By: Hayley Smith Source: Los Angeles Times The announcement of Olympia Medical Center’s sale and closure came on New Year’s Eve. Before the clock struck midnight, the community began mobilizing against it. City Council members wrote letters, healthcare workers signed petitions, and union groups staged protests in the days and weeks that followed. By the end of […]
Source: ModernHealthcare.com Apps will catch on as a dominant way patients seek access to their medical data, since—unlike existing technology—they’re designed with patients in mind, the Trump administration’s top health IT official said Tuesday, reaffirming a vision behind recent interoperability and information-blocking regulations. The rules from CMS and HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for […]
Source: HealthcareDive.com Date: 3/15/19 By: Les Masterson Medicaid work requirements could hurt hospital finances, though how a state’s payer mix and how it designs the regulation will influence the subsequent financial impact for providers, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. Work requirements lead to fewer covered Medicaid beneficiaries. That results in hospitals […]
Source: Becker’s Hospital Review By: Ayla Ellison More than 15 percent of U.S. hospitals have weak financial metrics or are at risk of potential closure, according to Business Insider, which cited a recent report from Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley analyzed data from roughly 6,000 hospitals and found 600 of the hospitals were “weak” based on criteria for […]
By: Meg Bryant Source: HealthcareDive.com Hospitals across the U.S. are being battered by financial headwinds, and rural hospitals are vulnerable because they don’t have capital or diversified services to fall back on when the going gets rough. Between 2013 and 2017, 64 rural hospitals closed due to financial distress and changing healthcare dynamics, more than […]
By: Venky Ananth Source: LiveMint.com One of the tools that can leverage AI to free up more of healthcare providers’ time to offer care to more patients, is the electronic healthcare record (EMR). Stacy, who has been struggling with chronic arm pain, is reluctant to meet her physician as she doesn’t have the time to […]
By: Tony Hagen @oncobiz Source: ONCLive.com The dramatic surge in hospital merger and acquisition activity that gobbled up oncology practices by the score is losing steam as a result of numerous policy and legislative acts, and this is creating a climate of uncertainty in terms of revenue generation, according to Michael L. Blau, JD, of […]
Charity Care at Highest Level Since Early 2014 By: KTVZ.COM news sources PORTLAND, Ore. – As Oregon community hospitals’ costs continued to increase, relative to revenues, operating margins continued their downward trend at the close of 2017, landing at a median of -0.8 percent, which was among the lowest tallied in dozens of years, the […]
By: ESO Solutions Key Hospital Predictions for 2018: Evidence-based care for acute events will continue to be emphasized: From first medical contact to hospital admission through rehab, new evidence-based research will play a key role in the treatment and destination decisions for patients experiencing acute events (e.g., the DAWN study showing benefit of endovascular clot […]
By: Isaac Kaplan Source: Artsy.net Hospital patients expect that the medicine doctors give them will improve their health. But it’s possible that the nondescript painting of a country house, or an idyllic landscape hanging on a nearby wall, may also be part of the prescription. When it comes to what style of art should be […]