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.
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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 …
Large language models can flag missed diagnoses in radiologist notes
A HIMSS25 session will show how a large language model (LLM) can monitor radiologist notes to help ensure patients are protected from medical errors and also get their recommended follow-up appointments.
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…
HIMSS25: Know Thy Patient goes beyond disease category and the social determinants
At HIMSS25, experts will share the details of PCCI’s Know Thy Patient (KTP) algorithm, which leverages an unsupervised machine learning method called clustering to identify groups of individuals based on similar patterns of healthcare utilization and a…
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.
Philips partners for maternal remote patient monitoring in Georgia
Philips this week announced a new program to provide access to remote patient monitoring and personalized health coaching for pregnant and postpartum people with maternal hypertension and diabetes in an initial 50 counties across Georgia.
Leverage cyber threat intelligence to stay ahead of cyberattacks
Integrating threat intelligence into a broader cybersecurity strategy is one way hospitals and other healthcare organizations can stay a step ahead of cybercriminals, according to Jon Moore, chief risk officer, SVP of Consulting Services and Client Suc…
CVS, FTC at odds over court order and timeline to produce PBM records
CVS is at odds with the Federal Trade Commission over a court order mandating that it hand over documents in the FTC’s civil investigation of its pharmacy benefits manager.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates in the District of Columbia ordere…
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.
