The Solventum Client Experience Summit (CES) is coming soon, this Aug. 12-15, in Dallas. I sat down with Kimberlee Aiello, director of federal market solutions for Health Information Systems at Solventum, to find out what’s in store for federal customers who attend. Why should federal customers attend the upcoming Solventum CES? Working with federal organizations is a true partnership for us. Most of our federal market team has served in the military, so meeting with federal organizations and listening to their needs and ideas is very important to us. We have a keen interest in participating in their initiatives because […]

I am so proud to officially introduce you to Solventum. On April 1, we successfully spun off from 3M to become an independent, publicly traded company and dedicated global healthcare leader. We’re a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges. It’s been an energizing first couple of weeks, and we’re just getting started. At Solventum, we’re pioneering game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients’ lives for the better. Our mission? To enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives – and empower healthcare professionals to […]

Behavioral health refers to mental health and substance use, which can frequently co-occur. This is what makes the results of the most recently published Youth Risk Behavioral Survey (YRBS) so intriguing, yet disturbing as well. Reported substance use among high school students has been steadily decreasing while rates of hopelessness and suicidal ideation are on the rise. What can explain this, and what can be done about it? First, the good news. The proportion of high school students reporting current alcohol use has been steadily decreasing from approximately half of students in the 1990s to fewer than one in four […]

My late father-in-law was a prince of a guy. He was kind, funny, generous and a jack of all trades. His skills included painting, plumbing, electrical, sheetrock, hanging wallpaper and more. He was practically Bob Vila, the American home improvement television show host. So, when my wife married me, she assumed she was getting someone equally as handy around the house. Of course, she was wrong. Early in our marriage, a bedroom lamp stopped working and my wife asked me to fix it. After several minutes of inspection (checking the cord, the switch, the outlet and even the circuit breaker […]

In the film, The Devil Wears Prada, Anne Hathaway portrays Andrea, a novice assistant to fashion mogul Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). Miranda’s chief protégé and confidant, Nigel (Stanley Tucci), shows little patience for Andrea when, during their first encounter, he warns, “Don’t make me feed you to one of the models.” In the 14 years since its inception, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMMI) has released more models than a Paris runway during Fashion Week. Payment and care delivery models, that is. There are 98 models and counting to be exact. Faced with such a barrage, […]

Priya Bathija and Lauren Riplinger, JD

I sat down with Garri Garrison, 3M Health Information Systems division president, to discuss HIMSS 2024 and some of the things you’ll see in our booth this year. HIMSS is next week, and we’re excited to showcase our autonomous coding and ambient intelligence solutions. Can you tell us what clients can expect in our booth? Yes! We’re excited to see a lot of our friends and partners in Orlando next week. I’m really excited to showcase the progress we’ve made with autonomous coding and ambient intelligence over the last year. We’ve been working hard alongside our clients to automate the […]

The average length of stay, or ALOS, is the average number of days patients spend in an acute care hospital. The annual ALOS in the U.S. varies between 4.5 to 6.5 days, depending on where you look or over what period. It might not seem like much time, but if you find yourself away from the comfort of your bed and away from your loved ones, it could feel quite disagreeable. Hospital-at-home is a growing concept that, according to the American Hospital Association, “enables some patients who need acute-level care to receive care in their homes, rather than in a […]

Aditi Mallick, M.D., acting director, CMS Office of Minority Health