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Hospital and health system revenue cycles will face a labor shortage and external economic pressures for the indefinite future. Automation can help streamline and optimize healthcare revenue cycles, but organizations must use this enabling technology with strategic intent.

Of these 18 million people, 3.8 million people will become completely uninsured, according to the Urban Institute’s report. The estimate is higher than HHS' August prediction of 15 million people losing coverage after the public health emergency.

Give innovators guidelines that reward hard-fought failures. Look outside your organization and industry for breakthroughs to adapt, rather than products or procedures to adopt. Innovation isn’t something you acquire. It’s something you grow from within.

WebMD Provider Services struck a partnership with patient communication company Artera (formerly WELL Health) to expand access to patient educational content and medication affordability programs through texting.

Ekso Bionics — a company that makes exoskeleton bionic devices — recently acquired Parker Hannifin’s business unit for human motion and control for $10 million. The acquisition will help extend Ekso’s product line across the continuum of care and provides access to Vanderbilt University as a research partner.

Verve Therapeutics received the formal FDA letter outlining what the agency wants to see before it lifts the clinical hold placed on the biotech’s gene-editing therapy. The lifting of a clinical hold on another experimental genetic medicine was among the other recent regulatory news from the past week, which included two drug approvals and one rejection.

About 21,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses in Northern California ratified a new four-year contract — one that includes provisions for a 22.5% wage increase, improved staffing and more. The contract's approval comes about two weeks after Kaiser reached an agreement with California Nurses Association to avert what would have been the biggest private sector nurses strike in American history.

Nuance recently added Baptist Health and Einstein Healthcare to its precision imaging network, a platform that allows healthcare providers to adopt AI-powered diagnostic imaging tools at the point of care. Joining the network means physicians will have an easier time quickly figuring out which tools make the biggest impact on patient care, Baptist’s chief medical information officer said.

Every public health system is unique, and the reasons for shortages vary. To respond, leaders can analyze their particular needs and then take action to develop and re-stock the talent pool. Here are four actions that can help.

Given that providers are under increased pressure from CMS to take on some form of downside risk by 2025, they and health plans can utilize these four strategies to make the transition smoother.