Thanks to digital solutions, the healthcare industry has made immense progress over the last few decades. In a not-so-distant future, the state of things will be even more exciting. A smartwatch could ...

Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to streamline the increasingly enormous timesink that ...

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has announced the launch of a database which provides Medicare payment rates for outpatient procedures, cataract surgeries and MRIs to ...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are highly prevalent in the healthcare industry—a trend that will likely continue into the foreseeable future. The first half of 2024 saw 31 announced hospital M&As, ...

The hospital bedside is undergoing a technological shift, led by companies such as Sickbay. The healthcare platform offers software for collecting and delivering physiologic data at scale. This ...

Hospitals and health systems are sharing more patient information at more points of care than ever before. From nursing notes to financial data to medication and supply inventory, clinicians now store ...

Hospitals don’t suffer from a lack of data; they suffer when data can’t be translated into timely, accountable action. Clinical, registry, and operational information often sits in different systems ...

US nonprofit hospitals are required by law to have a charity care policy, but hospitals have significant discretion in determining specific eligibility criteria. Using a novel national database, this ...

Options abound for hospitals looking to capitalize on these new data transfer technologies, but so do potential pitfalls. For ...