RICHMOND, Va. — In late July, Norman Otey was rushed by ambulance to Richmond Community Hospital. The 63-year-old was doubled over in pain and babbling incoherently. Blood tests suggested septic shock, a grave emergency that required the resources and expertise of an intensive care unit. But Richmond Community, a struggling hospital in a predominantly Black … Read more
In 2018, senior executives at one of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital chains, Providence, were frustrated. They were spending hundreds of millions of dollars providing free health care to patients. It was eating into their bottom line. The executives, led by Providence’s chief financial officer at the time, devised a solution: a program called Rev-Up. … Read more
What the Jinks family wanted was to sue the memory care facility where their father, Charles, was attacked by another resident. It happened in October 2020, after Hurricane Laura forced his hasty evacuation from a similar facility in Louisiana. His three children moved him, at 80 years old and diagnosed with dementia, into Brookdale Dowlen … Read more
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – A measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed more than 700 children and infected thousands of others, highlighting the risks of faltering childhood vaccination campaigns around the world. As of 6 September, the country’s Ministry of Health and Child Care was reporting more than 6,500 cases and 704 deaths. Since then it has … Read more
Data from a fertility center showed that many women are unable to become pregnant because of the age at which they froze their eggs and because they did not preserve enough of them.
In this HIMSSCast podcast, the discussion centers on the data challenges that have accompanied the Affordable Care Act’s Community Health Needs Assessments and hospitals’ improvement strategies. The guest is Michael A. Stoto, PhD, professor emeritus in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the School of Health at Georgetown University. Like what you hear? Subscribe … Read more
A recent study published in PLOS One and conducted by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers in Boston reveals virtual reality use during hand surgery led to significant reductions in intraoperative anesthetic without negatively impacting patient-reported outcomes. In a small, eight-month randomized controlled trial, researchers evaluated 34 patients undergoing hand surgery and the amount of … Read more
Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow. Advanced … Read more
The American Telehealth Association is working with Congress and several federal agencies to shape the fate of policies and payments for telehealth services that experienced a rapid uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS Now that President Joe Biden has declared the COVID-19 pandemic over, the ATA’s Telehealth Awareness Week policy update webinar explored … Read more
The Indian Council of Medical Research, India’s apex body for biomedical research, is working on a national initiative to produce high quality medical datasets representing the diversity of the Indian population. It has signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to collaborate in this effort with ARTPARK (AI & Robotics Technology Park), … Read more