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The new algorithm from Implicityevaluates implantable device data and monitors patients for changes that suggest they could experience severe heart failure symptoms in the near future. It was designed to alert clinicians up to weeks in advance.
The Rand Corporation is reporting that, in 2022, employers and private insurers paid hospitals an average 254% more than what Medicare would have spent for the same services in the same facilities.
Four of five hospital leaders trust the accuracy of their institution’s data. Yet almost half of useable data gets underutilized if not completely untapped for guiding business and clinical decisions.
Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund has the wherewithal to pay the full bill for beneficiaries’ stays in hospitals, hospice sites and skilled nursing facilities for the next 12 years. But what then?
“Most health systems rely on a financial cost-containment model to inform staffing decisions. Clinicians understand the patient populations and needs over time, yet they are currently excluded from most staffing decisions,” the authors write.
ChatGPT is only so-so at letting physicians know if any given clinical study is relevant to their patient rosters and, as such, deserving of a full, time-consuming read. On the other hand ...
Healthcare CFOs spend more time dealing with cost management and, by extension, operational issues than any other single set of items on their to-do lists.
“Applause broke out in the OR. It was quite an amazing experience,” recalls Winfred Williams, MD, associate professor of medicine at MGH and Slayman’s nephrologist, referring to the moment the kidney “immediately pinked up” during implantation.
Imperfect algorithms. Resistant clinicians. Wary patients. Divisive disparities. The plot ingredients of a flashy techno-thriller coming to a cineplex near you? No—just a few of the many worries that provider organizations take on when they move to adopt AI at scale.
Early May will mark the first anniversary of the officially declared end of the COVID-19 public health emergency by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Nevertheless ...
The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible.