The opening session at the ViVE conference, taking place this week at Nashville’s Music City Center, on Feb. 17, had speakers acknowledging the complex and challenging policy and operational landscape around healthcare information technology adoption, along with statements strongly affirming the role of advancing technology promising to help clinicians and patient care organizations deliver better patient care.
Cybersecurity is a top priority for health systems this year after devastating attacks against large health systems, small hospitals and vendor partners over the last few years. Hacker tactics are evolving and so are health system strategies. Last year, 38% of health system leaders responding to a Bain & Company and KLAS survey about digital priorities said IT infrastructure and services including cybersecurity were in their top three priorities.
The federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) announced the 12 teams selected by its Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed & InteGrated Medical care (PARADIGM) program to receive awards. The program aims to create a multi-functional, rugged electric vehicle platform equipped with advanced medical devices to deliver hospital-level care in rural communities across the country.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming hospital operating rooms and administrative processes, becoming essential for both clinical and financial success. As hospitals increasingly integrate automation and generative AI into their operations, many forward-thinking leaders are looking ahead to the next frontier: AI agents. By integrating AI agents within EHRs, health systems can detect early disease warnings, recommend treatments, enhance precision medicine, and predict patient outcomes.
In December, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it was terminating the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model at the end of 2025 due to the model’s “substantial and unmitigable costs to the Medicare Trust Funds.” Calling the costs “unprecedented” in CMS Innovation Center models, the VBID model cost CMS $2.3 billion in Calendar Year (CY) 2021 and $2.2 billion in CY 2022. Although the model is being terminated a year early, lessons learned from this program can inform future MA plan design, CMS said.
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