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…
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…
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…
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 Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital were named the top three hospitals in the world in 2022 by Newsweek. For its fourth annual ranking, the magazine, in collaboration…
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 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…
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…
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…
The Dolbey Fusion CAC computer-assisted coding solution has been ranked Best in KLAS for the sixth year in a row. Dolbey’s Fusion CAC is utilized by hospitals and health systems to streamline the entire revenue cycle process. Fusion CAC uses…
