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Healthcare IT News
Healthcare Recovering from CrowdStrike Outage
Since CrowdStrike’s botched Microsoft security update, most healthcare organizations seem to be resuming normal operations. But one of the largest IT snafus ever shows that the industry must better prepare for third-party technology disruptions.
Healthcare IT Today
How AI Can Optimize Accounts Receivable Management
A new survey shows healthcare providers face ongoing pressures from labor shortages, rising costs and reimbursement delays. In fact, half of surveyed hospitals report $100 million in aged accounts receivable for claims over six months old. But effective AR management and AI can improve financial stability and cash flow to offset those pressures.
Morningstar
Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Struggle to Afford Healthcare, Research Shows
A growing share of adults across all age ranges are having trouble covering medical bills, according to the new West Health-Gallup Healthcare Affordability Index. While the percentage of all U.S. adults who can readily afford quality care dropped 6 percentage points since 2022, even steeper declines of about 8 percent were reported both for people age 50 to 64 and those 65 and older.
Health Affairs
Protecting Federally Qualified Health Centers Amid Drugstore Closures and Threats to 340B
In January 2024, a Walgreens location in Roxbury, Massachusetts, a predominantly Black and Latinx neighborhood in Boston, closed despite local grassroots activism and congressional support to keep it open. The shuttered store follows a series of Walgreens closures.
