Healthcare News of Note: Oracle-Cerner deal has the potential to transform...
Oracle’s acquisition of Cerner for $28.3 billion has garnered a good deal of news coverage, given its potential to transform the healthcare industry. There was a decline of 14% in 2020 Medicare...
View ArticleHealthcare News of Note: Cancer is now the top driver of large employers’...
Cancer is the top driver of large companies’ healthcare costs, with 13% of employers reporting more late-stage cancers among employees, and another 44% saying they anticipate such an increase in the...
View ArticleHospital financial metrics took another downturn in July, new report finds
The negative performance offset the moderate gains of the previous few months, according to Kaufman Hall’s monthly report. I recently reported on several key financial and operational metrics that...
View ArticleHospitals issue plea for healthcare policymakers to do more to buttress the...
The American Hospital Association and hospital leaders say recent financial trends are unsustainable for many organizations. In the near term, policymakers can take specific steps to help struggling...
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Metro NY Chapter honors Nurse Heroes
When HFMA’s Metropolitan New York (Metro NY) Chapter invited the local Northwell Health Nurse Choir to perform at its 2022 Joseph A. Levi Annual Institute, it was about much more than simply...
View ArticleHealthcare News of Note: Even many people with ‘good’ health insurance incur...
Medical care inflicts debt on nearly one-fifth of U.S. households, including many with seemingly good health insurance and middle-class incomes. Regulators in Illinois have delayed approval of...
View ArticleHealthcare News of Note: The nation could see an alarming nurse shortage by 2025
There are now more than 203,000 open registered nurse positions nationwide, more than twice the number just before the pandemic in January 2020. The majority of telemedicine diagnoses reach the same...
View ArticlePandemic brought increases in the number of patients leaving the ED without...
Hospitals and health systems should tackle the problem at the organizational level rather than viewing it as an issue for ED clinical and operational staff to solve, researchers say. By one metric,...
View ArticleReeling hospital industry shouldn’t anticipate a turnaround anytime soon
Amid persistent financial and operational turbulence for hospitals, it appears unrealistic to expect significant improvement in ensuing months — and perhaps not even in upcoming years. Through August,...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 public health emergency is over: Here’s what healthcare...
An era ends for the U.S. healthcare industry with the termination of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) at the close of the day on Thursday, May 11. The termination means providers are losing...
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