In the wake of a “severe illness season,” Highmark Health is teaming with Kinsa to deploy its real-time illness insights and season forecast to predict healthcare utilization, recognize staffing needs and plan emergency department and ICU bed capacity when infectious diseases like COVID-19 and infl
Health systems are required to retain clinical, HR and financial data, which all have differing retention lengths, says Tower Health VP and Chief Applications Officer Sidney Dixon during a preview of his HIMSS23 session.
Tom O’Neil, managing director of Berkeley Research Group, says boards need to ask the right questions to get AI right and consider factors like efficacy and transparency.
Thirty-nine healthcare executives, public health and policy leaders, some with former ties to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the CMS Innovation Center and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, have submitted a joint letter to the Department of Health and Human Services strongly supporting proposed changes to Medicare Advantage payments.
Nine hospital groups have written to Congressional leadership urging lawmakers to avoid the roughly $8 billion in cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments, which could start as soon as October 1.
What are the proportionate places for people, processes and technology in defense strategy in the threat landscape? Anurag Lal, NetSfere CEO and past director of the FCC’s National Broadband Task Force, explains.
Lakeland Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Lakeland, Florida, has agreed to pay the United States $4 million to resolve allegations that it made donations to a local unit of government to improperly fund the state’s share of Medicaid payments to LRMC.
Health insurers ended 2022 with earnings up from the year prior, with EBITDA growing 12% in the fourth quarter, though a new report from Moody’s Investors Service predicts that this growth will slow in 2023.
NextGen Healthcare Chief Medical Officer Dr. Robert Murry will lead a panel at HIMSS23 with a focus on delivering coordinated care to people experiencing homelessness through street medicine.