Medicaid programs are in a period of heightened scrutiny, as states confront growing complexity in how these programs are administered and sustained. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis highlights how …
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Whenever people think of at-home care, generally it’s tied to remote monitoring or at-home diagnostics or temporary hospital-at-home programs. But at-home care now includes palliative care. In this month’s pivot …
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The case for AI-powered documentation tools has moved from theory to data. By mid-2025, 62.6 percent of U.S. hospitals running Epic had deployed some form of ambient AI scribing, according …
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Healthcare workforce strategy has long centered on reducing, responding to and recovering from turnover. That’s certainly true for organizations that employ allied health professionals, where turnover costs amount to $14,200 …
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Almost every healthcare AI pilot I have seen clear its success criteria has gone on to struggle in production, sometimes within months of going live, and almost always for reasons …
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If you have interacted in the past few years with a medical chatbot, you probably walked away feeling like it was helpful for simple tasks and frustrating for anything even …
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The recent attention surrounding hantavirus has understandably unsettled people. A virus associated with rodents, severe respiratory illness, and mortality rates that can exceed 35% is going to generate concern whenever …
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Why the Office of Personnel Management Needs Access to Government Employee Health Plan Claims Data
The Office of Personnel Management recently made headlines by requesting health claims data for workers covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program. The government needs this itemized data to ensure …
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Hospital Networks are Becoming Targets in Cyberwarfare, and They’re Unequipped to Deal With It
In March, a major cyberattack hit Stryker, one of the world’s largest medical technology companies. The group that claimed responsibility, Handala, is linked to Iran, and the hackers were explicit …
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Roche is a relative latecomer in the chase to block a protein called KRAS G12C to treat lung cancer, but the pharmaceutical company has been testing its contender head-to-head against …