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A study identifies factors that put patients with COVID-19 receiving home-based care at risk for care escalation.

Sentara Healthcare announces the formation of its Supplier Diversity Executive Council.

Ogi Kwon, of R1 Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) offers insights on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of price transparency.

Americans want their providers to use electronic methods to prescribe medications, according to new survey findings.

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.

News in orthopedics, technology, and neurodiagnostics.

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

Ogi Kwon, of R1 Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) speaks on the effectiveness of CMS' price transparency requirements and offers insights into the future of consumerization of health care.

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.

Dr. Peter Slavin is the latest high-level departure at Mass General Bingham.

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

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.

HHS' formula for the Provider Relief Fund based payouts on 2019 revenues, but did not require refunds if losses failed to materialize.

Before the CDC guidelines, 45% of the patients were prescribed opioids, but that fell to 34% after the guidelines.

The calculation method used in the study accounted for heart failure and a patient’s history of opioid use, and found that that both respiratory depression and length of stay continued to cost.

Hospitals face both operational and financial challenges as the pandemic heads past the 12-month mark, according to a report based on interviews with 320 hospital administrators in 45 states.

Healthy Bottom Line will focus on policy issues for health system decision makers.

Media reports say Loretto Hospital administered COVID-19 vaccines at a suburban church where its CEO is a member. The event happened in early February, when shots were in short supply.

The Next will explore healthcare market trends and offer insights into the industry.

Among those surveyed, 3.1% self-identified as having a disability.

Healthcare managers must adapt and recognize the signs of mental health disorders in their workers.

A California hospital executive departs following an uproar over teachers in a well-to-do district gaining access to COVID-19 vaccines.

Data breaches are preventable. Here's how a health exec can safeguard health data.

New data provide insight into the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitals and insurers.

Small healthcare businesses must manage remote and virtual care models with appropriate support, training, reimbursement, and incentive models.

Electronic signature pads save money and reduce paper waste at health systems.

The updated guidance focuses on asymptomatic providers who are exposed to COVID-19.

Automation technologies for healthcare revenue cycle operations may be unnecessarily complex to deploy.

Experts from the front lines of COVID-19 discuss how lessons learned could help close health disparities.

André Blackman of Onboard Health discusses the need for diversity in healthcare.