Hospitals are finding it harder to place patients into post-acute care settings, a new report finds. The report was put together by WellSky, a health tech company, based on data from CarePort, its ...

For patients with acute illness, home hospital care seems beneficial in a rural setting compared with brick-and-mortar hospital care.

Since the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, there has been a swelling of efforts by healthcare providers to manage what is often referred to as the “continuum of care” ...

Ambient AI is exploding in popularity because charting overhead is growing and clinicians want time back. However, acute care adoption significantly lags ambulatory settings: KLAS estimates in their ...

Patients who receive hospital care at home generally have lower mortality rates than their brick-and-mortar inpatient counterparts, according to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report on ...

Expanding the types of conditions for which hospital patients can be discharged early to post-acute care, forgoing full prospective payment, could save the Medicare system millions of dollars annually ...

Health systems have historically operated like a real estate portfolio or a disparate collection of assets, with each site having its own performance metrics, finances and operating processes. Too ...

Older adults regularly report a preference to age in place, and new data show that hospitals are increasingly referring patients to home health providers ...

Patients in Medicare Advantage plans are staying longer in the hospital but receiving considerably less post-acute care than their peers in traditional Medicare, according to a new study. Skilled ...