EHR vendors and the companies that build on their platforms are pitching health systems a growing lineup of tools, many of them powered by AI and marketed as ways to save clinicians time, flag at-risk patients earlier or take work…
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In about two months, hospitals will start paying full price up front for 21 drugs and waiting for their 340B discounts to come back as rebates, unless a court or Congress stops the change first. Here are five questions hanging…
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The leaders of the two largest hospital EHR vendors agree that AI will remake the medical record. Where they part ways is on what that AI should be built from, who should own the data underneath it and how health…
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Many patient safety initiatives are missing a key component that can mean the difference between long-term change and abandoned projects: executive follow-through. “Patient safety is not an initiative problem in American healthcare,” Kriti Shree, a healthcare performance improvement and transformation…
Hackers used Anthropic’s Claude Code to compromise at least 15 healthcare organizations in Argentina, according to cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. A second threat actor, who is Chinese-speaking, primarily reached Claude models through a China-based proxy service and targeted more than 20…
Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health has named Amanda Todorovich senior vice president and chief marketing officer, effective Nov. 16. Ms. Todorovich announced the appointment in an Oct. 25 LinkedIn post. She joins Duke Health after nearly 14 years at Cleveland Clinic,…
The U.S. spent $5.3 trillion on healthcare in 2024, or more than $10 million every minute, according to a KFF Health News analysis published Oct. 23. The analysis draws on the most recent national health expenditure data from CMS. National…