Just 5% of U.S. adults say a doctor or other healthcare professional has talked to them about gun safety, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation report on Americans’ experiences with gun-related violence.
Healthcare must be responsive to the consumer needs for convenience, and virtual care and AI will help get us there, says Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman in a preview of his HIMSS23 session with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf.
A HIMSS23 presentation on three data projects in the real world will feature the National Institutes of Health’s Sarah Warner, Premier’s Ning Rosenthal and Myla Maloney, and the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Dr. Ferric Fang.
At HIMSS23, Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, an otolaryngologist and AMA Board of Trustees member, will speak on the ways technology can grant access to improve equity in healthcare.
A federal jury has convicted three former executives of Outcome Health, a Chicago-based health technology start-up company, for their roles in an alleged fraud scheme that targeted the company’s clients, lenders and investors and involved roughly $1 billion in fraudulent financial gain, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
From the COVID-19 pandemic, health equity has emerged as an issue that needs to be addressed alongside clinical care. Accelerating health equity is the Data Humanity Lab, a research project that has mapped socio-economic data down to zip codes and individual streets for all of New York State – and in Manhattan, to the floor-by-floor level […]
HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf shares his views on the greater themes in this increasingly global conference and exhibition. He reviews some innovations in healthcare information and technology he’s eager to see in Chicago next week.
More rays of light are emerging for U.S. nonprofit hospitals on the labor front, according to the latest from Fitch Ratings, with hospital and ambulatory healthcare services payrolls having risen for 14 and 26 consecutive months, respectively, as of March. Monthly job additions are also up 15,150 and 24,300 per month, respectively, between March 2022 […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to healthcare organizations, saying a flood of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks could shut down their websites.