Even though there are still challenges facing the industry, healthcare executives are optimistic heading into 2025, with a new Deloitte survey showing 60% of C-suite leaders have a favorable view of the coming year, up from 52% a year ago.
Healthcare organizations are setting their priorities for 2025, with 52.8% of hospital and health system leaders identifying patient access, throughput and capacity as their top focus.
Artificial intelligence is poised to become a major force in healthcare. The technology is developing at breakneck speed, and both payers and providers are examining the potential use cases, with one survey from November showing 73% of organizations plan on growing their financial commitments to the technology.
Asynchronous communication helps build an open avenue of trust as the regulatory burden is getting heavier for long-term care. There’s less staff, and the funding remains the same, says Will Cantrell, director of product solutions at InteliChart.
Ascension has submitted a report to federal regulators showing that about 5.6 million people were affected by a ransomware attack on the nonprofit health system in May.
FAST is the FHIR at Scale Task Force under HL7 that is looking at implementing guides around identity, consent, security, a national directory and testing how all those things come together, says Janice Reese, program manager of FAST.
WashU Medicine in St. Louis is turning a philanthropic gift of $50 million into a vehicle for recruiting neurosurgeons and researchers, and enhancing the research capabilities of the facility’s neurosurgery department. Andrew Taylor, an emeritus trustee of Washington University in St. Louis, and his wife, Barbara, made the donation after receiving care from WashU Medicine […]
Some Medicare enrollees will pay less for 64 drugs available through Medicare Part B, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The drugs will have a lowered Part B coinsurance rate from January 1 through March 31 of next year; that’s because drug companies raised prices for each of the 64 drugs faster […]
The idea to start a company to make clinical research easier for physicians and more accessible to patients began while Alexander Saint-Amand was still in college. His mother, who was sick, hoped to get into a clinical trial, but there was limited access.
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a spending bill that averts a government shutdown, but some healthcare provisions that were in the original bill didn’t make it to final passage. Acute hospital-care-at-home and telehealth temporary waivers were continued, but were not given the long-term extensions that were included in a Dec. 18 bipartisan resolution. Both […]