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Providers to target efficiency, supply chain resilience in 2025
Health systems will work to expand their supply chains and ink nontraditional partnerships in 2025, while trimming excessive AI programs and nonclinical staff.
Susanna Vogel • Jan. 22, 2025 -
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Top healthcare technology trends in 2025
The shape of AI regulation will be uncertain under the Trump administration this year, while healthcare companies will continue bolstering cyber defenses to withstand increasing attacks, experts say.
Emily Olsen • Jan. 15, 2025 -
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Health insurers will step off the roller coaster in 2025
After a turbulent year, things should calm for payers with the advent of a business-friendly Trump administration — though challenges will persist. Here are experts’ biggest predictions for 2025.
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Jan. 8, 2025 -
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States curb CON laws to boost bed capacity
The COVID-19 pandemic and population growth have led many states to scale back or eliminate Certificate of Need laws, which require providers to get regulatory approval before expanding or adding healthcare facilities.
Michael Brady • Jan. 3, 2025 -
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AI could be a game changer, but healthcare needs to be ‘exceedingly careful’
Artificial intelligence tools could help solve workforce challenges. Implementation, however, can be difficult, pushing organizations to consider less risky administrative and back-office tasks first.
Emily Olsen • Oct. 28, 2024 -
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5 steps to navigate the FDA’s new lab developed test rule
Laboratories face a series of upcoming deadlines to comply with stricter FDA oversight of in-house tests. Here are five strategies labs can take to be ready.
Susan Kelly • Oct. 28, 2024 -
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Tech companies pitch AI platforms for healthcare, outline plans for responsible rollout
Google, Microsoft and GE Healthcare say they’ll power the next wave of AI advancement. But executives are split on how to offer the tools to providers responsibly — and whether all clinicians are equally ready for them.
Susanna Vogel • Oct. 28, 2024 -
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The number of AI medical devices has spiked in the past decade
The FDA has authorized nearly 1,000 medical devices with artificial intelligence features as companies including GE Healthcare and Siemens Healthineers build out their AI efforts.
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4 steps to minimize the threat of legacy medical devices
Older medical devices with unsupported software pose cybersecurity threats that regulators and industry are struggling to solve. Here are four steps experts say can help mitigate risks.
Ricky Zipp • Sept. 23, 2024 -
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Medicaid overtakes Medicare Advantage as health insurers’ bogeyman in Q2
Despite challenges in Medicaid and MA, major insurers still posted large earnings in the second quarter — many helped by health services divisions.
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Aug. 15, 2024 -
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FDA’s lab developed test rule could be first check on agency’s power post-Chevron
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine would make it easier to challenge agency regulations, such as the LDT final rule.
Susan Kelly and Elise Reuter • July 11, 2024 -
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Humana and CVS are downsizing their Medicare Advantage plans for 2025. Which insurers could benefit?
Hundreds of thousands of seniors could switch plans during next year’s open enrollment, depending on how drastically the MA market giants slash benefits in an attempt to improve profits.
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Updated June 10, 2024 -
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Medicare Advantage unrest, Change Healthcare fallout and more big takeaways from insurers’ Q1
All major payers saw elevated utilization but only an unprepared few struggled with the trend, the Change Healthcare cyberattack caused minimal financial fallout and a new D-SNP rule opens the door to a Medicare growth opportunity.
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • May 13, 2024 -
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Antitrust agencies are relying on consumers to report anticompetitive behavior. That trust might be misplaced.
Regulators want consumers to flag business practices harming market health in the healthcare sector, which could result in a tsunami of new tips — for good and ill, according to experts.
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • May 6, 2024 -
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California, Oregon eye universal health coverage
The states' proposals, which resemble Medicare for All, need approval from the federal government and face pushback from major health systems and insurers.
John Canham-Clyne • April 24, 2024 -
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Steward bankruptcy likely as massive debt remains, with few options left
Steward Health Care’s forbearance period ends in less than 15 days. Analysts say this time, creditors are unlikely to extend the embattled company another lifeline.
Susanna Vogel • April 16, 2024 -
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Change cyberattack serves as wake-up call for healthcare cybersecurity
The outage shows why health systems need to plan for inevitable cyberattacks, evaluating risks and putting operational backups in place, experts say.
Emily Olsen • April 4, 2024 -
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‘As fast as possible but no faster than is safe’: Hospitals, tech companies confront AI governance
Regulators seeking to erect guardrails around AI are facing a Sisyphean task, experts said at HIMSS. How do you oversee something that is constantly changing?
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • March 18, 2024 -
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Why Cigna is capping cost increases for pricey GLP-1 weight loss drugs
The move — the first of its kind — comes as pharmacy benefit managers continue to try to prove their value to clients, and shows how major players are shoring up to meet sky-high GLP-1 demand.
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • March 8, 2024 -
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Insurers brace for continued Medicare Advantage medical costs
The big question coming out of the health insurance earnings season is how much elevated utilization among seniors is carrying over into 2024.
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 20, 2024 -
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Trends shaping the business of health insurance in 2024
The uninsured rate will rise. Medicare Advantage enrollment will swell, with less instability. Major pharmacy benefit managers will launch more transparent products. Here’s what industry watchers are expecting in 2024.
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Jan. 16, 2024 -
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Key hospital and provider trends in 2024
As slim operating margins continue to challenge hospitals, experts predict providers will trim unnecessary expenses and focus on strategic labor investments.
Susanna Vogel • Jan. 10, 2024 -
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Healthcare technology trends to watch in 2024
Experts discuss their predictions for healthcare industry trends, including investment and consolidation in digital health, adoption of artificial intelligence and improving cybersecurity in healthcare in 2024.
Emily Olsen • Jan. 8, 2024 -
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A Cigna-Humana merger could face a long regulatory delay. But it might get approved.
As rumors swirl that the two major health insurers are inching toward a merger, experts say antitrust agencies have grounds to block a deal — but may not be successful.
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Dec. 4, 2023 -
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Where are all the nurses? Hospitals, advocates disagree on crisis
Hospitals and nursing unions clash on what’s driving sluggish application rates for open registered nurse positions — a lack of qualified candidates or a lack of interest.
Susanna Vogel • Nov. 21, 2023
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