Acute Care
Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick explains how her daughter Charity received a second lung transplant in 2011 to allow her to continue performing.
Aidin CEO Russell Graney, and Marcia Colone, with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will speak at HIMSS22.
This is far less than the $25 billion distribution requested by the American Hospital Association.
Mayo Clinic is able to send kidney and marrow transplant patients home to recover to a hospital level of care, says Medically Home CEO Rami Karjian.
The Nashville-based health system has invested approximately $6.6 billion over the last five years, including other expansions currently in progress.
The AHA is also urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports of anticompetitive pricing by nurse-staffing agencies.
Independent physician groups, which include telehealth docs, must now accept a rate that someone else has negotiated, expert says.
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has risen nearly 50% in the past week, according to Reuters data.
The ratio of hospitalizations per number of new cases might show a less severe form of the virus, says Dr. Anthony Fauci.
HIMSS21
Deanna Parker of Baptist Health Hardin saw her ER transform itself to respond to the pandemic.