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Influx of wearables data means clinicians should be ready
LAS VEGAS – Smartwatches and other wearable devices can capture more information than is displayed on an ICU monitor, and while data from ICU monitors is still essential in patient care, wearable data is often ignored as a part of outpatient care. But …
Colorado recognizes data sovereignty for tribes
LAS VEGAS – When promoting health in tribal communities, it’s important for public health departments to respect and understand tribal sovereignty – including when it comes to healthcare data.
Fairfax County modernized data with a focus on people
LAS VEGAS – Fairfax County Health Department in Northern Virginia was in a unique position: It’s the largest county and health district in the state, and only one of three that’s locally administered. It also experienced a wake-up call during the COVID…
Healthcare data modernization requires advocacy, funding
LAS VEGAS – Healthcare data needs to be modernized, and any modernization effort needs funding to be viable. Advocacy is critical in this regard, and one advocacy campaign, centering on public health surveillance, has seen success in recent years.
Efforts to modernize healthcare data advancing
LAS VEGAS – Healthcare, as a business, lives and dies on the data. The goal of public health data modernization is to move from silos, brittle public health data systems to connected, resilient and sustainable “response-ready” systems that can help to …
Yale New Haven calls Prospect deal ‘impossible’
Yale New Haven Health appears close to calling off a proposed acquisition of three Connecticut hospitals owned by Prospect Medical Holdings, saying the deal appears “impossible.”
The health system based its decision on what it called “mismanagement” at…
Revenue cycle challenged by low collection rates, high denials
Hospitals and health systems have been challenged by lower collection rates from insured patients and higher initial denial rates, which created financial headwinds in 2024, according to data from Kodiak Solutions.
Trump issues executive order on healthcare price transparency
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order stipulating that federal agencies should reinforce rules, set forth in a previous order, requiring health insurers and providers to disclose healthcare prices more transparently.
Judge blocks Trump orders on halting grants over DEI
Last week a federal judge in Maryland temporarily barred the Trump Administration from halting federal support for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, saying Trump’s executive orders likely violate the First Amendment.
Cedars-Sinai cancer director stepping down
Dr. Dan Theodorescu, director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, is stepping down after six years to pursue new professional opportunities, Cedars-Sinai said this week.
During Theodorescu’s tenure, Cedars-Sinai Cancer doubled its National Institutes of Health fun…
