Hawaii Pacific Health in Honolulu is planning on redevelopment of Straun Benioff Medical Center, and has received $4 million from the Hawaii Medical Service Association to fund the project. It’s HMSA’s largest gift to HPH and the first to Straub Benioff.
Strategic collaborations between payers, providers and health IT vendors are accelerating gains in healthcare efficiency, quality and financial performance, according to the latest KLAS Points of Light” report.
Digital health outfit Waltz Health is teaming with WellDyne to enhance transparency for specialty pharmacy clients. Powered by Waltz Connect, the collaboration brings Waltz Health’s Intelligent Specialty Engine to WellDyne’s clients, starting with a select list of high-cost specialty medications and expanding throughout the year.
A new report released by the White House outlines the current administration’s approach to child health, pinning much of the blame of childhood chronic disease on factors such as diet, physical activity and “overmedicalization,” or overmedicating.
Julie Luengas, chief nursing informatics officer at Stony Brook Medicine Information Technology, says a group of nurses at a HIMSS25 session announced a free toolkit that can help ensure health systems are using AI responsibly.
Evernorth, the health services division of Cigna, is debuting a pharmacy benefit management program geared to make Wegovy and Zepbound more available to patients by capping the amount they spend monthly on GLP-1 medications. Through negotiations with the medications’ manufacturers, Everborth said it will cap patient’s monthly cost at no more than $200. The goal, […]
The House early Thursday morning passed President Trump’s reconciliation bill in a 215-214 vote, sending it to the Senate where some Republicans are reportedly balking at its adding $3.8 trillion to the federal deficit.
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.