Helping patients and health systems understand how to use technology delivers health benefits for everyone, says Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director of health informatics at Trinity Health and a 2025 Changemaker Award recipient.
Training staff to take advantage of AI and other technologies that will help supplement the workforce is important, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.
Work that used to be done by 200 people can now be done by 20 as AI becomes a digital workforce for such administrative tasks as claims appeal letters, says Anurag Mehta, CEO of Omega Healthcare.
The departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury are seeking public input on how to improve prescription drug price transparency.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New Jersey has approved a plan for Rite Aid to sell 64 of its stores to CVS Health and the prescription files of 625 Rite Aid pharmacies across 15 states, with more details about the deal to be revealed in the coming weeks, according to an announcement from CVS.
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.