What You Should Know:
– Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today announced the repeal of federal policy that financially rewarded hospitals for reporting staff vaccination rates, a policy he described…
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What You Should Know:
– The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued the 2026 Final Rule that officially codifies the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), an innovative new blueprint for tech-enabled, outcome-based…
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Doctors at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and University College London have developed an app that helps clinicians to manage menopause patients’ symptoms.
MENO.pause uses national and international guidelines from the National…
Left to right: Andrew Moore, group chair; Keli Shipley, regional client executive, Microsoft UK; Will Monaghan, group chief digital information officer; Jacob West, managing director, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Microsoft UK; group chief executive…
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JAMA Network Open recently published an Original Investigation titled “Patient Care Technology Disruptions Associated With the CrowdStrike Outage.” The UCSD authors found disruptions at 759 of 2,200 hospitals during the July 19, 2024 outage,…
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Staff at two hospitals in the south west of England have resorted to using paper after a major IT incident just days before the planned resident doctors’ strikes.
Cheltenham and Gloucester NHS Foundation Trust reported…
1. Standardization and Consistency
Modern CMUs aim to unify monitoring across hospitals, reducing variability in how patients are observed and how teams respond to critical events. A centralized hub supports consistent protocols, messaging and accountability,…
The Rising Healthcare Infrastructure Challenge
Healthcare facilities face unprecedented financial pressures in today’s medical landscape. Hospital at home care models represent a revolutionary solution to escalating infrastructure costs and patient care demands. Traditional hospitals require…
Healthcare professionals across Greater Manchester can now access radiology images directly through the Greater Manchester Care Record (GM Care Record), advancing joined-up care for the region.
The GM Care Record system provides health and social…
Overview of the CrowdStrike Hospital Crisis
More than 750 U.S. hospitals experienced significant technology disruptions during the July 2024 CrowdStrike software failure, marking one of the most widespread cybersecurity incidents to impact healthcare infrastructure in…
