A new report from Lown Institute, a healthcare think tank based in Massachusetts, found that the majority of nonprofit hospitals are falling short on the investments they are expected to make in their communities.
Lown…
Every time a physician or a nurse practitioner sees a patient, they create a document. It may be a clinic note or an encounter note. Similarly, every time a diagnostic physician such as a…
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For health tech companies to achieve lasting scale, they must keep a close eye on operational, financial and clinical performance metrics. This is especially crucial now — the cost of capital is rising and…
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Last week, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a report letting healthcare organizations know that they are still being heavily targeted by KillNet, a Russian group of cybercriminals.
The hacker gang operates mainly…
To improve healthcare accessibility for patients on Medicare and Medicaid, healthcare marketplace Zocdoc announced last week that it is adding Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to its marketplace.
FQHCs are health clinics that focus on…
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The healthcare industry has had a love-hate relationship with patient data. There’s either too much or too little, in the wrong format or siloed so that extracting and sharing it with all the people…
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The mental healthcare system in the United States has failed Black people and people of color. It’s failing everyone who lacks privilege, and it’s failing those who don’t know to seek help for their…
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In a recent survey, three out of five American health consumers (61%) said they can envision most primary care services being provided at pharmacies, retail clinics, and/or pharmacy clinics instead of going to a…
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In late February, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a set of proposed rules that would roll back some of the flexibilities allowed during the pandemic for the prescribing of controlled substances via telemedicine. The…
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Traditionally, health systems have operated and behaved as unified entities in name only, with different hospitals and facilities within the same system working off of their own sets of key performance metrics, finances, and…
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