Private equity in healthcare saw its second highest year on record in 2022, closing on roughly $90 billion worth of deals, according to a report from consulting from Bain and Co. Despite a slowdown caused by macro-economic and geopolitical forces in the second half of the year, 2022 was still the second-best year on record […]

Carium general counsel Matthew Fisher previews his HIMSS23 panel explaining the ways the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision affects healthcare data and access.

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said Friday that the Department of Justice would appeal the Texas court decision banning the use of mifepristone nationwide. Garland said by statement, “The Justice Department strongly disagrees with the decision of the District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA and will […]

Despite investments in analytics, key patient attributes are often buried in a facility’s electronic health record.This was the challenge facing The Villages Health (TVH).

Ophir Ronen, CEO of CalmWave is looking to solve the problem of alarm fatigue in the ICU, by building predictive models.  An estimated 771 alarms per bed, per day were measured at peak at John Hopkins and other locations, according to Ronen. This is untenable for both clinicians and to patients who are trying to […]

Oak Street Health, a network of value-based primary care centers based in Medicare, and kidney management company Interwell Health have announced the launch of OakWell, a joint venture to offer primary care to end-stage kidney disease patients directly in the dialysis center.  WHY THIS MATTERS

Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have reintroduced the Rural Hospital Support Act, which has drawn support from the American Hospital Association. The AHA applauded the bill’s efforts to modify and extend some Medicare payments to rural hospitals.

Accenture Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Cecil Lynch previews his HIMSS23 talk on genomics in healthcare, its worth in value-based care and how to make translational medicine available to clinicians.

Nurse/patient ratios in hospital maternity departments are oftentimes inconsistent with national nurse staffing standards, especially in departments that care for high-risk patients, according to a new study in Nursing Outlook.

Kathryn Kuttler, Darren Mann and Dr. Peter Haug of Intermountain Healthcare preview their HIMSS23 presentation about the ways a low-code framework built on FHIR benefits real-time decision support in the ER.