Ascension is facing two class action lawsuits for the May 8 ransomware attack that reportedly continues to disrupt operations due to disconnection from the Epic EHR and is causing long ER wait times for some of the health system’s 140 hospitals.
Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center have announced a gift of $100 million from the Jean and Mack Pogue family in support of the new $5 billion Dallas pediatric campus that was unveiled earlier this year. The gift from the Pogue Foundation is one of only four $100 million philanthropic gifts ever publicly announced […]
These platforms have revolutionized the way physicians look at medical education in clinical practice, says Dr. Reza Ryan Sadeghian, principal health IT strategist at MITConn Consulting.
Christopher Kunney won a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award as advocacy chair for the HIMSS Georgia chapter and much more, including being involved in the HIMSS Health Equity Policy Task Force, the YMCA and Carry Meds that supplies drugs and supplies to West Africa.
U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Dr. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have introduced legislation, the Pay PCPs Act, to better support and improve pay for high-quality primary care providers by reforming how they get paid through Medicare. The lawmakers also released a Request for Information so the healthcare industry could weigh in on the best methods […]
Babyscripts, a virtual maternity care program for managing obstetrics, is collaborating with Lyft Healthcare to provide sponsored rides to and from doctor appointments for transportation-insecure maternity patients via Lyft Pass. The collaboration is supported by grant funding awarded to Babyscripts by Lyft Healthcare, and will aid maternity patients in attending care appointments, regardless of risk, […]
Jefferson and Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania have signed a definitive agreement to combine, creating an integrated academic healthcare delivery system, alongside a national research university and an expanded not-for-profit health plan. The unified system would place it within the top 15 not-for-profit health systems in the United States, Jefferson said.
Remote monitoring, data capture and delivery of care services inside the home allows for site-agnostic care, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer at Biofourmis.
Prices paid to hospitals by employers and private insurers for both inpatient and outpatient services in 2022 averaged 254% of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND report.
Qualified health information networks allow providers to find all of the records in every location where a patient has been, across his or her lifetime, says Dr. John Blair, CEO, MedAllies, whose company was recently named a QHIN designee.