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The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver is set to expire this year unless Congress acts.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Enabled by AI, AvaSure has a virtual nursing platform that is helping to bring the joy back to nursing, says CEO Adam McMullin.</span></span></span></p>

Layoffs are affecting nonclinical, non-member-facing administrative staff through attrition, closing of open positions and reducing redundancies.

<p>Through connecting positive changes to new IT, clinicians will embrace technology optimization, says Rachelle Landry, VP of clinical transformation at BD. <br />  </p>

The American Hospital Association called the FTC ruling, "bad law, bad policy and a clear sign of an agency run amok."

<p>Technological innovation can be an asset rather than a burden if developers listen to their frontline people, says Dr. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, president of the American Medical Association.<br />  </p>

Rule requires 80% of Medicaid Home and Community Based Services payments to directly compensate workers rather than "administrative overhead." 

CMS says it is developing a $75 million national nursing home staffing campaign to increase the number of nurses, 

<p>Dr. Monika Sonu, Healthinnovation Toolbox cofounder and HIMSS24 Changemaker, discusses how her medical practice helps inform the development of digital health tools that aim to help address issues that include health equity and interoperability.</p>

<p>As care has moved into the outpatient and home setting, nurses are looking at more technologies that support care delivery, says MaryAnn Connor, senior director of nursing informatics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.</p>