While volume and revenues plummeted to historic levels, expenses remained nearly flat, putting pressure on hospitals as the coronavirus spreads.

Phases 2 and 3 of vaccine clinical trials are expected by early summer and their success will be known by early winter, Fauci says.

Setting targets, focusing communication and getting buy-in from the entire organization will be necessary to succeed.

Rent deferments will help some hospitals in the short term while the interest will make real estate companies whole by year's end.

The organizations acquired a minority stake in Prestige Ameritech, the largest domestic manufacturer of face masks.

With Christopher Kerns, Advisory Board's vice president for Executive Insights.

With a labor-intensive budgeting process that provided little business value, OSF Healthcare decided it was time to be more flexible.

Both the airline and the hospital system need to develop trust to be able to say, "It's safe to come back."

Nonprofit insurer is working with two financial-services partners to provide financing guarantees, advance payments and restructuring of contracts.

Prior authorization requirements have hindered freeing up hospital beds due to delays in getting inpatients to post-acute care.

As many as 13% predict closure within the next month, and 20% have already had temporary closures, the survey found.

Patients were cancelling their non-COVID-19 appointments to avoid the virus. The medical group went from six to 1,500 daily telehealth visits to tend to regular care needs.

Better interoperability between devices could result in the "silent ICU" in which alarms are not constantly going off by a patient's bed.

The research shows significant variability in EHR satisfaction among specialties, but high-quality training can help.

The decision is unrelated to the current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Kaiser says.

Providers need time to prepare to implement the final rule, scheduled to go in effect Jan. 1, 2021, at a time when they are facing the coronavirus pandemic and its resulting financial issues.

Patients want access to everything, according to focus groups interviewed by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

The Brave Heart Fund is starting with seed funds of $25 million with the goal to raise at least $100 million.

An interview with MoneyBall Medicine author and investor Harry Glorikian.

Some stroke patients may fear contracting the coronavirus, while others who are isolated may not be discovered quickly enough.

The institutions that were studied added more than $562 billion in value to the nation's economy in 2017, including direct and indirect economic impact.

Pointing data-gathering efforts in the right direction holds the potential to deliver better value-based care.

Report analyzed more than 1.8 billion commercial healthcare claims and data visualization to benchmark prices and use across 112 metropolitan areas from 2012 to 2016.

Doctors need to carefully and properly use the HCC codes, which indicate the expected costs for a patient.

Administrator Seema Verma said changes to the program eliminate 25 measures and saves hospitals over 2 million hours of work and $75 million.

Some of the telehealth provisions extended on a temporary basis will be made permanent, CMS Administrator Seema Verma says.

From delaying care to avoiding urgent care and walk-in clinics, consumer behavior is changing as the pandemic continues.

Government and Phlow Corp. are developing a prioritized list of active pharmaceutical ingredients and medicines critically needed by health systems.

Reports of severe illness among children are mounting, requiring more urgent research into susceptibility and possible treatments.

IT security is a legacy word, says Brian Selfridge: "This isn't cybersecurity, this is risk."

CMS said it wanted to finalize some proposed policies before the MA and Part D bid deadlines on June 1 for the 2021 plan year.

A lack of funding from the state means the four South Side hospitals will come up short in their plans to establish a new health system.