 4, 2024

Months after furloughing hundreds of its employees, Marshfield Clinic Health System has informed many of those workers that they will be terminated “in early May,” a spokesperson of the 11-hospital | Though more than five dozen of the employees furloughed in January have found new positions in the organization, hundreds of others will be eliminated (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Hospital patients with conditions like pneumonia, dehydration and heart failure have been shown to experience shorter recovery times with fewer complications when they receive more cost-effective healthcare at home – and many health systems have been preparing for this future.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Massachusetts healthcare organizations announced this week that every hospital, health system and local health plan in the state is removing “stigmatizing or invasive” mental health questions from | In a nationwide first, every hospital, health system and local health plan in the state has signed on to removing sensitive mental health questions from (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2024

What aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient experience can telemedicine touch? By leveraging telemedicine to enhance the patient experience, healthcare organizations can create a more comprehensive and integrated approach to care delivery that extends throughout the entire patient journey.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2024

For provision, we look at for-profit companies, not-for-profit organizations, AMCs, other providers, and developers integrated into care delivery systems. The post Ethics for AI in Health – A View From The World Health Organization appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

The American Hospital Association is curating a similar page for the organization’s hospital members with updates and special reports and links. My own thought-patterns have begun to organize and assess the economic impacts of this historic adverse event on the U.S. health care system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2024

What has been another key emerging clinical technology you've seen at HIMSS24 this week, and what role can it play for provider organizations? Virtual care technologies aimed at delivering higher acuity care, such as virtual hospital or hospital at home, were also prevalent at the conference.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Instead of thinking of patients as "discharged" once they leave the hospital, which implies care is finished, many healthcare professionals believe it's time to treat home as a fundamental care setting that needs to be well integrated into the care continuum. What are the challenges for effective hospital-at-home coordination?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2024

In this video, Witt and Joshua Roth, Chief Information Security Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) , discuss how they protect against breaches through fundamental investments in tools and training. According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc. Tell us what you think.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The Hospital Impact blog, launched in March 2005, introduced itself as “the first and only healthcare blog dedicated [to] current and emerging hospital leaders, thinkers, and enablers,” and its mission was to answer the question “what will it take for hospitals to be the best-run organizations on the face of the planet?”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

Consumer demand in healthcare has shifted; led by the need to meet patient convenience inside, as well as outside, the four walls of the organization. We will also discuss how HCTec is helping hospitals, clinics, and other medical facilities improve patient outcomes and reduce costs through EHR upgrades. hospitals and almost half of U.S

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Henry Ford Health is coming together with several of Ascension Michigan’s hospitals and other facilities to form a joint venture with over $10.5 billion in annual operating revenue, the organizatio | Should the deal close, the resulting organization would span 13 acute care hospitals and over 550 sites of care.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 12, 2019

Living donor chains increase the number of quality live organs available to patients who need them. The president's latest initiative can help, too.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. You contend CMS's Acute Hospital Care at Home program needs scalability to survive. Please elaborate.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Additionally, the organization will implement Altera’s Ventus Contract Management, Ventus Compliance Advisor and Ventus Intelligent Coding solutions to optimize revenue and reduce compliance risk. Weiss Memorial Hospital, a 236-bed safety-net facility located in the North Side of Chicago, and a satellite location in River Forest.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2024

What began as several defined systems of controls by which hospitals guarded against revenue loss, revenue integrity has seemingly turned into more narrowly focused controls in many organizations, leaving critical gaps in what once was a more holistic approach to fiscal oversight.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The partnership will enable Altera to bring Affinity Decision Support (ADS), a financial and operational performance optimization platform and a recipient of HFMA’s Peer Review Certification for 2023, to its healthcare organization clients around the world. Roughly half of U.S.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 23, 2024

During a recent demonstration at Severance Hospital, YUHS showcased its commitment to prescribing DTx, highlighting cognitive therapy software aimed at improving insomnia. Developers of these devices can seamlessly connect with medical organizations on the platform.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 30, 2024

Despite his company’s recent flurry of hospital divestitures, Tenet He | A $215 million increase to FY24 guidance announced Tuesday doesn't take into account Tenet's above-expectations organic growth during the first quarter, which fueled a nearly 7% year-over-year increase in net operating revenues.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 28, 2023

The Joint Commission is kicking off a new advanced, voluntary certification for hospitals with processes in place to address healthcare disparities and promote equity among staff, the accreditation | Effective July 1, hospitals and critical access hospitals will be able to apply for an optional certification distinguishing those that make equity a (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

“This gap between demand and supply of diagnostic radiologists has been going on for a while,” said BreAnne Buehl, Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions for VMware by Broadcom, a cloud computing and virtualization technology company that helps healthcare organizations modernize their IT infrastructure. May 10, 2022.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

. | The cross-market deal has satisfied "all regulatory reviews" and will yield an integrated, academic nonprofit system comprised of 28 hospitals, according to a Wednesday announcement of the organizations' definitive agreement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. With the right tools, extending care outside the hospital is not only feasible, but in many cases preferred.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 2, 2024

More broadly, nonprofit hospitals—particularly small and rural facilities—are likely to face higher wages and potential operational disruption should the ban survive the courts, Fitch Ratings analysts warn.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 30, 2022

Ransomware is steadily increasing each and every year, with the healthcare and hospital industries suffering among the most. The article Five Security Predictions Facing Healthcare Organizations In 2022 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. In 2021, we saw […].

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hospitals and healthcare organizations have come under fire for their use of third-party web tracking technologies and analytics software like Facebook parent company Meta’s Pixel tracker.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, new enforcement in effect with the New Year could see noncompliant hospitals' warnings letters issued to the public.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

Suki announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Amwell to integrate its Suki Assistant artificial intelligence into Amwell's Converge hybrid care delivery platform used by providers at more than 2,000 hospitals and health systems, including Cleveland Clinic, Northwell Health and Intermountain Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

These cutting-edge technologies are now being harnessed to predict health issues before they escalate, revolutionizing home health care and paving the way for proactive interventions that can prevent hospitalizations. Early detection is key to preventing hospitalizations and improving patient outcomes.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 3, 2023

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are poised to launch a strike Wednesday that organizers are describing as “the largest healthcare worker strike in U.S. The large nonprofit provider and insurer, which said it hopes for final-day deal, plans to keep hospitals and EDs open should the three-day demonstration become a reality.

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