EMS clinicians routinely identify and treat patients with conditions like hypoxia, hypotension, shock or sepsis before reaching the emergency department. By the time an emergency physician evaluates the patient, the initial instability may have resolved but clinical complexity, monitoring needs…
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DSO affiliation among U.S. dentists more than doubled over the past decade, rising from 7.2% in 2015 to 16.1% in 2024. That growth creates opportunity, but it also raises the operational stakes. A revenue cycle that works cleanly across two…
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Hospital executives have spent years fielding accusations about their industry’s role in driving up U.S. healthcare costs, pressure that sharpened in April when four health system CEOs testified before a House committee as lawmakers pressed them on pricing, consolidation and…
Oracle Health’s month centered on the fallout from last year’s Cerner data breach, a new rural EHR go-live and a fresh look at how its federal contracts stack up against the rest of the industry’s priciest EHR projects. Here are…
A regional health system was running its urgent care network at a loss and struggling to meet patient demand. Rather than retreat, it partnered to rebuild the service line around a retail-style operating playbook attracting new patients to the system,…
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A water main break in the Winston-Salem, N.C., area has prompted Novant Health to pause elective surgical procedures and transition to virtual appointments, according to a July 30 update from the system. Elective surgeries are paused at three locations in…
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted 12-11 July 30 to support a full Senate vote on three Trump administration nominees, including two HHS leaders. The three nominees on the agenda were Sean Kaufman for HHS assistant…
Clinicians at CHRISTUS Health keep describing their AI platform the same way: ”This is life-changing.” But when it came time to deepen the partnership, leadership did not rely on early wins alone. They looked at how much the platform had…
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Revenue cycle management company Waystar has named Alpana Wegner as its next CFO, effective Aug. 1. Ms. Wegner joins Waystar with more than 25 years of finance and operational leadership experience, including serving as CFO for several publicly traded companies,…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan faces a complaint alleging it used an autonomous digital system to triage and refer behavioral health patients in Northern California without oversight from licensed clinicians. The complaint, submitted to the California Department of Managed…
