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By Kat Jercich for Healthcare IT News Sepsis, the body’s damaging over-response to an infection, affects at least 1.7 million adults in the United States every year. Early treatment is key to staying ahead of the condition, which can be life-threatening. But sometimes the clinical signs can be hard to spot – making artificial intelligence tools particularly…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance News After a rough end to 2021 in terms of job losses, healthcare appears to be on the rebound – for now. The latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed hospitals gaining jobs in January, though the industry is still below the levels seen before…
By Laura Dyrda for Becker’s Hospital Review Physicians are essential to the healthcare system. They treat patients, perform surgery, write prescriptions and conduct research advancing the field. But their opinions carry less weight on Capitol Hill than in the operating room. Health policy is shaped by legislators and influenced by lobbyists representing drug companies, medtech,…
By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News The healthcare industry is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic into a world that demands health equity. In times of major transition – enabled by the onset of leapfrogging technologies and/or seismic shifts in culture – information is vital to re-establish and reinvent best practices. But data alone does…
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 the FDA to treat patients who are at high risk for progression to severe…
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 acquiring COVID-19 during a hospital stay are low, with only about 1.8% of patients contracting…
By Kat Jercich ofr Healthcare IT News A recent article in Health Affairs called the electronic health record an “underrated medium” for improving care and pushed for the standardization of structures for documenting disabilities. “In medical school, we spend a lot of time learning how to take a patient’s medical history. We practice asking specifically worded questions…
By Susan Morse for Healthcare Finance News Healthgrades has released its list of the 250, 100 and 50 best hospitals for clinical excellence. The list of 250 represents the top 5% in the nation for 2022. When culled down to lists of the top 100 and top 50, these hospitals represent the top 2% and 1%, respectively, of hospitals nationwide. The top…
By Sarah Sarvis Milla, M.D., FAAP, and Hansel J. Otero, M.D., FAAP for AAP News Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword in many health care environments and even more so in technology-reliant subspecialties such as radiology. Most radiology departments already deploy complex software to manage increasingly large databases and a completely digital workflow. While…
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 as they claimed, according to The New York Times. In the same year, U.S. agencies seized 21.2…