Wednesday, Senators Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Mark Warner, D-Va., introduced a bill that would increase reimbursement for remote monitoring in rural areas. Representatives David Kustoff, R-Tenn., Mark Pocan D-Wis., Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, and Don Davis, D-N.C., also introduced the Rural Patient Monitoring Access Act in the House, which would expand access to remote patient monitoring in rural areas, where low payment rates discourage providers and RPM companies from providing services.
A top Democrat on the House committee overseeing the Department of Veterans Affairs is concerned that further workforce reductions and spending cuts across the agency will hamper VA’s push to restart deployments of its new Oracle Health electronic health record system. Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill. — the ranking member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Technology Modernization Subcommittee — said successfully rolling out the EHR system remains “the most important goal” of the panel, even as she noted that “there have been a number of issues” with the project.
On April 30, the American Hospital Association (AHA) released a report on the challenges facing American hospitals. The Cost of Caring: Challenges Facing America’s Hospitals in 2025 outlines the financial burden that intensified expenses have placed on hospitals in recent years.
Electronic health record giant Epic continued to amass a greater share of the U.S. hospital market in 2024, adding 176 multispecialty hospitals and 29,399 beds. The health IT company now commands 42.3% of the acute care EHR market, up from 39.1% a year prior. In 2024, 10 large health systems chose Epic for 108 hospitals — 67 of which were from just two organizations contributing to Epic’s largest net gain on record, according to KLAS Research's latest EHR market share report.
Can discharge summaries produced using large-language models (LLMs) actually match the accuracy and patient safety of discharge summaries produced by human physicians? A team of researchers at UCSF Health in San Francisco has produced a study on the subject, which was published online in JAMA Internal Medicine on May 5, to find out. The study was conducted by a team of 24 researchers, led by Christopher Y.K. Williams, MB BChir.
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