Acute Care

Clinical informatics fellow at UI Health and member of the HIMSS Physician Committee Dr. Anwar Jebran discusses the advantages of hospital-at-home in the U.S. and bettering clinical informatics for the MENA region.  

HCA owns land in Austin and Dallas, Texas and Florida, and recently purchased land for new hospitals in Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.

Inbound Health founding COO Julia Crist discusses home health, acute care at home and the end of the PHE.

The status quo of ICU clinical alarm fatigue is untenable for both clinicians and patients, says CalmWave CEO Ophir Ronen.

Christopher Girardo, LSU Health Shreveport and Ochsner Health fellow, clinical informatics/PRN staff, pathology, previews his HIMSS23 dive into health IT's part in combating sepsis.         

While Texas decision eliminated constitutional grounds for coverage it doesn't mean insurers would stop the benefit, says legal expert.

ROI and quality of care are realized through freeing up capacity for new patients and in being able to focus on more complex cases, says Dr. Anobel Odisho, associate professor of Urology at the University of California, San Francisco, who will be speaking at HIMSS23.  

For acute care hospitals, the Medicare Advisory Payment Commission recommends a higher-than-current-law FFS payment update.

Higher expenses were driven by labor and pharmaceutical costs.

Readmission rates for COVID-19 were consistently lower than for patients hospitalized for other reasons.