From the COVID-19 pandemic, health equity has emerged as an issue that needs to be addressed alongside clinical care.
Accelerating health equity is the Data Humanity Lab, a research project that has mapped socio-economic data down to zip codes and indi…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to healthcare organizations, saying a flood of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks could shut down their websites.
A new report examining the finances of 1,773 nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. finds that more than three quarters fall short on expected investments in their communities.
Acute care hospitals that successfully participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program and are meaningful electronic health record users will get a proposed payment rate increase of 2.8% in 2024, under a proposed rule released Monday.
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MGMA, the Medical Group Management Association, held a meeting Monday to explain to physicians and others what public health emergency waivers stay and which ones go at the end of the PHE.
Both the public health emergency and the national emergency, w…
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 th…
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).
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 …
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 un…
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.
