By Jackie Mattingly & Lance Alston – Rural hospitals are not trying to do something unique with cybersecurity. They are trying to keep care available in their communities. They are trying to protect patients. They are trying to meet rising expectations with limited staff, limited funding, and little room for operational disruption.
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By Matt Seefeld – Behind staffing shortages and reimbursement pressure lies another challenge: complex billing workflows that force small teams to spend valuable time chasing payment instead of delivering care.
CMS recognizes several distinct hospital types, each defined by federal law and specific Medicare Conditions of Participation. Here are the breakdowns and resources for the major hospital categories.
Securing Medical Devices and IoT: Safeguarding the Digital Edge, a session at this year’s CHIME Fall Forum with Ismelda Garza, CIO, Cuero Regional Health Care and Ravi Monga, Healthcare CISO, Zscaler; former CISO at St. Luke’s and Children’s Mercy.
By Pete Heydt – When half of rural hospitals are operating in the red and 418 are vulnerable to closure, the data alone are a call to action for new approaches to capturing revenue. Turning up the focus on patient financial engagement in ways that meet consumers where they are is one essential step.
HRSA announced nearly $75 million to support health care services in rural America. Funding will launch new opioid treatment and recovery services in rural communities, strengthen maternal health care in the South, and help rural hospitals stay open.
By Donald Voltz MD & Eric Tran – The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the infamous Spanish Flu of the early 1900s, inflicting immense devastation as the U.S. loses more than 200,000 lives and counting.
By Sarah Jane Tribble – Jerome Antone said he is one of the lucky ones. After becoming ill with COVID-19, Antone was hospitalized only 65 miles away from his small Alabama town. He is the mayor of Georgiana — population 1,700. “It hit our rural community so rabid,” Antone said. The town’s hospital closed last year.
By Markian Hawryluk – Kristie Flowers had been sick with the flu for four or five days in July before the 52-year-old registered nurse from Genoa, Colo., acknowledged she needed to go to the ER.