HCA Healthcare, the largest for-profit hospital operator in the United States and the first to report quarterly earnings, cited impact from the COVID-19 pandemic and high inflation for its disappointing annual profit forecast.
New programs like Hospital-at-Home and Acute-Care-at-Home are giving health systems an opportunity to reduce inpatient traffic and give patients the care they need in their own homes.
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Recent CMS and CDC rulings offer hope that health systems will show more love for innovative treatments like digital therapeutics and virtual platforms.
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The Rhode Island School of Design's Center for Complexity has developed a new tool that helps non-English patients accurately describe their pain for emergency care providers.
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