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Healthcare procurement leaders and legal executives are discovering that today’s CLM solutions hold the keys to improved agility, resilience, and competitiveness—while ensuring regulatory compliance.

A new rule proposed by CMS aims to increase Medicare inpatient prospective payment system rates.

The American College of Physicians outlined guiding principles for future improvements in personal health data collection and use.

Scott Giordano, JD, from Spirion, discusses how data collection on smartphones raises security issues for consumers’ health care data and whether COVID-19 vaccine passports will truly be capable of keeping our data safe.

Risk-based thinking should not be confined to just patient care; it must be implemented among all aspects of hospital operations in order to be successful.

A new CVS Health initiative uses a localized approach to increase mental health care accessibility and affordability, particularly for vulnerable populations like young adults and people of color.

Use of teledermatology has greatly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are remaining concerns that may hinder its use after the public health emergency, according to a speaker at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.

News in orthopedics, technology, and neurodiagnostics.

A leader in the transition to value-based care answers questions about a point-of-care option.

Survey responses from health care facilities across the country outline current nurse shortages and foretell of future vacancies.

Twistle's CEO, Kulmeet Singh, says he's come up with a reliable way to measure return on investment for his company's remote monitoring software solutions.

Responses collected from longitudinal surveys show how patient-reported data can help improve hospital quality.

AstraZeneca and MGH announced their digital health partnership earlier this month, saying it would allow them to pair a patient app with a clinician dashboard to deploy remote patient monitoring and evidence-based patient care.

The Texas Hospital Association said the unexpected move from CMS brings uncertainty to the state's safety net hospitals.

A changing of the guard at Children's, Alabama's only freestanding pediatric hospital.

Researchers weight the benefits and risks of inpatient units for children and young patients.

Hospitals created “pop-up” emergency rooms to keep COVID-19 patients separate from the general hospital population, and this could create cybersecurity challenges.

Researches have validated a five-item assessment tool that can be used to measure clinicians' compassion.

Microsoft will acquire Nuance Communications, Inc. for around $16 billion.

Besides the ability to ramp up quicky, healthcare leaders are looking for systems that can accommodate remote work—and some predict that certain workers who fled offices due to COVID-19 will never return to traditional settings.

A panel of experts discussed how care coordinating technologies that were employed during the pandemic can help improve home care for patients in a post-COVID-19 world.

Survey responses illustrate the impact COVID-19 has had on health system employees, including considerations of leaving the workforce and concerns about childcare.

Known by different names around the globe, from vaccine passports or green passes, various digital certificates confirm vaccination and negative SARS-CoV-2 test status through “confidential data transfers."

A new bipartisan law signed by Illinois' governor aims to tackle health disparities seen in the state's most vulnerable populations.

With less than half of the workers having been vaccinated and some suffering long-term effects from the stress of the past year, it’s clear from the survey results that the effects of the pandemic will be with health workers for months or years to come.

Interventions to address and prevent near miss events must be customized to a nurse's individual risk profile.

Departures at Walmart signal setbacks in plans for in-store clinics.

Leadership that passes the stress test successfully deals with what is commonly known as the pain-in-the-ass factor.