Inpatient care makes up just 7% of healthcare encounters but drives disproportionate costs and contributes to rising financial strain, even bankruptcy for patients. Low value care erodes hospital margins yet is difficult to define. Ardent Health launched a systemwide initiative…
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Susan Hughes
Vice President Case Management, Ardent
Mukul Mehra
Senior Physician Executive CDS, Premier’s Stanson Health
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Dec. 12 signed the Medical Aid in Dying Bill, a law that establishes eligibility criteria, physician responsibilities and participation protections for medical aid in dying. Here are six things to know:
Conshohocken, Pa.-based pharmaceutical company Cencora plans to acquire the majority of the outstanding equity interests it does not currently own in OneOncology from TPG for approximately $3.6 billion, according to a Dec. 15 press release. OneOncology is a physician-led platform…
As more patient monitoring devices connect to clinical networks and EHRs, health systems face a new frontier of cybersecurity risk. A Becker’s–Philips survey of 100 healthcare leaders found that only half feel their organizations have a moderately or highly mature…
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Independent physicians have faced an uphill battle for decades as reimbursement rates decline below the cost of running a practice and persistent administrative burdens continue to wear physicians’ patience thin. David Eagle, MD, president of the American Independent Medical Practice…
While there is little data that breaks down chief medical officers’ backgrounds by medical specialty, anecdotally, many come from internal medicine, general surgery or anesthesiology, Samuel Bauer, MD, chief medical officer of Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal…
The NAACP is appealing for the “equity-first” development of healthcare AI, ensuring the technology reduces and doesn’t widen health disparities. The civil rights organization partnered with pharma giant Sanofi to release a whitepaper Dec. 11 outlining how to fuse “fairness,…
Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a lawsuit against three major medical organizations alleging they “misled” the public and medical community regarding the reversibility and efficacy of gender-affirming care treatments. Here’s five things to know about the lawsuit: 1. The…
New Jersey is rolling out new obligations for physicians aimed at improving patient safety during sensitive medical exams. The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs has notified more than 67,000 physicians of new state medical board rules regarding breast, pelvic,…
Health systems nationwide have grown to encompass hundreds of care sites, thousands of employees and even more patients, procedures and policies. This amounts to a tall order for chief medical officers, whose roles have shifted drastically over the last several…
