Spending on home healthcare surged in November, experiencing a 12.9% year-over-year increase, closely trailed by prescription drug spending, which soared 12.2%, according to a Jan. 31reportfrom nonprofit Altarum. Altarum released its latest "Health Sector Economic Indicators" report that sheds light on critical aspects of the nation's health sector. The report offers an analysis of data on...

Data centers can be costly, requiring healthcare organizations to allocate funds toward investments in servers, routers, switches and various other infrastructure elements to sustain them, making CIOs want to get out of the business. Renton, Wash.-based Providence decided to transition away from on-premise data centers five years ago, especially after recognizing that the operational aspect of running data...

Private-sector hospitals, clinics, and insurers are bloated, bureaucratic nightmares compared to efficiently run Veterans Health Administration facilities that put care over profits, a new study reveals. The study, by researchers at Hunter College of the City University of New York, Harvard Medical School, the Veterans Health Administration, and the University of Washington,...

Academic medical centers such as Vanderbilt and the University of Minnesota have created centers to train learning health system scientistsand coordinate research projects. Now the University of California San Diego School of Medicine will establish a Center for Learning Health Systems Science to provide instructional and experiential learning opportunities for clinicians and researchers in...

Stephen Dorner, MD, chief clinical and innovation officer of Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home, toldBecker'sthat the more home-based care models are scaled, the more opportunity there is to move the needle and flatten the curve of healthcare costs in the U.S. Boston-based Mass General Brigham, which runs one of the largest home hospital programs in the country, has had more than...

Hospitals and insurers are racing to find new artificial intelligence tools to give them an edge in billing and processing their part of the $4 trillion in medical expenses Americans accrue each year. As one of the largest parts of the U.S. economy undergoes perhaps its biggest transition in decades, billions of dollars are at stake — not only for health care providers and insurers, but also...

The hype around healthcare artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch, but most doctors are holding back from trying it out in their medical practice, for now. A recent survey by Elation Health found that 67% of primary care physicians have not yet tried an AI-powered medical scribe solution and are looking to electronic health record vendors to guide them to the...

Approximately half of Cerner's Millennium customers, focused on automating hospitals much like Epic, are expected to transition to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by February, Larry Ellison, chief technology officer of Oracle, said in a Dec. 11 earnings call.

According to hospitals and health system C-suite leaders, 2024 will be the year of artificial intelligence integration, patient engagement 2.0 and regulation for the healthcare industry. Generative AI will revolutionize healthcare by integrating with a range of applications and we will see a greater focus on AI governance. Healthcare systems will also revisit the first generation of engagement tools and seek new...

A bipartisan group of U.S. representativesintroduceda bill Nov. 28 that would ban fees on electronic healthcare payments that cost hospitals millions of dollars. The No Fees for EFTs Act would outlaw payers from tacking on fees for providers to be reimbursed electronically. The ACA required payers to offer electronic payments to providers, but payers and middlemen charge as much as 5% for the...