RevSpring and Cerner are expanding their partnership through omnichannel payment solutions to boost performance and patient engagement. More than 1,500 Cerner customers can access RevSpring’s PersonaPay, Talksoft and IVR Advantage solutions, to streamline, for example, the coordination of all payment data and communications in back-office work.

In recognition of the difficulties faced by healthcare workers, President Biden has signed into law the “Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act,” which authorizes programs to improve mental and behavioral health among healthcare providers.

Multiple gold medal winner Michael Phelps walked onto the stage at HIMSS22 to a strong round of applause from a full house in the Valencia Ballroom in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. Phelps, the closing keynote on Friday, brought a message that has been top of mind in healthcare during COVID-19: the need […]

ORLANDO – Healthcare organizations from payers to providers have been sounding a common refrain in recent years: Provide the right care at the right place at the right time. Various hospital-at-home programs have popped up in response to this ethos, and some of the most successful entail payer-provider partnerships.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Healthcare has undergone a number of policy and technology shifts in recent years, and at the intersection of these changes is Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR. It’s a standard that describes data formats and an API for exchanging electronic health records, and while many in the data business consider it the […]

To get staff on board with digital transformation, everyone who will be using the system must be included in decision-making, according to Dr. John Chessare, president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Healthcare System. How it usually works, he said during HIMSS22, is that “you get a group of people to decide something […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Even before COVID-19 made the business of healthcare a nightmare for countless physicians and clinicians, burnout was a prevalent issue. And even the slow, still-ongoing emergence into normalcy hasn’t been enough to ease this trend: Clerical burdens, including clinical documentation, are a major contributor.

ORLANDO – More than 1.5 million Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in hospice care for at least one day during 2018, a 17% jump in about four years. While hospice care is useful and compassionate, especially when focusing on quality of life for terminally ill patients, there’s a problem that looms: At least 14% of Medicare […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – A panel of provider, payer and tech experts speaking at HIMSS22 went beyond the issue of health equity to address ways their organizations are tracking and helping to solve gaps.

ORLANDO – 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley asked a panel of healthcare workforce professionals during HIMSS22 on Tuesday about what needs to be done to turn around resignations and burnout. Eight percent of healthcare jobs are vacant, Pelley said, his strong and familiar baritone instantly recognizable. Sixty-six percent of nurses have said they felt like quitting.