Amit Trivedi, HIMSS director of informatics and health IT standards, explains the purpose of the international patient summary to support global patient health data exchange.

HIMSS Vice President of Informatics Christina Caraballo, MBA, explains new interoperability standards have been proposed to enable better image sharing across hospital IT systems.

Unexpected empathy: Blinded healthcare professionals consistently scored the AI—yes, a ChatGPT model—higher than the doctors even for bedside manners.

Hospitals are seeing a return of the nursing workforce after many left their jobs during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health Exec caught up with Claire Ernst from MGMA to learn more about the possibility of physician payments being tied to inflation in the future.

Tirzepatide, sold under the name Mounjaro, is among a handful of drugs with big buzz for their weight loss results, and approval for obesity could be a huge revenue source for Eli Lilly in the future.

“We're not seeing high rates of XBB.1.16 yet in the United States, but it may become more prominent in coming weeks," says Matthew Binnicker, PhD, director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic.

Several studies have found that compliance is low with the government's new price transparency regulations. CMS hopes these newly announced changes can make a difference. 

Walmart Health, which launched in 2019, offers many primary care services, as well as urgent care, labs, X-ray and diagnostics, behavioral health, dental and hearing services.

The new entity, Risant Health, will continue growing through acquisitions and the connection of like-minded health systems.