A partial government shutdown took effect Jan. 31 after Congress missed a midnight Jan. 30 deadline to pass a revised federal funding package — disrupting some health systems’ hospital-at-home programs as Medicare waivers tied to the service temporarily lapsed. Although…
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AdventHealth Castle Rock (Colo.) has launched a virtual nursing model aimed at streamlining inpatient admissions and enhancing bedside care. The virtual admit nursing program, now live, is a nursing-led model wherein trained virtual nurses complete or assist with inpatient admissions,…
The Orlando (Fla.) VA Health Care System is implementing ambient artificial intelligence technology to assist with clinical documentation. The tool listens to clinician-patient conversations and generates draft medical notes in real time. Clinicians can review, edit and finalize the notes.…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence has reduced its IT application portfolio by more than a third, saving “millions” of dollars in the process, a leader told Becker’s. The 51-hospital system has downsized from over 2,000 applications five years ago to about 1,300…
Tulsa, Okla.-based Saint Francis Health System has rolled out a hospital-at-home program it says will continue even if Medicare reimbursement stops. The health system launched acute hospital care at home in collaboration with local payer CommunityCare, which is jointly owned…
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Health systems continue to look to Big Tech to increase access to primary and virtual care as healthcare leaders recognize it’s “not a traditional brick-and-mortar industry anymore,” as one executive told Becker’s. In the past month, two health systems expanded…
Researchers at Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University have developed a soft, flexible probe that can continuously monitor fetal vital signs in real time during surgery. The device — described by the school as the first of its kind — fits through…
Four months into the job, Joel Klein, MD, executive vice president and chief digital and information officer of Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health, already has a packed calendar. On the technology front, the 18-hospital network is implementing a new enterprise…
Bainbridge, Ga.-based Memorial Hospital and Manor intends to leverage the $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program to make technology improvements, the Post-Searchlight reported. The organization, which includes an 80-bed hospital and long-term and personal care facilities, is eyeing the…
Mayo Clinic has joined a $13 million funding round for BrightInsight, a digital health startup focused on medical adherence. The Rochester, Minn.-based health system is among the new investors in the company, along with such venture capital firms as General…