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Reimbursement
COVID-19 pandemic driving steep volume and revenue declines as margins suffer
Pandemic drives steep volume, revenue declines in April
Revenue Cycle Management
Hospitals begin road to recovery
Hospitals begin road to recovery
Strategic Planning
What hospitals and health systems can do to recover financially from COVID-19
COVID-19: How hospitals can recover
Capital Finance
Healthcare real estate remains attractive to investors despite COVID-19 pandemic
Healthcare real estate remains attractive to investors
Supply Chain
Advocate Aurora Health partners with Premier to ramp up domestic PPE production
Advocate Aurora, Premier partner on PPE
Accounting & Financial Management
HIMSSCast: The financial toll of COVID-19 for health systems
HIMSSCast: The financial toll of COVID-19
Budgeting
A dynamic healthcare budget process may trump traditional budgeting in terms of accuracy, flexibility
Benefits of a dynamic budgeting process
Quality and Safety
Cleveland Clinic teams with United Airlines on cleanliness standards
Cleveland Clinic teams with United Airlines on cleanliness standards
Billing and Collections
Blue Shield of California is offering providers up to $200 million during COVID-19 crisis
Blue Shield of California offers providers $200M
Claims Processing
Humana is expediting claims processing and prior authorization during COVID-19 pandemic
Humana is expediting claims and prior authorization
Workforce
Primary care physicians pushed to breaking point as more than half report no payments
Half of PCPs report no payments, high stress
Operations
CareMount Medical uses telehealth now to avoid health crisis later
CareMount Medical uses telehealth now to avoid health crisis later
Medical Devices
New standards will help advance medical device connectivity
New standards will help advance medical device connectivity
Hospital/physician relations
Quality of initial training makes a big difference in EHR satisfaction, KLAS report finds
Poor EHR training brings down provider satisfaction
Construction & Facilities Management
Kaiser Permanente cancels plans for $900 million headquarters in Oakland
Kaiser Permanente cancels $900M headquarters
Compliance & Legal
Court hears oral arguments in price transparency lawsuit
Court hears oral arguments in price transparency lawsuit
Policy and Legislation
The future of APIs first depends on building value for patient access
The future of APIs starts with building value for patient access
Community Benefit
Cigna, New York Life create fund for grieving families
Cigna, New York Life create fund for grieving families
Accountable Care
HIMSSCast: How COVID-19 has accelerated healthcare trends, with MoneyBall Medicine's Harry Glorikian
HIMSSCast: How COVID-19 has accelerated healthcare trends
Acute Care
Stroke evaluations drop by nearly 40% during COVID-19 pandemic
Stroke evaluations drop 40% during pandemic
Ambulatory Care
Medical schools, teaching hospitals account for 3% of US GDP, report shows
Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP
Analytics
Deciding what to measure can make all the difference in patient experience, outcomes
Deciding what to measure can improve outcomes
Business Intelligence
While the price of healthcare is growing, utilization is dropping and price variations persist, report says
HCCI: Price of healthcare is growing, utilization is dropping, price variations persist
ICD-10 & Coding
Physician practices examine risk adjustment coding in wake of federal lawsuits
Practices keeping close watch on risk adjustment coding
Meaningful Use
CMS overhauls meaningful use EHR program, renames it 'Promoting Interoperability'
CMS overhauls meaningful use as 'Promoting Interoperability'
Medicare & Medicaid
CMS announces pharma partnership to cap insulin copay at $35
CMS announces pharma partnership for $35 insulin copay
Patient Engagement
Most consumers have changed healthcare usage since COVID-19 pandemic, survey shows
COVID-19: Consumers are changing healthcare usage
Pharmacy
HHS expands U.S.-based pharmaceutical manufacturing to get drugs to hospitals faster
HHS expands U.S-based pharmaceutical manufacturing
Population Health
With more children showing severe COVID-19 symptoms, pediatricians outline critical steps
Critical steps for children with COVID-19
Risk Management
Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms
Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms
Telehealth
In final rule, CMS makes telehealth more widely available in Medicare Advantage plans
CMS makes telehealth more widely available in MA plans
Mergers & Acquisitions
Four Chicago hospitals call off merger due to lack of state help, with service cuts predicted
4 Chicago hospitals call off merger plans
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

May 26 | Jeff Lagasse
Healthcare real estate remains attractive to investors despite COVID-19 pandemic
Rent deferments will help some hospitals in the short term while the interest will make real estate companies…
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May 15 | Susan Morse
Operation Warp Speed gains two leaders in effort to accelerate vaccine development
The public and private partnership includes the Department of Defense to enable faster distribution.
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May 15 | Jeff Lagasse
Further evidence does not support hydroxychloroquine for patients with COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine can reduce inflammation, pain and swelling, but mild to moderate COVID patients showed more…
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May 11 |
Telehealth is driving a boom in digital communications
Recent data breaches in digital health platforms have raised awareness for privacy protection and questions over who is responsible.
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May 09 | Susan Morse
HHS is distributing the experimental antiviral remdesivir to hospitals hardest hit by COVID-19
Gilead Sciences committed to supplying approximately 607,000 vials over the next six weeks to…
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May 08 | Jeff Lagasse
Repurposing existing drugs for COVID-19 offers a more rapid alternative to a vaccine
One promising candidate is remdesivir, a drug originally developed for Ebola, which the FDA has approved…
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May 05 | Jeff Lagasse
Drug shortage management strategies are needed during COVID-19 pandemic
Leveraging regulatory allowances and establishing sound analytic capabilities can help ensure patients continue…
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Apr 30 | Jeff Lagasse
CMS issues second round of changes to support health system during COVID-19 pandemic
The agency's goal is to ensure states and localities have the flexibility they need to ramp up…
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Apr 24 | Susan Morse
UnitedHealth Group collaborates to deploy 3,000 emergency ventilators
The ventilators allow "patients who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to survive, to survive," says…
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Apr 24 | Jeff Lagasse
The most promising strategies for defeating coronavirus are vaccines and antivirals, review shows
Gene therapy delivered through the adeno-associated virus is likely the most attractive…
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