By Jim Szyperski – Despite growing attention to mental health, inpatient psychiatric care remains a neglected and the least digitized sector of healthcare. While hospitals have made enormous strides in optimizing emergency departments, operating rooms, and ICUs with real-time data, the same cannot be said for behavioral health units.
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By James Bouchard – We joined a group of leading healthcare supply chain executives to discuss the current state of U.S. tariffs and their impact on the healthcare sector. What followed was a candid and insightful exchange on how health systems are responding to a rapidly evolving and often ambiguous trade environment. Here’s what I learned:
By Arthur Allen – The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology, and was just one of more than 200 such efforts.
By Abe Sutton – We stand at a defining crossroads in American health care with an unprecedented opportunity to protect taxpayer dollars and fundamentally reshape how we approach health and wellness by embracing preventive care.
By Matt Fisher – The steady stream of settlements from the Office for Civil Rights continues. The underpinning to many of the recent settlements is notification following the occurrence of a data breach, often from some form of a cyber attack.
By Christine Gall DrPH MS BSN RN – As challenges like nursing shortages and increasing patient acuity become more prevalent, innovation provides an opportunity for nursing leaders to improve patient care and operational efficiency.
By Devin Partida – Optimizing Health Savings Account (HSA) utilization helps patients afford care, lightens the billing department’s workload and saves hospitals money. IT professionals can improve usage by making the experience as frictionless as possible. Even simple changes can have a substantial impact.
By Rich Keller – As the global population ages, the preference to remain in one’s own home rather than transition to institutional care (aging in place) has become increasingly prevalent. Most older Americans want to stay at home as they age; and increasingly, they are.
By Stephanie Armour – But even as he extols MAHA, Trump has unleashed a slew of policies likely to make Americans less healthy. He’s slashing 20,000 full time positions from HHS and cutting more than $4 billion in indirect costs related to health research grants, including studies into treatment for Alzheimer’s and cancer.