Reimbursements across all payers have fallen for five services, with an operating gap between -12.1% and -42.9%, an American Hospital Association report found.
After being hospitalized for heart failure, 63% of adults over 65 had reduced kidney function after being discharged, according to a new study from Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Peggy Duggan, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer of Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital, discourages employees from asking “How can I get patients out of the hospital sooner?”
Oracle Health, the EHR vendor formerly known as Cerner, had a busy May, with new contracts and technology rollouts. Here are seven headlines from the past month.
UPMC’s division in Central Pennsylvania is actively working to transfer patients to its kidney and liver transplant programs after Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center announced it is ending those transplant services.