Clinical

Nioura Ghazni, partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, explains how hospital leaders are focused on improving and streamlining mission and operations, mitigating regulatory risk and building new revenue streams.

Tia opened another LA-based clinic with Cedars-Sinai, and the partners will set up three more brick-and-mortar clinics in Pasadena, Studio City and Culver City.

The CyncHealth health information exchange for Nebraska and Iowa and its two partners are being recognized by HHS's Racial Equity in Postpartum Care Challenge.

Ziad Nakshabandi, CEO of the National Center for Health Workforce Planning, describes how the group is aligning its efforts with the Kingdom's Vision 2030 objectives, including reskilling and upskilling of healthcare workers.

The state has signed the Kentucky-based healthcare IT company, which now operates PDMPs in 44 states, to run a heavily-debated program expected to launch in spring 2023.

The result the health system's virtual care chief is proudest of: reducing the referral queue from 19,000 patients to 3,000. "That is astounding," he says.

Also: partnership news from Uberdoc and Nest Collaborative and layoffs at Verily and Carbon Health.

While more data is still needed to reveal if mandated compliance programs decrease opioid prescription diversion and doctor shopping, new ONC studies show "substantial growth" in the use of EPCS and "widespread use" of PDMPs in 2021.

Predictive analytics in EHRs aren't yet effective enough for clinical decision support at the point of care.

Jaja Okigwe, CEO of First Choice Health, explains how risk-based contracts can allow providers to think more holistically about patients, rather than focusing on billing for services.