Now more than ever, US health systems are under pressure to move further along the path to becoming smart hospitals. This report evaluates the hospital of the future, as well as the technologies and use cases driving adoption. We also provide best practices for developing and executing a smart hospital strategy.

Samsung Medical Center is becoming certified under HIMSS’ global standard for digital health transformation—we unpack why this could help it capture more health system and hospital customers.

Hospital and health system operations are facing unprecedented pressures, but consumer demands will only get more persistent. Enhancing consumer-centric strategies might not be top of mind for health systems already burdened with staffing challenges and capacity strain.

The number of mobile apps for health condition management is rising. This report examines how smartphone apps can help users control diseases and what gaps need to be filled before more consumers, providers, and payers get on board.

Hospital and health system leaders have been keeping tabs on the inroads being made by primary care disruptors. In the sixth annual Kaufman Hall State of Consumerism in Healthcare Survey, newer primary care models were listed for the first time as potential threats to hospitals and health systems.

We detail why their remote monitoring tool is scaling at a time when hospital-at-home momentum is only going to pick up.

We unpack the AMA’s recent report on behavioral health integration via telehealth and highlight 2 key areas where digital health can drive access to mental health.

In fact, outside of Cerner’s government contracts, no new large health systems have selected Cerner since 2013, per KLAS. What this means: Although Cerner gained traction among small hospitals, the large health system losses decreased its market share in 2021 compared with previous years.

Some hospitals have a patient’s MRI results and medical history on two different softwares requiring separate logins, for instance. Toggling between both takes valuable time away from patient care. Here’s what the partnership means for Google: Its Care Studio has had one-off partnerships with health systems, but partnering with Meditech means reaching multiple new hospital clients.

We’ll see telehealth become more of a concrete part of healthcare considering its ROI potential for health systems and hospitals contending with staff shortage crises and rising healthcare spending.

We expect to see these mobile networks score more health system/hospital partnerships this year as the trend towards RPM-integrated care continues to balloon. In February 2021, T-Mobile deployed 5G in the Miami Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System to bolster its telehealth capabilities. In April 2021, Verizon launched its HIPAA-compliant virtual care platform BlueJeans Telehealth in April 2021.

Two major health systems poured $100 million in hospital-at-home care startup Medically Home—here’s why so many health systems are lunging for hospital-at-home solutions and a glimpse at what could hold them back.

Olive and health system TriHealth are partnering to automate revenue cycle management—which can save hospitals a ton of money in denied claims, but AI RCM vendors are also focusing on digital billing to recoup hospital revenue.

As Fresenius Health Partners, Cricket Health, and Interwell Health merge to curb kidney care costs, we detail how interoperability will be a physician barrier.

Health systems and hospitals had losses of nearly $203 billion in the first few months of the pandemic alone (largely due to low patient volumes and other COVID-19 related costs), per the AHA. So, it makes sense that health systems want to tighten their RCM to cushion against future financial hits by investing in tech tools like those offered by R1/Cloudmed.

On the back of Medically Home’s latest $110M raise backed by Kaiser Permanente and Mayo Clinic, we explore why permanent home health reimbursement policies could be on the horizon.