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By shifting personnel to different departments, Nebraska Medicine Center has shored up labor costs and avoided furloughing workers.

While showing minor improvements over the years, EHR systems consistently failed to detect errors that could injure or kill patients.

Customers who were eligible to pick a Medicare Advantage plan earlier this year, but could not because of the pandemic, are entitled to a special enrollment period.

Factors such as how many patients would need ICU treatment, average length of stay and fatality risk are straining hospital resources.

Insurers need to project the future cost of delayed elective procedures and total expenses of COVID-19 care.

In their HIMSS20 Digital session, privacy policy experts Deven McGraw and Jodi Daniel offer a deeper look at digital patient-access, the APIs that enable it - and the mistakes healthcare organizations make when providing medical records.

Insurers will be issuing a total of about $2.7 billion in refunds, estimates the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Pointing data-gathering efforts in the right direction holds the potential to deliver better value-based care.

A lack of funding from the state means the four South Side hospitals will come up short in their plans to establish a new health system.

Patients want access to everything, according to focus groups interviewed by the Pew Charitable Trusts.