Health systems have poured money and attention into scaling AI over the last several years — but, of course, not every pilot makes it that far. For Tinu Tadese, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Boston Medical Center, the clearest…
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Seven hundred rural hospitals across the U.S., or about one-third of all rural facilities in the country, are at risk of closing due to severe financial challenges, according to a July 21 Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform analysis.…
Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health was sending patients to outside hospitals, even when the system could provide the same care. The 10-hospital system’s transfer acceptance rate sat at 67.5%. President and CEO E.J. Kuiper decided the system needed a dedicated…
Manchester, Iowa-based Regional Medical Center has completed a major renovation of its radiology department, with the upgraded space opening in June. The renovation expanded the department’s diagnostic capacity with a state-of-the-art mammography suite, a dedicated bone density suite and two…
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has received a $50 million gift to launch the David M. Einhorn Institute for Early Relational Health. Four things to know: 1. The donation is from Einhorn Collaborative, which is a foundation dedicated to advancing the…
CMS on July 21 proposed sweeping changes to Medicaid provider tax policy that would replace the longstanding 6% federal threshold with state- and provider-specific limits, phase down allowable taxes in Medicaid expansion states, create a new provider tax class for…
GLP-1 medications are linked to a 17.3% drop in long-term sickness leave over four years, according to a working paper published in July by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Researchers compared 7,011 patients who started Ozempic during the drug’s…
In the nation’s largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis, the CDC has reported 4,940 lab-confirmed and 341 hospitalizations across 41 states, according to a July 21 update. Between May 1 and July 20, the federal health agency reported 4,173 domestic cases and…
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health signed a non-binding letter of intent July 22 to join Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health, the two nonprofit systems announced. The proposed partnership includes $2 billion in strategic capital investments to expand access to care and accelerate…
WellSpan Health has completed its migration to Amazon Web Services. The York, Pa.-based health system moved more than 300 clinical applications and 7.5 petabytes of clinical and non-clinical data, including its full Epic EHR environment, off data center infrastructure and…