STAT

JANUARY 18, 2024

Microsoft on Thursday said it will launch its artificial intelligence tool for automating clinical documentation within health records software made by Epic, a move to embed the technology in health systems nationwide. Epic is the nation’s largest seller of software used to record and analyze patient health records.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Community Health Systems is facing a new federal probe into its hospital billing practices more than four years after the hospital chain settled separate allegations of fraudulent overbilling. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT

JULY 10, 2024

The federal government will not modify regulations that dictate how hospitals publish their prices for consumers, ignoring pleas from patient advocates who have said hospitals still are not fully complying with the 3-year-old law. The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed an annual rule that sets payment rates for hospitals.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2024

Startup Abridge has notched it's largest partnership to date as Kaiser Permanente is making its generative AI tools for medical documentation available to more than 24,000 doctors across its system | Startup Abridge has notched it's largest partnership to date as Kaiser Permanente is making its generative AI tools for medical documentation (..)

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 12, 2022

In trials, the Glucommander algorithm has been shown to reduce severe low blood sugar episodes, shorten hospital stays and prevent hospital re-admissions. The post Roche debuts smart glucose monitor for hospital use appeared first on.

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STAT

JUNE 27, 2025

In a letter sent to the company, the lawmaker maintained that the decision to discontinue its inhaler in January 2024 has since had “life-threatening consequences for patients” and contributed to a spike in hospitalizations.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 22, 2024

Abridge has spent the last six years building generative AI tools to help doctors with medical documentation and is now putting that technology in the hands of hospital nurses. | Abridge has spent the last six years building generative AI tools to help doctors with medical documentation and is now putting that technology in the hands of hospital nurses. (..)

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STAT

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Large hospital systems’ investments rebounded heavily in the final quarter of 2022, according to a new STAT analysis of financial filings. STAT analyzed the financial documents of 37 tax-exempt, not-for-profit health systems covering the last three months of 2022.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 16, 2024

Orlando Health has offered to buy Steward Health Care's three "Space Coast" Florida properties, including three hospitals and a medical practice, for $439 million, according to a court document fil | Orlando Health has offered to buy Steward Health Care's three "Space Coast" Florida properties, including three hospitals (..)

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STAT

MARCH 26, 2024

Troubled hospital operator Steward Health Care, grappling with a financial crisis that’s engulfed its eight Massachusetts hospitals, has moved to shore up its finances by striking a deal to sell its nationwide physician network to insurance giant UnitedHealth’s Optum Care unit.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

AUGUST 7, 2024

Karl-Johan Lindner and Marie Halvarsson, from the pharmacy at Västerås Hospital in Sweden, describe a new approach to improve the categorisation of medication errors that uses the skills of hospital pharmacists to reclassify reported incidents based on a given medication process. One million injections or infusions and 1.7

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STAT

JUNE 9, 2025

Casey was in contact with UnitedHealth Group for that story, and a company spokesperson accidentally sent him an 18-page confidential document that outlined talking points for its annual shareholder meeting, which took place on Monday. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT

APRIL 25, 2024

A series of recent research papers by academic hospitals has revealed significant limitations of large language models (LLMs) in medical settings, undercutting common industry talking points that they will save time and money, and soon liberate clinicians from the drudgery of documentation.

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STAT

JULY 31, 2024

Mount Sinai, a leading hospital network in New York City, has mounted an extraordinary behind-the-scenes campaign to blunt the fallout over revelations about its controversial research project in which brain biopsies are taken from patients undergoing deep brain stimulation, STAT has learned.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 18, 2024

Following a single-hospital pilot, the nonprofit health system will roll out Regard’s tool in a phased approach to all 33 acute-care hospitals in its system across six states in 2024. Building on a successful pilot, Regard, an AI tool that helps clinicians diagnose conditions, is expanding an enterprise partnership with Banner Health.

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STAT

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The move also encapsulates how UnitedHealth is pushing to control every piece of patient care outside of the hospital and distancing itself from the aspects that have generated controversy. However, Optum advised employees that “Home & Community Care should not be directly next to the Optum logo” in marketing materials.

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STAT

MARCH 28, 2023

The idea is gaining ground in hospitals around the country, too, where burned-out doctors are desperate for technologies that can cut down on the hours they spend painstakingly documenting patient visits. Hundreds of health systems around the country are using these tools in hopes the AI can lift them out of the drudgery.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Lately, we’ve seen two distinct lines at our hospitals. Mothers, children, and the disabled clutch passels of documents along the sidewalk. We would all be healthier if we brought the two lines together. The first line forms every morning before the building opens. They wait to reauthorize their Medicaid insurance.

