The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requested public input on creating a CMS-led national directory of providers and services last week. While America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) agrees with having a national directory, the organization has a slightly different vision for it. CMS is proposing a system in which it would collect information from providers that would go […]
When MDR providers add automated threat response, threat hunting and remediation capabilities to XDR, and when they offer access to skilled security analytics, they show that they’re “laser-focused” on defending healthcare organizations, Thorn says. They’re also going above and beyond what’s typically available from a managed security service provider. “MSSP services tend to be reactive in nature, focused on management, […]
More than 90 percent of physicians who are part of a labor union in Santa Clara County have voted to authorize a strike if the county continues to act in bad faith with regard to working conditions affecting patient care and physician’s mental health, the labor union Valley Physicians Group announced Tuesday. The VPG labor union includes more than 450 […]
WTF Health By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH At Dreamforce 2022, Salesforce’s big annual user conference, “real-time data” was THE topic of conversation as the tech company launched a brand-new platform across its lines of business to help make this type of data integration-plus-analytics “magically” easy. I caught up with Salesforce’s EVP & CRO of Global Health & Life Sciences, LaShonda […]
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed home health payment rule for 2023 reasonably ruffled feathers across the industry. When given the opportunity to respond, interested parties pointed out some of the potential effects of the proposal, if finalized. Among them: reduced access to care and a worsening patient-to-clinician ratio. One of the public commenters on the […]
The fourth annual ENGAGE at HLTH conference will highlight conversations around patient engagement, such as drug prices, AI, and investment trends. The event is scheduled for Sunday, November 13, from 9:30 am to 1pm PST on the Disco stage at The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, in partnership with the larger HLTH conference. ENAGE at HLTH will explore how providers […]
A Pennsylvania judge has temporarily blocked plans by Crozer Health to close its Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill and convert it into a behavioral healthcare facility. Court of Common Pleas Judge Robert Shenkin ruled Tuesday that all present operations at Delaware County Memorial should continue and that the parties should meet to discuss changes to the hospital. Shenkin’s preliminary injunction followed a […]
The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. Kelly Salb, director of client services at Family & Nursing Care, has been named […]
In 2016, the American Medical Association declared gun violence a public health crisis. That declaration came after 49 people were killed and another 53 were injured by a gunman at a gay nightclub in Florida. That shooting came four years after 26 people, including 20 children, were massacred by a gunman at an elementary school in Connecticut. When the shooting […]
Georgetown Community Hospital (Georgetown, Ky.) plans to construct Parkview Medical Plaza, a 20-acre campus medical plaza that will include a medical office building (MOB), restaurants, banks, and a grocery store, according to the website news-graphic.com. The hospital will lease 30,000 square feet of the project for physician and hospital service space. Construction is expected to be completed by September 2023.