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Report: Hospitals add $23.6 billion to N.J. economy
New Jersey hospitals contributed $23.6 billion and more than 150,000 jobs to the state economy in 2017, according to the latest report by the New Jersey Hospital Association.
Virginia hospitals report on community benefit
Virginia hospitals and health systems provided nearly $3.3 billion in community benefit and other support in 2017, according to the latest annual report by the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association.
AHA recommends certain changes to Medicaid/CHIP managed care rule
AHA said it generally supports CMS’ efforts to grant greater state-level flexibility and reduce regulatory burden, but urged the agency to ensure Medicaid enrollees have timely access to quality care services.
CVS Health, Others Make News at J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference
CVS Health is rapidly incorporating Aetna into its business and will open the first in a series of concept stores in February in the Houston market to test its consumer-centric retail engagement model that can target Aetna’s members. Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health unveiled a second $150 million health care venture fund. And health care providers shared cost-cutting strategies as they try to improve the affordability of health care.
AHA Environmental Scan: These 5 Technologies Could Transform Society
Many emerging technologies are showing promise in the quest to find innovative solutions to improve care and reduce costs, but health care executives remain cautious about adoption due to lack of capital and fear of creating unintended operational burdens. This is just one of the many insights you’ll learn when you download the AHA’s 2019 Environmental Scan.
Fulfilling Digital Health's Promise
Digital health startup companies attracted a record $8 billion-plus in investments in 2018, reports Rock Health, a U.S. venture fund dedicated to the sector. That represents a 42 percent increase over 2017. Globally, digital health funding totaled $14.6 billion — 14 times what it was in 2010, according to StartUp Health, a company that invests in what it calls “health transformers.”
Michelle Niermann named CEO of UnityPoint Health – Cedar Rapids
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Decatur County Hospital names CEO, and UNC Lenoir Health Care taps new CEO to begin in March.
AHA Releases New Report that Shows Continued Rising Drug Prices and Drug Shortages are Disrupting Patient Care, Hospital Budgets
Continued rising drug prices, as well as shortages for many critical medications, are disrupting patient care and forcing hospitals to delay infrastructure and staffing investments and identify alternative therapies.
Jan. 16 webinar examines emerging trends in disruptive innovation
The AHA's Center for Health Innovation Jan. 16 at 1 p.m. ET will host a webinar for hospital and health system leaders to make sense of the various types of disruption occurring within the health care ecosystem and the forces driving this disruption.
GAO reports on approaches, challenges to EHR patient record matching
The Government Accountability Office today released a congressionally-mandated report examining approaches and challenges to matching patients to their electronic health records, and efforts to improve patient record matching.