The UK wants to build ‘digital hospitals’. What does this mean?
It is the “biggest hospital building programme in a generation,” the UK government claims. Unveiled in 2019, the Health Infrastructure...
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More than 60 health systems and hospitals sign climate change pledge
Photo: Knaupe/Getty Images More than 60 health leaders have joined a Biden Administration initiative in pledging to reduce greenhouse gas...
Two Georgia hospitals fined for noncompliance with price transparency rules
Photo: CasarsaGuru/Getty Images Two hospitals in Georgia, both part of the Northside health system, have become the first facilities to...
Employers, insurers paid hospitals more than double Medicare rates, finds RAND
Photo: Sam Edwards/Getty Images Employers and health insurers paid hospitals about 224% above what Medicare would have paid in 2020,...
Hospitals can change their models of care to meet the worsening nursing shortage
Photo: ER Productions Limited/Getty Images There's been a nursing shortage in the U.S. for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has...
Provider group hit with False Claims Act allegations; hospitals to see 3.2% increase in payment rates
This week's top stories include Physician Partners of America agreeing to pay $24.5M to settle a number of alleged violations,...
Hospitals receive a proposed 3.2% payment increase in 2023
Photo: Peter Griffith/Getty Images General acute care hospitals are projected to get a 3.2% increase in operating payment rates under...
Eight hospitals rebranding under Trinity Health banner
Photo: John Fedele/Getty Images Trinity Health Michigan, based in Livonia, will be rebranding eight hospitals and hundreds of care sites...
Coalition of hospitals, health plans and others urge for stronger guidance around third-party apps
Photo: Westend61/Getty Images The Confidentiality Coalition and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has sent a letter to the secretaries...
Hospitals see job gains after two months of losses
Photo: John Fedele/Getty Images After a rough end to 2021 in terms of job losses, healthcare appears to be on...
