Healthcare IT industry insiders as well as our roving reporters deliver news and views from the show floor on Day 1 of the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.
CHICAGO – Telehealth adoption continues to increase, boosted in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, which put a spotlight on remote care technologies. But most of the focus this far has been on outpatient telehealth. As Stanford Health Care can attest, inpatient telehealth can also be a critical tool, and there’s an impetus to streamline technology […]
CHICAGO – Hospitals have taken a financial hit from continued COVID-19 headwinds, especially due to labor shortages.
At the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Chicago, our reporters deliver news and insightful interviews with healthcare IT industry leaders.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization introduced a significant amount of confusion into the healthcare industry. The decision, which effectively overturned Roe v. Wade and left it up to states to determine their reproductive health policies, left open the possibility of operational impacts to various stakeholders.
CHICAGO – About half of the population in the country live in areas that have a lack of access to behavioral healthcare, said Taft Parsons III, vice president and chief psychiatric officer, CVS Health. Dr. Zenobia Brown agreed that access for behavior and mental health services has been an issue before the pandemic.
CHICAGO – Interoperability is frequently touted as a means of ensuring the exchange of important health information between healthcare entities, but it turns out that achieving this long sought-after goal may also be a means of advancing health equity, which has been an ongoing focus of the current administration.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the 2024 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Final Rule that limits non-standardized plans in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is now live, and exchange partners are signing up. Hot on its heels come rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to prevent information blocking as required by the 21st Century Cures Act. According to a panel at the interoperability forum at the […]
CHICAGO – The Philips Future Health Index 2023 global report released here at HIMSS23 today shows healthcare leaders are focused on addressing staffing shortages and stepping up planned AI investments. The investments are to increase critical decision support and operational efficiency that will also help tackle staffing shortages.