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Shah will bring unique insights into Maven’s 24/7 model that seeks to reduce unnecessary C-sections and emergency department visits and improve clinical outcomes.

The order directs the Justice Department and the FTC to examine guidelines on hospital mergers to ensure that patients are not harmed.

Peter Urbanowicz, managing director and co-head of Alvarez and Marsal’s Healthcare Industry Group, discusses the FDA’s new focus in addressing supply chain and device shortages posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and what hospitals should be doing in the meantime to adjust.

Consumer sentiments show the demand for contactless experiences that are also digital and convenient has been on the rise for years, and 2020 might be the year where the importance of this rising demand was fully realized.

Sundar Kamak, global head of manufacturing at Ivalua, discusses the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on healthcare supply chains and how technology can help alleviate those issues.

The lack of federal legalization of marijuana leads to unequal—and unlawful—treatment of job candidates, even those who are using cannabis legally for medical purposes.

FCC issues recommendations for stakeholders to combat issue of unlawful robocalls to hospitals, which threaten public health and safety.

Kaveh Safavi, MD, JD, global health lead of Accenture Health, discusses how the pandemic influenced the speed at which healthcare organizations adopted new technologies and how this adoption is impacting patient care.

From planned to unplanned healthcare costs, the uncertainty around paying for care has become a significant factor delaying many from getting the treatment they need when they need it.

A study in JAMA Network Open shows that differences in hospital admission and racial residential segregation could account for increased risks of inpatient mortality and hospice discharge seen among Black patients with COVID-19.

Unless health IT teams become more proactive, a wide range of legal, clinical and financial consequences resulting from poor legacy data management will escalate.

After months of tribulation, Methodist Health System found a solution to our COVID-19 testing challenge in high-throughput (HTP) antigen tests, which could be run on analyzers already installed in our hospital labs.

Following an announcement from the CDC that fully vaccinated individuals no longer need to wear masks in all outdoor and most indoor spaces, health systems and hospitals responded by continuing to encourage caution.

COVID-19 has shifted the bargaining power for healthcare providers in the real estate market.

A study identifies factors that put patients with COVID-19 receiving home-based care at risk for care escalation.

Sentara Healthcare announces the formation of its Supplier Diversity Executive Council.

Ogi Kwon, of R1 Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) offers insights on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of price transparency.

Americans want their providers to use electronic methods to prescribe medications, according to new survey findings.

Risk-based thinking should not be confined to just patient care; it must be implemented among all aspects of hospital operations in order to be successful.

News in orthopedics, technology, and neurodiagnostics.

Survey responses from health care facilities across the country outline current nurse shortages and foretell of future vacancies.

Ogi Kwon, of R1 Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) speaks on the effectiveness of CMS' price transparency requirements and offers insights into the future of consumerization of health care.

Besides the ability to ramp up quicky, healthcare leaders are looking for systems that can accommodate remote work—and some predict that certain workers who fled offices due to COVID-19 will never return to traditional settings.

Dr. Peter Slavin is the latest high-level departure at Mass General Bingham.

Survey responses illustrate the impact COVID-19 has had on health system employees, including considerations of leaving the workforce and concerns about childcare.

With less than half of the workers having been vaccinated and some suffering long-term effects from the stress of the past year, it’s clear from the survey results that the effects of the pandemic will be with health workers for months or years to come.

HHS' formula for the Provider Relief Fund based payouts on 2019 revenues, but did not require refunds if losses failed to materialize.

Before the CDC guidelines, 45% of the patients were prescribed opioids, but that fell to 34% after the guidelines.

The calculation method used in the study accounted for heart failure and a patient’s history of opioid use, and found that that both respiratory depression and length of stay continued to cost.