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U.S. prices of several pre-filled insulin pens and vials will be up to 75% lower starting in January 2024.

Drug companies will pay rebates or face fines for raising prices faster than inflation.

"Today either you disrupt yourself, or you get disrupted," says Ismail, founder and chair of OpenEXO, in previewing his HIMSS23 keynote.  

MGMA and WEDI want the CMS provisions implemented before the current proposed date of January 1, 2026.

The executive director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program, Barbara Rothbaum, talks about how technology and traditional therapy join to help post-911 veterans in this two-week program.  

Higher expenses were driven by labor and pharmaceutical costs.

An upcoming HIMSS23 panel will look at how machine learning can find discharge medication errors. Wendy Paul, medication process architect at Seattle Children's Hospital, and Kyle Longhurst, product manager at Pariveda, explain.

Staffing issues and an ongoing nursing shortage continue to cause challenges for the nation's nursing workforce.

Relying on labor from contract staffing firms contributed to higher overall labor expenses, according to the American Hospital Association.

Fast-growing high deductible plans have changed the billing and patient experience, Cohen says.