The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has issued a final rule requiring nursing home staffing standards.
Dr. Monika Sonu, Healthinnovation Toolbox cofounder and HIMSS24 Changemaker, discusses how her medical practice helps inform the development of digital health tools that aim to help address issues that include health equity and interoperability.
Novant Health and Community Health Systems have filed their opposition to the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to block a $320 million deal to buy two North Carolina hospitals owned by CHS.
Accountable Care Organizations are struggling to find specialists to improve value-based care, although it is a top priority Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
As care has moved into the outpatient and home setting, nurses are looking at more technologies that support care delivery, says MaryAnn Connor, senior director of nursing informatics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow Wendell Primus spent 18 years working on Capitol Hill as a senior policy advisor on health and budget issues for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Now with Brookings Institution Research Assistant Parish Rich Bingham, Primus has published a white paper, “Reducing premiums for low-income Medicare beneficiaries.”
The Center for Indigenous Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has a global focus, explains codirector Dr. Donald Warne.
Elevance Health on Thursday reported net income of $2.25 billion in the first quarter of 2024, a 12.2% from the $2 billion reported in the same quarter for 2023. The insurance giant formerly known as Anthem reported no significant impacts to operations and cash flow from the February 21 Change Healthcare cyberattack that continues to […]
The military is working on removing barriers, through technology, for a better quality of life and access to care, says Naomi Escoffery, Chief Accelerator Officer at the Defense Health Agency.
The biggest barrier is having the curiosity and confidence in each other to try things that might not work, says Dr. Emily C. Webber, CMIO at Indiana University Health and 2024 Changemaker Award winner.