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STAT

MAY 20, 2024

The nonprofits rake in a strong first quarter My colleague Tara Bannow and I are absolute suckers for reading hospital financial statements. Tara sifted through  the data of 20 nonprofit systems , and all but four reported higher operating and net margins in the first three months of 2024, compared with the first three months of 2023.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The woes of the uninsured are well-documented.  Mary Lou Retton, the gold-medal winning Olympic gymnast recently released from the hospital after fighting for her life in the ICU,  doesn’t have health insurance.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

DECEMBER 17, 2024

S erious adverse drug events are unfortunately common in hospitals and can occur across all stages of the medication delivery process. In todays healthcare landscape, hospital pharmacists face a multitude of challenges that impact patient care, including operational inefficiencies, workforce shortages and compromised medication safety.

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STAT

JUNE 25, 2024

The 12-lead electrocardiogram device, called the Kardia 12L ECG System, is a hand-held version of the standard ECG device usually found in hospitals and used to diagnose heart conditions.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The crucial role of hospital pharmacists in addressing challenges and improving access to safe, quality medicines and medical devices has been highlighted in a new reference document from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). This document highlights the importance of access to essential medicines.

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STAT

APRIL 9, 2025

Two decades ago, when I first began practicing emergency medicine, patient documentation was a manual process. I would write on carbon-copy forms that were later stored in the belly of the hospital, in archives, as patient files.

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IDStewardship

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

which has to do with antimicrobial stewardship programs in hospitals. One great thing The Joint Commission includes in their update is element of performance 10 (which is new) and requires hospitals to allocate financial resources for staffing and information technology to support the antibiotic stewardship program.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

New national guidance on repeat prescribing has been published in a bid to improve consistency and patient safety – and supporting hospital discharge with digital solutions and optimising use of the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) forms a key part of this.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JANUARY 23, 2025

Our aim at Hospital Pharmacy Europe , is to support patient care and improve outcomes by sharing inspirational examples of best practice from across the UK and Europe and thats where you come in. And if youre just starting out on the project and would like to document the process with us, let us know!

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STAT

AUGUST 16, 2023

The recent case of a woman who became sick with a life-threatening disease shortly after giving birth shows how many factors had to align to offer clinicians new insights into a rare complication that had never before been documented. A 32-year-old woman was admitted 12 days after giving birth to twins.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 2008, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists published a document outlining the activities that pharmacy services in EDs should provide, which was subsequently updated in 2021. Therefore, they should be included in the hospital’s emergency preparedness plans.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is seeking feedback from hospital pharmacists on its green guide to making professional pharmacy practice more environmentally sustainable. To support the documents, in spring 2024 the RPS will launch a Greener Pharmacy Toolkit, allowing pharmacies to self-accredit their sustainability status.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

APRIL 4, 2023

In this position, she works with patients in the comfort of their homes after being discharged from a hospital setting. The MIH-CP is a patient-centered program that provides a broad range of health services to high-risk patients in the comfort of their homes after they’ve been discharged from the hospital.

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IDStewardship

MARCH 12, 2023

Memorizing 45+ page document is certainly not a reasonable expectation, but one can certainly walk away with an awareness of general concepts and themes which are relevant. Article 5: A Baker’s Dozen of Top Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention Publications for Hospitalized Patients in 2021 Find it here.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The gist of a briefing document published from FDA reviewers ahead of an expert advisory board meeting is that the vaccine is good to go. Hospitals in the UK have already begun immunising high-risk patients after the country’s regulator became the first in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine last week. of participants.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 9, 2024

million shares priced between $20 and $22 each in its upcoming initial public offering, according to documents filed with the Securit | The 30-hospital for-profit health system's said it plans "to acquire complementary businesses, products, services or technologies" with the proceeds from its second attempt at an IPO.

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PharmD Live

JUNE 2, 2025

RPM delivers proven clinical benefits: reducing hospital admissions by 38% and ER visits by 51% , with patient satisfaction exceeding 90%. Proven Track Record: Documented success, strong references, and positive client outcomes. Full-Service Delivery: Education, device supply, and treatment management for every patient.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 26, 2021

A lack of racial diversity in clinical trials is a long-standing, well-documented problem that contributes to the stark health inequalities that have been brought into sharp focus by COVID-19. Tackling it, however, has not been easy, thanks in no small part to the reasons being as complex as they are multi-faceted. Practices and processes.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JUNE 26, 2025

Within the UK, pharmacists generally lead on SACT protocol development and are the authors of these important medicines information documents – with the MDT, clinicians and nurses reviewing the content.’ The term ‘oncology’ used throughout encompasses all cancer including haematology.

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