A federal jury has convicted three former executives of Outcome Health, a Chicago-based health technology start-up company, for their roles in an alleged fraud scheme that targeted the company’s clients, lenders and investors and involved roughly $1 billion in fraudulent financial gain, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
From the COVID-19 pandemic, health equity has emerged as an issue that needs to be addressed alongside clinical care. Accelerating health equity is the Data Humanity Lab, a research project that has mapped socio-economic data down to zip codes and individual streets for all of New York State – and in Manhattan, to the floor-by-floor level […]
HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf shares his views on the greater themes in this increasingly global conference and exhibition. He reviews some innovations in healthcare information and technology he’s eager to see in Chicago next week.
More rays of light are emerging for U.S. nonprofit hospitals on the labor front, according to the latest from Fitch Ratings, with hospital and ambulatory healthcare services payrolls having risen for 14 and 26 consecutive months, respectively, as of March. Monthly job additions are also up 15,150 and 24,300 per month, respectively, between March 2022 […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to healthcare organizations, saying a flood of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks could shut down their websites.
EMI Advisors CEO and founder Evelyn Gallego will discuss developing a standardized data exchange to better plan and coordinate maternal care, at her HIMSS23 panel.
MGMA, the Medical Group Management Association, held a meeting Monday to explain to physicians and others what public health emergency waivers stay and which ones go at the end of the PHE. Both the public health emergency and the national emergency, which were declared at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, end […]
Acute care hospitals that successfully participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program and are meaningful electronic health record users will get a proposed payment rate increase of 2.8% in 2024, under a proposed rule released Monday. This reflects a projected hospital market basket update of 3%, reduced by a projected 0.2 percentage point productivity […]
A new report examining the finances of 1,773 nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. finds that more than three quarters fall short on expected investments in their communities.