Texas sues Biden administration over hospital abortion guidance
Texas is suing the Biden administration over its recent guidance reminding hospitals and physicians that federal law requires them to provide abortions if there is […]
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VA vs. private hospitals
How do efficiently is care provided for patients at Veteran Affairs’ hospitals as compared to private hospitals? This is not an easy question to answer […]
Credit bureaus are removing medical debt, but hospitals can prevent it
Hospitals already have a tool at their disposal that addresses affordability for their patients. Financial assistance programs can prevent many patients from having accounts sent […]
Keep hospital operations moving while upgrading the building’s systems
No one said it’s easy to do construction renovation in healthcare facilities, but it is vitally important to ensure that medical facilities can deliver the […]
Communication breakdown: Healthcare delivery is still hindered by preventable mistakes
Even with EHRs, notes are still written down on paper and some critical communication never happens between clinicians. To reduce medical errors, we need to […]
Only 5% hospitals are compliant with price transparency rule. Here’s how they did it.
The hospitals that were found to be fully compliant with the federal price transparency rule had a few strategies in common, including picking the right […]
Book Review: The Hospital by Brian Alexander
I recently finished reading the book titled The Hospital: Life, Death and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander. The premise of the […]
As independent practices vanish, experts debate the pros & cons of a consolidated market
Independent physician practices are being gobbled up by hospitals, payers and private equity, and while some see it as a boon for the practices and […]
Biden’s latest executive order aims to boost healthcare competition
President Joe Biden has signed a new executive order to tackle anti-competitive behavior across American industries. With regard to healthcare, Biden is directing federal agencies […]
Measuring Hospital Quality
Quality of care is difficult to measure. Even if you had a perfect measure of quality in terms of health outcomes, risk adjustment is imperfect. […]
How can hospitals weather the financial storms of 2021?
Patient volumes were uneven in 2020, and a new report shows volumes will likely remain below pre-pandemic levels in 2021. This indicates challenges for hospitals […]
MultiCare physician exec: The good news is we have tech on our side to manage hospital capacity
Amid unrelenting surges of Covid-19 cases, healthcare organizations like MultiCare Health System had to reconfigure their operations to manage capacity. In an interview, Dr. Michael […]
Humana partners with DispatchHealth for hospital-at-home services
Interest in home-based care is rising amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In line with this trend, Humana is joining forces with an in-home care provider to […]
Hospital CEO pay
How much are hospital CEOs getting paid? A paper by Mulligan et al. (2020) provides the answer: Between 2010 and 2015, mean hospital CEO compensation […]
Brigham and Women’s, Biofourmis launch hospital-at-home solution nationwide
The Boston-based hospital and digital therapeutics company are rolling out their co-developed remote monitoring solution across the country, which can help hospitals rapidly implement hospital-at-home […]
DispatchHealth adds to evidence backing safety, efficacy of hospital-at-home programs
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and a growing interest in at-home care, DispatchHealth has published new data showing that its hospital-at-home program did not result in […]
Healthcare execs going all-in on AI, survey shows
The survey, conducted by Optum, shows that healthcare executives’ confidence in AI is high, and most expect to soon see cost savings from implementing the […]
How Hospital Emergency Rooms are Improving Care
Accidents happen, people get sick, unexpected health issues pop up, problems occur when you least expect it – this is why there are emergency rooms […]
VA’s $16B EHR upgrade project finally goes live
The VA deployed its new Cerner EHR at a Spokane, Washington-based hospital, marking the first implementation of the system after delays earlier this year.
Pandemic drives $221M operating loss for Providence
Providence posted a $221 million operating loss in the first half of 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Washington-based health system saw patient volumes […]
