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By Hailey Mensick for Healthcare Dive Health systems, facing steep shortfalls after their most lucrative business lines ground to a halt in March when the COVID-19 pandemic intensified in the U.S., are turning to the task of convincing patients it’s safe to come back. Surveys show people are not in a hurry to return. The…
By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review The average amount of revenue physicians generate for hospitals has jumped significantly in recent years, and a decline in patient volumes and elective procedures due to the COVID-19 pandemic is putting hospitals and physicians in a fragile financial position. Independent and employed physicians generate an average of about…
Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review The Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule released May 11 calls for 47 diagnosis codes to be revised for 2021. Here are the 47 diagnoses CMS wants to revise codes for: View a full list of the revised diagnosis codes in Table 6E. If approved, changes would take effect Oct. 1. D57.411,…
By Kat Jerich for Healthcare IT News Researchers from New York-based Mount Sinai Health System have combined artificial intelligence, imaging and clinical data to rapidly detect COVID-19 in patients. In a study published this week in Nature Medicine, researchers used AI algorithms in conjunction with chest CT scans and patient history to quickly diagnose patients who…
Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review Hospitals and health systems are the largest employers in 17 U.S. states, according to an analysis by 24/7 Wall Street, which runs a financial news and opinion company. For the analysis, 24/7 Wall Street examined the most recent employment counts for nonprofits and private and publicly held companies from company news…
By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog As of late April 2020 (roughly five months since the outbreak of the pandemic), there have been nearly a million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 55,000 deaths, resulting in a fatality rate of approximately 5.6%. Current studies, however, suggest that the…
Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News Macon Community Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital in rural Tennessee that was seeking to implement a Cerner electronic health record. THE PROBLEM Knowing the intense challenges rural hospitals across the country are facing with COVID-19, staff wanted to experience the benefits of a fully integrated digital system…
Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review Boise, Idaho, and Denver are among the U.S. cities with the best potential for recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, while Detroit and Los Angeles are among the cities that will struggle the most to recover, a new analysis shows, according to Forbes. The analysis, from Moody’s Analytics, considered…
By Mark Wilson for Fast Company As the U.S. healthcare system has been battling shortages of surgical masks, N95 respirators, and face shields, one lingering question has remained: Does all this PPE actually prevent someone from contracting COVID-19? Especially someone who is tasked with caring for COVID-19 patients day after day during long shifts in…