Hospitals

You can’t see them, but Meta’s trackers are embedded in millions of websites all over the internet, collecting data about where you go and what you do and sending it back to Meta. A recent investigation shows that those trackers are on sites that even the most cynical among us might expect to be off-limits: those belonging to hospitals, including patient portals that are supposed to be protected by health privacy laws. This week, the Markup, a nonprofit news outlet that covers technology’s harms, has been publishing…

The Supreme Court said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unlawfully cut lucrative pharmaceutical subsidies to some hospitals, in a victory for hospitals that had disputed the move. The unanimous decision on Wednesday reverses two years of the cuts, which were made starting in 2018 as a centerpiece of the Trump administration’s health-policy agenda. The cuts sharply reduced federal subsidies under a program, known as 340B, created to help buoy hospitals that care for…

Two Georgia hospitals on Wednesday were hit with federal financial penalties for failing to disclose their prices, marking the first such enforcement action taken under federal rules that have met with uneven compliance since taking effect in January 2021.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ), which is responsible for enforcing the rules, levied fines on Northside Hospital Atlanta and Northside Hospital Cherokee. The two hospitals, which are owned by Northside Hospital,…

Avisa has transformed the traditional hospital into a smart hospital with interconnected systems leveraging technologies and complete medical infrastructure to bring positive growth in the healthcare sector and improve patient-centric care leading to better life quality. Avisa services include Avisa smart hospitals, Avisa labs & diagnostic, Avisa pharmacy, and Avisa smart health card, which creates a complete novel health ecosystem. Analytics Insight has engaged in an exclusive interview with Dr. Aswini Ashokan…

Physicians at pediatric liver centers in the United Kingdom have been meeting regularly to work out how best to care for children with a mysterious hepatitis that has afflicted at least 176 children in the United Kingdom and more than 500 worldwide. But they can’t agree. “It’s proving immensely difficult to get everyone to agree how on Earth to manage these children,” says Will Irving, a virologist at the University of Nottingham. At the center of the debate are conflicting…

According to a new RAND Corporation report, prices paid to hospitals during 2020 by employers and private insurers for both inpatient and outpatient services averaged 224% of what Medicare would have paid.Prices paid to hospitals during 2020 by employers and private insurers for both inpatient and outpatient services averaged 224% of what Medicare would have paid, with substantial variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND Corporation report.Some states (Hawaii, Arkansas, and Washington) had relative prices…

China’s Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns have led to a shortage of a dye widely used in medical scans, prompting U.S. hospitals including the Mayo Clinic to ration supplies, postpone procedures or switch to less optimal imaging.The shortage arose in recent weeks for iodinated contrast media products including Omnipaque, made by General Electric Co. ’s GE Healthcare unit at a plant in Shanghai. Omnipaque is given by intravenous injection to patients before imaging procedures to make internal…

NEW DELHI : The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) plans to set up centres for advanced research for bone marrow transplant (BMT) in government hospitals across India. The apex medical research institute is of the view that BMT is a high-end procedure done for critically ill patients and the majority of centres are in the private sector thus limiting access of treatment to the poor. ICMR plans to support the medical institutions in setting up state-of-the-art…

Some hospitals grappling with rising nurse salaries are seeking to raise prices by up to 15%, touching off contract fights with health insurers and businesses and threatening higher premiums. Neither of the chains would specify the price increases they are requesting, but people familiar with negotiations say some hospitals are asking to increase their prices by 7.5% to 15%.…

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) plans to set up a hospital-based surveillance network to collect data on sexually transmitted infections (STI), document patterns and analyse trends. The move will help experts to formulate patient management policies, diagnostic protocols, and develop a public health policy to address concerns over STIs, according to ICMR. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also set a target to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted…