Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 29, 2024

Increased demand for services helped offset high expenses for hospitals during July, according to analytic solutions firm Strata.

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Hospitals 287

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Ending routine masking in hospital settings is a dangerous move. It also exposes hospitals to the risk of liability.

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Healthcare 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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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 13, 2024

The complaints to the HHS allege two Texas hospitals denied them emergency abortion care for ectopic pregnancies, risking their lives and damaging their future fertility.

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Hospitals 293

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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Healthcare 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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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 23, 2024

The closures are a “tragic result of greed-driven hospital executives, backed by private equity, who prioritize their yachts and private jets over patient care,” said an Ohio nurse union leader.

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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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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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Healthcare Dive

MAY 7, 2024

Since filing for bankruptcy Monday, Steward Health Care revealed it's carrying more than $1 billion in debt and said its entire hospital portfolio is for sale.

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Hospitals 339

Healthcare Dive

JULY 15, 2024

Multiple lawsuits were filed last week after Lurie Children’s Hospital reported a cyberattack earlier this year may have exposed data of more than 775,000 people.

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Hospitals 264

Healthcare Dive

JULY 10, 2024

The sweeping payment rule also solidifies continuous eligibility requirements for children in Medicaid and CHIP, and holds hospitals to higher obstetric care delivery standards in a bid to improve maternal mortality.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Mission Hospital’s emergency department is at double capacity as supply shortages create processing delays, nurses told Healthcare Dive.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

Take the case of Mount Alvernia Hospital, a 300-bed private not-for-profit medical institution in Singapore. " Bruce Leong, Director of Technology and Strategy, Mount Alvernia Hospital As part of their DNA, innovation also aligns with the hospital's digital transformation strategy to stay agile.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 12, 2024

The technology giants will offer free or low-cost cybersecurity tools to rural hospitals, which often have limited resources to combat the rising number of cyberattacks.

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Hospitals 298

Healthcare Dive

JULY 31, 2024

The incentive program offers hospitals a carrot for relieving debt that health systems were unlikely to recover anyway, with experts labeling the program a “win-win” for patients and providers.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The CMS fails to check hospitals’ pricing data for accuracy and completeness, raising questions about whether the data can be used as intended to help payers and patients shop for services, according to the government agency.

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Healthcare 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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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 Dive

MAY 9, 2024

The model, if finalized, will test whether putting hospitals on the hook for kidney transplant access and quality might improve the nation’s shoddy system of organ procurement and transplantation.

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Hospitals 307

Healthcare 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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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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Hospitals Telemedicine 294

Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

One clinical affairs expert argues that it’s time to reexamine the federal Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program.

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Hospitals 157

Healthcare It News

MAY 21, 2024

National University Hospital testing Alzheimer's predictive AI from Korea Singapore's National University Hospital is collaborating with medical AI company Heuron from South Korea to test the latter's AI solutions for screening and predicting Alzheimer's disease.

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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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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 19, 2024

The case centered on whether patients who receive funds from a pool of state funding for uncompensated care could be included in calculating hospitals’ disproportionate share funding.

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Hospitals 284

Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The sale offers a lifeline for struggling Davis Regional Psychiatric Hospital, which stakeholders worried could close after CHS’ deal to sell the facility to Novant Health fell through in June.

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Hospitals 144

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Collaboration and a shared vision in improving patient care are key factors for success, shares Bumrungrad International Hospital Chief Administrative Officer Dr Korpong Rookkapan.

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Hospitals 85

Healthcare 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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Healthcare 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

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jay Mathur, MD, Regional Medical Director at Contessa Health and Inlightened Expert As a practicing hospitalist designing and delivering hospital-at-home programs across the country, I’m excited about a future where we can expand this kind of care to more Americans. should become your North Star.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2024

Queensland Virtual Hospital extends to emergency care The Queensland state government has set aside A$27 million ($18 million) to expand the Queensland Virtual Hospital's services to cover emergency care. It noted that cases of aggressive assaults on public hospital staff have increased in recent years.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 16, 2024

The deal would create a four-hospital system in New Jersey.

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Hospitals 321

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What You Should Know: – Vivalink , a provider of digital healthcare solutions, is making it easier for nonprofit hospitals to adopt Hospital-at-Home (HaH) programs with the launch of its new HaH Starter Program. – Vivalink is offering this program at no cost to eligible hospitals in the U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Hospital patients’ risk of death has fallen substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic and the months preceding it, even as hospitals are treating more and sicker patients, according to a new report | An analysis of 715 hospitals' patient safety metrics showed that patients hospitalized in Q1 2024 were about 22% more likely to survive as compared (..)

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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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