Healthcare Innovation

Healthcare Innovation, which was previously known as Healthcare Informatics, has been dedicated to its audience since 1981. This prominent publication plays a crucial role in the evolution of the U.S. healthcare sector, advocating for a shift from volume-based care to value-based care. As healthcare buyers and payers increasingly require providers to enhance patient outcomes while managing expenses, Healthcare Innovation stands as a trusted source. It provides senior leaders from hospitals, medical groups, and health systems with essential news, detailed features, insightful articles, and comprehensive analysis on various topics, including policy, payment, operations, and strategic information technology challenges they encounter.

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The Peterson Health Technology Institute’s Read of This Moment in AI Development

1 week ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | Mark Hagland

Among other findings, the report’s authors noted that, “In part, health systems are open to adopting AI-enabled administrative solutions because of the hype surrounding AI in general, but also because these solutions are being positioned to address major and seemingly intractable health system challenges, from financial pressures to workforce shortages.
BREAKING NOW: Report: Trump White House to Drastically Slash HHS Budget

1 week ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | Mark Hagland

According to the Post report, President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget will send to Congress envisions paring the 2024 HHS discretionary budget of $121 billion to just $80 billion, while reorganizing a number of departments and agencies. According to the draft document that the Post reporters have examined, they reported Wednesday evening that “The proposal would reduce the more than $47 billion budget of the NIH to $27 billion — a roughly 40 percent cut.
Mass General Brigham Leaders React to Trump White House Threats Against Harvard

1 week ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | Mark Hagland

A dispute between the Trump administration and Harvard University could potentially impact Mass General Brigham health system, which is the health system affiliated with the university.
RadNet Buying Breast Health Solutions Company iCAD

1 week ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | David Raths

RadNet Inc. (NASDAQ: RDNT), a diagnostic imaging services and digital health solutions company, is acquiring iCAD Inc. (NASDAQ: ICAD), a provider of AI-powered breast health solutions for approximately $103 million. Los Angeles-based RadNet has a network of 398 owned and/or operated outpatient imaging centers. Its markets include Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Texas.
Kidney Dialysis Provider DaVita Hit by Ransomware Attack

1 week ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | Pietje Kobus

On April 14, Denver-based kidney dialysis provider DaVita disclosed that it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The company stated that it first noticed the breach on April 12. “Upon discovery, we activated our response protocols and implemented containment measures, including proactively isolating impacted systems.
NCQA Urges Expedited Adoption of Digital Quality Measures

2 weeks ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | David Raths

A set of policy recommendations from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) stresses the importance of building a strong digital health infrastructure that facilitates seamless exchange, promotes adoption of digital quality measures and maximizes the full potential of interoperable healthcare data via FHIR API implementations. NCQA is a nonprofit, independent organization that works to improve healthcare quality through measurement, transparency and accountability.
Risant Health Fills Out Its Value-Based Care Team

2 weeks ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | David Raths

Risant Health, a nonprofit organization created by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in 2023 and dedicated to increasing access to value-based care, has filled out its leadership ranks, naming Jessica Bartell, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., its chief medical information officer. Also Deepak Sadagopan has joined Risant as business lead, value-based platform.
APG Report Calls for Major Reforms to Medicare, Medicare Advantage

2 weeks ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | David Raths

America’s Physician Groups (APG) has issued a report with detailed recommendations for reform suggestions for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, including moving fully in the direction of accountable care in traditional Medicare and incentivizing two-sided risk payment arrangements between Medicare Advantage plans and physician groups. APG’s approximately 360 physician groups comprise 170,000 physicians, as well as thousands of other clinicians.
Keeping Up with Revenue Cycle Management Optimization

2 weeks ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | Pietje Kobus

Given the lower margins and higher operating costs, health systems need to focus on managing payor relationships and optimizing payables. As the saying goes, you can't afford to leave money on the table. Joe Kight, head of healthcare with U.S. Bank, shared his perspectives with Healthcare Innovation on where healthcare systems are with revenue cycle management optimization. Kight runs the healthcare team within the bank’s Institutional Client Group.
HHS Mass Layoffs Condemned by Democrats, Consumer Groups, Clinicians

2 weeks ago | hcinnovationgroup.com | Mark Hagland

A wide range of groups is lodging protests against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mass firings of more than 10,000 HHS staffers, which began on Friday. House Democrats, consumer groups, and clinician groups are all condemning the move. Democratic members of Congress erupted on Tuesday, April 1, over the mass layoffs ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.