Strategic Planning

HIMSS Senior Director of Congressional Affairs broke down how the massive spending bill will boost telehealth, Medicaid and other crucial health IT needs.

The average direct cost for acute care episodes for home patients was about half of the cost of the control patients cared for in the hospital during the test phase, hospital officials say.

The potential ability to lower the cost and target insured employees in a personalized, digital way better and more effectively than traditional providers and insurers has many in the sector taking notice.

Don't get lost in the complexity of large-scale use cases. Instead, shift your IT strategy, keep a narrow scope, and provide a framework to evaluate tools and then apply them.

The new bipartisan organization, which includes Mark Cuban, Andy Richter, Bradley Whitford, Atul Gawande, former CMS head Mark McClellan and several hospital CEOs, will advocate for policies that lower care costs while improving access.

Stock market at closing bell recovered to an 1,175 point drop.

Low-value healthcare services, sometimes cited as overuse or waste, refers to medical tests and procedures that have been shown to provide little benefit in certain clinical scenarios.

Ruben Amarasingham, MD, the startup's CEO, will also present at the HIMSS Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare conference on clinical augmentation for artificial intelligence.

The increase represents a substantial impact, especially given the use of many high-cost drugs, the report says. The firm also points to biosimilars as opportunity to thwart spending.

The entire ecosystem is changing, forcing smart CIOs to keep pace or face significant disruption.