Home health operators and stakeholders have publicly criticised the proposal for the 2026 calendar year of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) since its June announcement. Currently, stakeholders are submitting official comments as the proposed public comment period for Home Health Regulations is approaching its end. The public comment period ends at the end of Eastern Time on Friday, August 29th. At the time of the publication of this story, over 10,000 comments have been submitted. Critics of the proposed rule say it amounts to a 9% payment cut to the 30-day base payment rate, limiting access to care, hindering home…
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Digital Edition: Scottish health board promotes nurse leader to executive role 27 August, 2025 By Steve Ford NHS Forth Valley has announced the appointment of a new executive-level chief nurse following a competitive recruitment process, which it said attracted a high calibre of senior nursing candidates. This area is reserved. Please register for a trial, or subscribe for full access to continue reading. If you are a subscriber, login here. Welcome! To continue reading either: Access your account Log in to your account to access your content…
Digital Edition: NICE backs life-extending treatment for advanced bladder cancer 27 August, 2025 By Steve Ford NHS patients with advanced urothelial cancer are to be offered a new combination treatment, which trials suggest has survival rates almost twice as long compared to standard treatments. This area is reserved. Please register for a trial, or subscribe for full access to continue reading. If you are a subscriber, login here. Welcome! To continue reading either: Access your account Log in to your account to access your content on Nursing…
In recent years, there has been a critical change in the healthcare industry. More hospitals, clinics, and healthcare providers are beginning to ask important questions: What happens when you place patient outcomes before benefits? This approach focuses on healing people rather than making more money from treatment. This sounds common sense, but financial goals have long shaped many healthcare systems. However, growing movements show that not only can help patients by prioritizing health outcomes, they can also change the entire system.Why results-based care is changing the gameResults-based care means that physicians, hospitals, and care teams focus on treatment outcomes, not…
Fujitsu today announced the development of a safe and efficient AI agent platform to accelerate operational efficiency and ensure stable medical services in the Japanese medical sector. The new platform includes Orchestrator AI Agent, a centralized system that supports collaboration and coordination of multiple professional medical-specific agents developed by Fujitsu and other partners. The initiative aims to contribute to the rapid implementation of world-leading healthcare operation practices, thereby fostering business transformation and improving sustainability in the Japanese healthcare industry. The development of this platform was supported by Nvidia, a global leader in accelerated computing and fundamental AI agent technology.In 2025,…
Do you want to switch jobs soon? There may be fewer options than you think.Healthcare has hired jobs after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, there are still more healthcare job openings than in advance pandemics, but the number of jobs is declining, according to a new report from the job listings and employment platform.A report analyzing job postings for the second quarter ending July 11th found the biggest decline in nursing. Job openings have decreased by 10% from the previous year, but have increased by 15.1% compared to February 1, 2020.This trend is not exclusive to healthcare either.…
The transaction aims to reconstruct the landscape of pharmaceutical services with a new value-driven model. The transaction aims to reconstruct the landscape of pharmaceutical services with a new value-driven model. Global law firm Sidley Austin advises Digital Health Company Waltz Health on a merger with Eversana, an independent provider of global services in the life sciences sector. The merger is set up to combine Waltz Health's digital platform with Eversana's Pharmaceutical and Biotech services to form more opportunities to deliver low-cost medicines. Advising the merger, the Sidley team, based in the company's Chicago office, included M&A partner Gary Gaestman, M&A…
In the first article, we explored how process automation and machine learning can transform oncology. Looking at the effects of agent AI and generated AI, the transformation is exponentially accelerated. In the case of postoperative care, this transformation involves more than a chatbot involved with the patient, collecting data and sending it to the care team. There are currently agents who create personalized experiences. It mimics the surgeon's communication style and interacts with patients through deep conversations that utilize memory and context, as well as a series of one-off responses. The agent said, “What is your temperature? How much has…
For home health providers, improving consumer ratings for healthcare providers and systems (CAHPS) surveys is difficult, with industry response rates ranging from around 25% to 27%, with highly positive and very negative responses often fluctuating. Home health institutions with high employee engagement and retention are more likely to experience high patient and caregiver satisfaction scores sponsored by strategic healthcare programs and the National Alliance for Care At Care, according to a new report from tax, advisory and consulting firm Berrydunn. Importantly, the report found that supervisor training had a positive effect on specific care issues and patient motivation to recommend…
HHCN's Future Conference, held in Dallas from September 15-17, is your chance to learn more about the topics discussed in this article and discover how providers across the country are driving innovation. Click here to learn more and book tickets. Children's Care Options (COFK) has built one of the nation's largest pediatric intensive networks, serving more than 28,000 children in 12 states, and is looking to almost double its geographic footprint within the next five years by leveraging its own technology stack. The Dallas-based company recently unified 14 intrapediatric care organizations under a single national brand. Today, COFK is building…