Scan guidance knows what it’s seeing and guides the user using step-by-step instructions for cardiac assessment, says Vaishali Kamat, GE HealthCare’s general manager of new ventures for ultrasound digital solutions.
Kettering Health in Ohio is dealing with a system-wide technology outage brought on by a cyberattack that allowed unauthorized access to the network. Kettering was first made aware of the incident on May 20, when it noticed an inability to access certain patient care systems. This system failure led to elective inpatient and outpatient procedures […]
Beginning immediately, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is auditing all eligible Medicare Advantage contracts in what the agency is calling a significant expansion of its efforts. The agency will expand its workforce of medical coders from 40 to about 2,000 by September 1 to take care of a backlog. This will expedite the […]
Dr. Maheshwara Rao Appannan, digital health division director at Malaysia’s Ministry of Health and a HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, has been given the task to use digital health maturity to transform the public health system and to better serve its population.
Most employers say they plan on maintaining or even expanding their employee well-being programs, but they’ll be taking vendors to task. According to Business Group on Health’s 2025 Employer Well-being Strategy Survey, 73% of employers plan to maintain their well-being programs and 20% plan on increasing them.