Hospital financial assistance programs are underutilized

Shlomi Madar, CEO of SpotitEarly, discusses how the company helps detect cancer by leveraging dogs’ sense of smell, AI technology and reward-based training that teaches dogs to distinguish between healthy and cancerous samples.

The federal program could be a short-term patch for struggling rural hospitals or the last chance to move rural healthcare onto a model that works at scale. Michael Dalton of non-profit virtual care provider Ovatient explains.

Recovery, downtime and disruption from IT outages cost some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute," lower staff morale and pose patient safety concerns, says healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison.