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Understanding the “Big Beautiful Bill”: What Acute Care Providers Need to Know

Relias

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) , passed into law on July 4, 2025, includes major healthcare policy changes affecting all levels of acute care. Implications for acute care providers in rural markets As rural health systems prepare for what’s ahead, clinical leaders are emphasizing the importance of implementation.

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5 Business Ideas for an Enterprising NP

Minority Nurse

We find NPs in acute care, family practice, cardiology , neurology, and all clinical settings. Circumventing long waits for appointments and the bureaucracy of traditional medical practices, concierge patients pay out of pocket for the convenience of easy access to care. Idea #3: Skin Care Skin care is big business.

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Can EHRs Expand to Become Health Systems’ “Platform of Platforms” (UDHPs)?

The Healthcare Blog

1) EHRs Currently Own the Customer Relationship Fueled by federal HITECH incentives and mandates, health systems have made significant investments in their existing EHRs: As of 2021, 96% of non-federal acute care hospitals in the U.S. had adopted a certified EHR. Many existing clinical workflows are built on EHRs.

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How Routine Medical Care Fuels America’s Opioid Crisis

The Healthcare Blog

A study from the University of Michigan/IBM Watson revealed that a single opioid prescription after elective surgery increased healthcare costs by an average of $5,680 per patient per year across all payer types, including Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Meaningful Use and EHR

Arkenea

It also consists information about demographics, medical insurance, and data acquired from wearable health devices. EHR ensures that data is shared with the healthcare facilities and practitioners for better coordination and patient care. government provided financial incentives to those who met certain criteria and standards.

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Providence unveils tech-focused strategic plan for 2030

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Providence will deploy initiatives to reduce wait times and increase self-scheduling, deepen its commitment to value-based care, revamp its acute and post-acute care offerings to include more virtual, ambulatory and in-home care options, and increase its use of AI tools.

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“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Healthcare Blog

The data were derived from the Healthcare Cost Institute, a repository of commercial insurance claims information from three of the four largest commercial health insurers, United Healthcare, Humana and Aetna (a subsidiary of struggling pharmacy giant CVS) plus Blue Cross/Blue Shield.