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In addition to elevating care quality, the organizations expect the move to boost the hospital and local economy.

The total marks a nearly 50% increase in community benefit spending from 2017 to 2022.

The Health AI Partnership extends the work Duke has been doing internally building best practices, says Dr. Mark Sendak, population health & data science lead at the Duke Institute for Health Innovation.

Threat actors used a number of methods to gain access to Salesforce, a CRM app commonly used by hospitals and health systems.

Reliance on the “big three” PBMs – CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx – has been slipping over the past year.

Technology integrates the patient history, admissions and parental information of the estimated 20% of children in the United States who have special healthcare needs, says Imagine President Kari O'Rourke.

The group says an “unchecked” model would undermine the goal of allowing safety net providers to stretch federal resources.

Kaiser Permanente Nevada will offer health plans in northern Nevada starting with open enrollment in 2026.

Getting the buy-in from clinicians, the "people-ware," should be the first step when launching EHR implementation, says Dr. David K. Butler, an Epic Emeritus CMIO who also serves as clinical informatics leader at Calyx Partners.

The health system cites staffing shortages and smaller patient volumes for the consolidation.