More than half of rural hospitals had positive margins in 2023, but financial challenges still cause many to close service lines or their operations entirely, KFF Health News found. KFF Health News ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln is piloting a “hotspotting” program to connect patients with opioid use disorder to ongoing addiction care after emergency department visits. Through the care model, ...

Measles cases in the U.S. have already more than doubled 2024’s total — and the true number may be even higher, a CDC expert warned, according to NBC News. Four updates: 1. The CDC has confirmed 712 ...

Overwhelmed by patient loads and work, some rural physicians are turning to concierge models to find balance, KFF Health News reported April 16. Concierge medicine models see physicians cap their ...

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care has developed AI to message patients with test results and answer billing questions. After becoming an early adopter of an Epic and Microsoft program to ...

The Leapfrog Group has created a learning collaborative program to provide resources and guidance to hospitals that serve a disproportionately high share of low-income and uninsured patients. Four not ...

The IT unemployment rate fell to 5% in March, though the overall IT job market shrunk, IT consulting firm Janco Associates reported. IT unemployment dropped from a high of 5.7% in January, while ...

Remote patient monitoring at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine has led to a $12 million return on investment from avoided hospitalizations, a new study found. Hospitalizations fell by 59% in the six ...

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has added oncology care to its Home Hospital program. Mass General Birgham’s Home Hospital program aims to “alleviate the capacity crisis” within acute ...

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed nine executive orders April 15 that will implement Medicaid eligibility reforms, initiate nutrition studies related to chronic disease, and make changes to SNAP benefits ...

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health has named Carey Roach vice president of mid-revenue cycle, according to a post on her LinkedIn page. Ms. Roach joins Trinity from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, ...

The number of times a patient’s address changes in the electronic health record is associated with homelessness and diagnoses, a Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine study found. The study, published ...