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Cultivating a positive culture is a priority for hospital leaders, but many are making avoidable mistakes. Myra Gregorian, Seattle Children's chief people and transformation officer, outlined some of these common blunders — such as not involving frontline staff in decision making and assuming that simple communication methods are sufficient.
Rural health system Reid Health is using Abridge's AI-powered documentation tech to reduce burnout among nurses. It appears to be working — after-shift charting is down by up to 45 minutes, and the RN vacancy rate has been cut more than in half, said Misti Foust-Cofield, Reid’s chief nursing officer.
We have the opportunity to design systems that give people greater capacity for the work where human presence matters most: listening, understanding, reassuring, deciding, and caring.
Counting hospital closures only tells part of the story, noted Duane Fitch, partner at Plante Moran. Across the country, hundreds of hospitals remain technically open while steadily shedding services their communities depend on, such as emergency care, obstetrics and psychiatric care.
Women’s health platform Xella Health launched with a $499-per-year membership. The platform provides women the kind of connected healthcare that has typically only been available through expensive concierge medicine, said CEO Kelly Lacob.
Cadence raised $100 million in Series C funding to scale its AI-powered chronic care platform, which monitors patients at home and adjusts their medications in real time. The startup, now valued at $1.23 billion, partners with health systems to treat patients with heart failure, hypertension and diabetes.
Eli Lilly made good on its threat to withhold 340B drug discounts from hospitals that refused to submit claims data. Hospital groups are calling the policy unlawful, arguing that the company has no legal authority to create its own compliance requirements for a federal program.
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
Mayo Clinic is deploying AI across its revenue cycle operations, but revenue cycle chair Todd Manion said he's skeptical that these functions will be fully automated anytime soon.
A recent JAMA editorial from two radiologists argues that elective whole-body MRI scan companies are misleading consumers about the benefits of said scans. The radiologists argue the MRIs are more likely to trigger harmful downstream procedures than they are to save lives. Not surprisingly, the three most prominent companies offering these scans denied the charge.
AI hasn't solved all the problems plaguing healthcare's revenue cycle — but R1's Lee Kupferman says that it is getting closer, one gray area at a time.
Verily is testing wastewater across World Cup host cities for pathogens like RSV, measles and norovirus, aiming to spot outbreaks five to seven days before they show up in clinics.
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MultiCare CFO James Lee said decades of government underpayment have pushed U.S. healthcare to a breaking point. He thinks the nation is headed toward a two-tier system — one for patients with commercial coverage, and another for those covered through CMS.
The healthcare affordability crisis in the U.S. has become a trust crisis, with a growing share of Americans walking away from care altogether. Industry leaders say the fix requires something the system has never really done: starting with the patient.
The healthcare industry is spending more than ever on AI — but according to executives from Oracle Health, HCA Healthcare and BJC Health, much of that investment could be wasted. During a panel this week at HFMA’s annual conference, they argued that no amount of sophisticated tech can overcome a broken, antiquated data foundation.
Clinical AI startup Abridge held a New York City event to signal it's done being thought of as just an AI scribe. The company announced a Nvidia foundation model partnership, an Eli Lilly investment, new capabilities for its platform, and the intent to help mediate the relationship between payers and providers.
During a panel at HFMA’s annual conference, two healthcare credit analysts said the industry is already fracturing into winners and losers. And with 2030 bringing a perfect storm of demographic pressure, reimbursement cuts and AI disruption, they think window for bold action is closing fast.