From AMA CHICAGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced an editorial update to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)®, the nation’s leading medical terminology code set for describing health care procedures and services, that includes eight new codes for the bivalent…
By Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News for NBC News Tiffanie Jones was a few tanks of gas into her drive from Tampa, Florida, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, when she found out her travel nurse contract had been canceled. Jones, who has been…
By Rachel McArthur for Healthcare IT News The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for the global healthcare community to embrace technology to prevent future pandemics. He warned, however, that employing advanced healthcare systems won’t be sustainable…
By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review CMS released its Medicare payment codes for administering an antibody treatment found effective against the COVID-19 omicron variant. The payment codes, effective Feb. 11, are for bebtelovimab. The drug was authorized last week…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Over the pandemic, many patients have avoided going to the hospital unless absolutely necessary, citing fears of contracting COVID-19. But a new study suggests those fears may have been overblown. Rates of…
By Kat Jercich for Healthcare IT News The World Health Organization released a policy brief this past week aimed at combating age-related bias in health-related artificial intelligence tools. The brief, “Ageism in artificial intelligence for health,” proposes a wide range of…
By Gabrielle Masson for Becker’s Hospital Review Demand for N95s, KN95s and KF94s has skyrocketed, and, unfortunately, so have counterfeit masks. In 2020, ECRI reported 60 to 70 percent of KN95s it tested didn’t properly filter 95 percent of particles…
By Hailey Mesnik for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Healthcare and healthcare support roles were highly ranked in U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of best jobs released Tuesday, accounting for nearly four in 10 of the 100 best jobs across all…
Gabrielle Masson for Becker’s Hospital Review The omicron variant accounted for an estimated 95.4 percent of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. for the week ending Jan. 1, according to CDC data. Just the previous week, the variant accounted for an estimated 58.6 percent…
Susan Morse for Healthcare Finance Through the bad – workforce shortages and lost revenue – and the good – the rise of telehealth and Hospital-at-Home models – COVID-19 changed, and will continue to change, the way hospitals and providers strategize their business models…
