CMS plans to open applications in 2026 for a new payment model aimed at increasing access to technology-supported care for people with Original Medicare who are managing chronic conditions. Here are four things to know about the new payment model:…
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Rady Children’s Hospital Orange County has expanded its virtual nursing program to its emergency and neuroscience units. The hospital in November added virtual nurse coverage to the Julia and George Argyros Emergency Department and the neuroscience unit in the Bill…
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and K Health have formed a joint venture to expand access to primary care across New York through a new virtual platform. The service, called Northwell Primary Care Now, uses K Health’s clinical-grade AI…
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has gone live with Epic’s AI Text Assistant, a generative AI tool designed to make clinical notes easier for patients to understand, according to the health system’s associate chief health informatics officer for platform innovation. Stephon…
A patient whose $213 million lawsuit judgment against a Florida children’s hospital was reversed has asked the court to reconsider the decision. Maya Kowalski, who a jury originally awarded $261 million from St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital,…
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A majority of healthcare organizations plan to maintain or increase their spending on health IT professional services in 2025, even as policy shifts and margin pressures create widespread financial uncertainty, according to a Nov. 12 KLAS Research report. KLAS surveyed…
Mayo Clinic’s data platform is redefining how fast care can evolve — and how far high-quality care can reach. The Rochester, Minn.-based health system launched Mayo Clinic Platform in 2019 to extend its expertise far beyond the patients who visit…
New York City-based Montefiore Health System will expand its collaboration with Amazon One Medical next year, becoming the primary specialty care partner for the company’s Manhattan patients beginning Jan. 1. Here are six things to know:
Health system executives expect leaders overseeing AI projects to have increased importance in the near future. Here are the newer roles predicted to rise in prominence over the next three years, according to a Nov. 6 Healthcare Financial Management Association…
When Omar Gonzalez stepped into his role as chief technology officer for information technology and clinical engineering at Orlando Health a little more than 100 days ago, he inherited an organization that had already taken a bold step by integrating…