School nurses topped this year’s list of the unhappiest nursing jobs in the U.S. as tracked by Nursing Process, followed closely by hospital staff nurses, emergency room nurses and substance abuse nurses.
Moving on from the pandemic, attendees are ready to dive into automation, digital health and networking.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued final rules updating inpatient rehabilitation and psychiatric facility payments that are higher than what was proposed in April.
Less than a week after Colorado decided to move Friday Health Plans into liquidation, the state of Nevada is following suit, announcing that it would liquidate the insurtech’s health plans in the state and p
In the latest Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hospital star rating system, 483 received the highest ranking of 5 stars. This compares to 429 hospitals that received 5 stars in 2022. More than 75% of the 4,654 hospitals in the Care Compare Dataset for 2023 received 2, 3 or 4 stars.
The nonprofit organization is digitizing standards for quality care called HEDIS measures using CQL language, says Edward Yurcisin, NCQA’s chief technology officer.
While data breaches affect all industries, healthcare suffers the largest financial hit, according to data compiled by the Ponemon Institute. This year, the average cost of a data breach reached an all time high of $4.4 million. That’s a 2.3% increase from 2022, and taking the long-term view, the average cost has increased 15.3% from […]
Subsidiaries of Franklin, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems have agreed to sell three Florida hospitals to Tampa General Hospital in a deal estimated to be worth $290 million, with the transaction expected to close later this year. The hospitals are 120-bed Bravera Health Brooksville in Brooksville, 128-bed Bravera Health Seven Rivers in Crystal River and 124-bed […]
The departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury have proposed new rules meant to better ensure that those seeking coverage for mental health and substance use disorder can access treatment more easily – as easily as, say seeking coverage for medical treatments.
While AI can generate content there’s no good way yet to vet it, says Freddie Feldman, director of voice and conversational interfaces at Wolters Kluwer.