Insights & Analysis for Academic Medical Centers

A growing number of U.S. hospitals are staffing patient monitoring and care coordination with remote workers in the Philippines, where labor can cost up to 70% less than on-site staff, according to Rest of World. The U.S.-based news outlet, which…

The United States continues to warn of a worsening physician shortage. The American Academy of Medical Colleges projects a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036, and notes that current access gaps are already substantial, especially in primary care…

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Cancer Center’s annual Prouty fundraiser raised a record $12,010,204 for cancer research and patient support programs. More than 4,700 participants, volunteers, donors and supporters took part, marking the highest fundraising total in the event’s 45-year history, according…

Baton Rouge, La.-based Louisiana State University and FMOL Health — Our Lady of the Lake have awarded more than $1.6 million in competitive research grants to seven teams through a collaborative program that targets health challenges in Louisiana such as…

Surgeries account for a significant chunk of many hospitals’ revenue, but those hospitals cannot run surgeries safely without surgical technologists, who are in short supply.  Surgical technologists prepare operating rooms, sterilize and arrange instruments, pass supplies to the surgical team,…

Hospitals and insurers have been fighting an AI billing war for the better part of two years, with providers deploying the technology to optimize and defend their coding, and payers using it to audit and push back. “AI is placing…

David Cole, MD, president of Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina, will retire in June 2027 after 13 years in the role. Dr. Cole has led the academic health system since 2014. During his tenure, MUSC grew its statewide footprint…

A little more than a year after H.R. 1 rocked health systems’ financial projections and five-year plans, this fall will bring the trial of Luigi Mangione and midterm elections, putting healthcare dissatisfaction back into the spotlight.

Why the future of healthcare finance belongs to whoever already has the data. Healthcare’s revenue cycle was built to run late. Every denial, appeal, reconciliation and audit rests on the same quiet assumption: the right answer arrives after the fact.…

Every health system I talk to is “doing AI.” There’s a pilot in radiology. A GenAI scribe in ambulatory. A predictive model for readmissions – perhaps by someone who built two years ago, left the organization and now nobody can…