Telehealth was a critical lifeline for people in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, though this was especially true for Medicare beneficiaries, with more than 28 million beneficiaries using virtual health services during the first year of the public-health emergency, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of […]

The use of algorithms has saved lives at the University of Missouri Health Care. The health system put in place an early-warning system tied to the EHR to alert rapid-response teams of a patient’s risk for developing sepsis, a life-threatening infection.

Telehealth technology has been cited for its convenience, especially when usage skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are also frustrations, according to recently released UnitedHealth Group research.

During HIMSS22, Philips gave its top predictions for the future of healthcare systems over the next three years based on labor market trends and the expansion of hospital-at-home services. Roy Jakobs, chief business leader of Connected Care at Philips, offered the following predictions:

The Department of Health and Human Services is establishing a number of grant programs, encompassing $43.7 million worth of funding, that are intended to strengthen mental health and substance use services for those with HIV and AIDS.

In the spring of 2020, the virus that causes COVID-19 was tearing across the country and wreaking havoc on patients and on the healthcare systems that served them. No hospital, system or ancillary facility was left unaffected. In South Dakota, when the regional health system Avera Health saw clinics shut down and its hospitals in […]

RevSpring and Cerner are expanding their partnership through omnichannel payment solutions to boost performance and patient engagement. More than 1,500 Cerner customers can access RevSpring’s PersonaPay, Talksoft and IVR Advantage solutions, to streamline, for example, the coordination of all payment data and communications in back-office work.