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Report: 2019 Outpatient Trends Survey Results
Outpatient care refers to medical procedures and services that don’t require an overnight stay; Ambulatory Surgery Centers ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), urgent care centers, retail or walk in clinics, primary care clinics, and imaging centers…
Top Medicare and all-payer inpatient procedures by ICD-10 code
On January 1, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) released changes made to its list of inpatient-only procedures. Currently, there are approximately 1,700 surgical procedures on the list, with some being added and removed every year…
Predicting COVID-19’s long-term effects
During the summer of 2020, Definitive Healthcare polled healthcare leaders ranging from pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries to healthcare IT, consulting, provider organizations, and more. These professionals shared how they…
Top hospitals by ICD-10 misadventure diagnosis
Medical errors are a serious problem in the healthcare industry, costing anywhere between $17 and $29 billion annually—even ranking as the third-highest cause of death, according to some estimates. Errors come in many forms, such as misdiagnosis…
Top Inpatient EHR System Vendors
More than 93 percent of U.S. hospitals report using an inpatient EHR system, according to Definitive Healthcare data. The widespread adoption of EHRs has been credited to the CMS Meaningful Use initiative, which was launched in 2011. Meaningful Use…
Top IDNs by average daily census
Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) offer both healthcare services and health insurance coverage to patients within a geographic area. Each IDN is unique in its function and offerings, but generally provide primary care, acute care, specialty care…
2019's U.S. hospitals with highest cancer diagnoses by ICD-10 code
Isolating cancer data can be challenging due to the wide variety of locations cancer can appear and the many different forms cancer can take. This list highlights which hospitals reported the highest volume of cancer-related claims.
50 Most recent hospital and health system executive moves
As 2018 begins, hospitals and health systems are implementing new improvement plans and setting the tone for the months to come—including a number of senior leadership changes. The healthcare industry is becoming increasingly complex, requiring…