Tag: health systems

July 18, 2024

Hospitals and health systems continue to face persistent challenges from rising costs and labor shortages across clinical, administrative and revenue cycle teams. Recent news from Humana highlights that rising costs, “may persist for an extended period or, in some cases, […]

June 4, 2024

While patient volumes have largely recovered since the COVID-19 pandemic, inflationary pressures and a hot labor market have driven up operating costs for nonprofit health systems, causing median expense growth to outpace median revenue growth in fiscal year 2023, according […]

May 30, 2024

When it comes to healthcare, efficiency isn’t just a goal—it’s a lifeline. With a growing and aging patient population and widespread workforce shortages, hospitals and health systems must find ways to increase efficiencies and do more with less, while providing […]

July 5, 2023

Imagine a giant clock where each single cog wheel contributes to displaying the time accurately. In this complex web of machinery, individual cogs can break, and the clock stops – rendering it useless. Healthcare organizations are at risk of facing […]

December 30, 2022

The findings from the survey reinforce the need for health systems to streamline appointment scheduling to improve care access, foster engagement to drive health awareness and action, and communicate and engage patients using multichannel strategies to accommodate fluctuating preferences. “The […]

December 21, 2022

The HHS publicly released the ownership data for more than 7,000 U.S. hospitals for the first time on Tuesday. The information will be a one-stop-shop for up-to-date hospital ownership for researchers, reporters and the broader public, as many hospitals across […]

November 23, 2022

A number of executives started new roles as chief digital, data and information officers this year at top systems and health firms as providers try to evolve to meet digital demand and face worries over cybersecurity. Providence, Intermountain, Ascension and […]

February 17, 2022

Caravan Health Spurs Rapid Growth, Welcomes 25 New Health Care Systems and Four Existing ACOs into its Collaborative ACO Model Caravan Health (@caravanhealth), a provider of accountable care, is expanding its footprint in the Medicare Shared Savings Program by adding […]

January 14, 2022

Intentions were good, but the new federal rules that were supposed to make hospital bills easier to figure out are instead doing little to help. Hospital prices and reimbursements have long been a riddle wrapped around a cipher. Why the […]

November 1, 2021

WHO is kicking off the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 today in Geneva, with the ambitious target of preventing at least 50% of road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030. WHO and the UN regional commissions, in cooperation […]

June 30, 2021

Hospitals and health systems across the country have been recognizing milestones that didn’t exist two years ago, more than one year since we admitted the first COVID-19 patient. One year since we experienced the first COVID-19 death. One year since […]

November 10, 2020

In Ethiopia, health clinics for teenagers once supported by U.S. foreign aid closed down. In Kenya, a decades-long effort to integrate HIV testing and family planning unraveled. And in Nepal, intrepid government workers who once traversed the Himalayas to spread […]

November 9, 2020

Food insecurity is one of the nation’s leading health and nutrition issues–about 13.7 million (10.5 percent) of households in the United States were food insecure at some time during 2019, a trend likely to increase in light of the COVID-19 […]

September 21, 2020

COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world that vaccines should be prioritized, writes Githinji Gitahi. Imagine a world in which everyone is at risk of contracting a contagious disease with no prevention or cure. A world in which billions of people […]

June 23, 2020

Billions of people using the Earth’s resources and changing or destroying ecosystems are not only creating the global environmental and climate crisis, but also compromising human health and long-term survival of our species, experts warn in an open letter to […]

June 17, 2020

Recently, Jon Pearce talked about how health systems can, and must, see virtual care as a part of their long term success. Virtual care isn’t a temporary fix—it’s a longstanding solution. But what does that solution actually look like in […]

December 23, 2019

Derek Lewis was working as an electronic health records specialist for the nation’s largest hospital chain when he heard about software defects that might even “kill a patient.” The doctors at Midwest (City) Regional Medical Center in Oklahoma worried that […]

October 25, 2019

No country is fully prepared for the next epidemic or pandemic, according to the first edition of the Global Health Security Index. Released today, the index shows that only 13 of nearly 200 countries score in the top tier, suggesting […]

October 14, 2019

When Ashley Pintos went to the emergency room of St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., in 2016, with a sharp pain in her abdomen and no insurance, a representative demanded a $500 deposit before treating her. “She said, ‘Do […]

September 10, 2019

Economists and researchers long have blamed the high cost of health care in Northern California on the giant medical systems that have gobbled up hospitals and physician practices — most notably Sutter Health, a nonprofit chain with 24 hospitals, 34 […]