A proposed five-year extension of the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) waiver has passed the House and is headed to the Senate, while the DEA has indicated it will extend a waiver allowing for virtual prescribing of controlled medications.
Houston Methodist is mapping out healthcare transformation over the next three years. Here are the most innovative technologies and strategies on that roadmap.
UPMC and Northwell Health are launching enterprise-wide ambient AI tools while also consolidating their EHRs on one platform. Executives share how they’re managing both projects at the same time.
The news comes as CMS reaffirms reimbursement during the shutdown and reverses a much-criticized policy on listing the provider's home as a telehealth site.
With its final 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the agency is making it a little easier for healthcare organizations to develop and sustain remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs.
As the new Chief Medical Information Officer at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, Keith Morse has to make sure now tools prove themselves immediately, because clinicians don't have the time to get used to something.
In ending the federal shutdown, Congress has extended telehealth and Hospital at Home waivers until the end of January 2026. For some providers, it’s difficult to celebrate.
CMS is expanding coverage for remote patient monitoring in its 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, while a major payer is scaling back reimbursement to two specific use cases.
Healthcare leaders are moving away from complex Hospital at Home programs and looking for sustainability in ambulatory care models. A recent survey backs up the claim that they weren’t finding the ROI they wanted.
The CMS model may be gone, but healthcare leaders are seeing value in other care programs that involve less heavy lifting and offer better reimbursement.
Mark Shaver is the inaugural CSO for the University of Maryland Medical System. He's coming into the role with a plan for making healthcare collaborative and community-driven.
As AI becomes more firmly embedded in clinical care, some healthcare leaders are worried it will affect critical thinking. That’s why some executives are developing tools that focus on giving clinicians support, but not thinking for them.
As health systems like Mercy look to use ambient AI t in inpatient settings, they're finding that nurses have a different way of delivering care – and talking about it.
The 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule boosts virtual care in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, but complicates reimbursement for providers using telehealth from alternate sites, like their homes.
Bon Secours Mercy Health is using a new tech platform to make its patient transfers in the Toledo area more efficient. Maverick and Goose would approve.
Bon Secours Mercy Health is using a new tech platform to make its patient transfers in the Toledo area more efficient. Maverick and Goose would approve.
A new study finds that executives are targeting virtual care and RPM as key strategies over the next couple years to improve patient engagement, but the technologies they’re using now aren’t sustainable.
Being part of the Epic empire may help, but Dayton Children’s Hospital CIO J.D. Whitlock says they still have to think very carefully about what tools to embrace.