Emergency room physicians are familiar with patients who frequently return to their hospitals for care. But ER physicians have little time to assess how many times that person has visited other ERs within the health system and no way to know if the patient has visited other hospitals in the region that aren’t connected. Patients may […]

The American Hospital Association has released a report finding that hospital and health system performance on key patient sa

The U.S. healthcare system may not be fully meeting the needs of women, if a new report is any indication. In a survey of consumers conducted by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, women are 35% more likely than men to say they’ve skipped or delayed medical care over a 12-month period. The reasons for […]

Considerations include what stage of adoption hospitals are in, the challenges and benefits of the technology and the protection of patient data, says HIMSS senior market insights manager Nicole Ramage.

Highmark, a commercial health insurance plan based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will now cover RelieVRx, an FDA-authorized device for chronic low back pain (CLBP) created by AppliedVR, a virtual reality-based therapeutics company. This makes RelieVRx accessible as a covered therapeutic to more than 4 million of Highmark’s commercial members.

Generative AI is working, and the hallucination problems are easing, says Rob Havasy, senior director of informatics strategy at HIMSS.

In AMGA’s newly released 2024 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey, medical groups and healthcare organizations report an increase in compensation of 3.6% for primary care specialties, 5.1% for medical specialties, 5.5% for surgical specialties, and 5.8% for radiology, anesthesiology and pathology specialties in 2023.

Eight hospitals have sued the Department of Health and Human Services over disproportionate share hospital payments that include calculations for Medicare Advantage.

Health system executives plan to invest in artificial intelligence, automation and managed services to improve revenue cycle performance over the next year, according to a new Guidehouse analysis.

The Rite Aid Corporation said it has successfully completed its financial restructuring and emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, cutting about $2 billion worth of total debt and adding $2.5 billion in exit financing. The company said it would now have a “rightsized store footprint, more efficient operating model, significantly less debt and additional financial resources.”