One patient visited a Renown Health emergency department 412 times. Another was admitted 112 times in a single year. Those numbers, Jason Knight, MD, said, present the case for rebuilding how the Reno, Nev.-based system manages its highest utilizers. Renown…
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Nearly every CEO taking over a struggling organization confronts the same question, Fortune reported Aug. 31: How much time do they get to turn things around? Research suggests immediate transformation is unrealistic, Fortune reported. Spencer Stuart’s research has described the…
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As many health systems have deployed enterprise AI at scale — signing vendor contracts, rolling out ambient documentation tools and expanding predictive analytics across clinical workflows — the University of Nebraska System has been building its own. “We’ve now implemented…
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On Sept. 1, Indiana became the third state to ban hospital diversion, a practice that Massachusetts has had for 17 years. But has hospital diversion actually worked? On Jan. 1, 2009, Massachusetts became the first state to enact a hospital…