Today on HITshow:



After 40+ days of shutdown drama, Washington has flipped the lights back on under a short-term funding deal running through the end of January. Buried in that continuing resolution are very real, very immediate implications for hospitals and health systems—from telehealth and hospital-at-home to rural payment support and DSH cuts. We're tracking what the government funding deal actually does for providers in the short term, what it means to have Ochsner CEO Pete November heading to the AHA Board of Trustees right as these debates roll into the next round, and one quick example of infusion interoperability going live on the hospital floor.



HOST: RHONDA BROOKS



???? Government Funding Deal — Anika Shah



Congress passed a continuing resolution funding the government into late January. For providers, the short-term lifelines on telehealth, hospital-at-home, rural support, and DSH are back—but the real problem is the timing. Everything expires again in January, which means round two of negotiations starts immediately.



???? AHA Leadership — Teresa Vaughn



The American Hospital Association elected Pete November, president and CEO of Ochsner Health, to its Board of Trustees starting January 1. His experience navigating Gulf South realities—hurricanes, workforce shortages, tough payer mixes—brings operational grounding to national advocacy at a critical moment for telehealth, payment, and safety-net funding decisions.



???? Infusion Safety & Interoperability — Peter Betterworth



Duncan Regional Hospital in Oklahoma is now live with BD Alaris infusion interoperability connected to a MEDITECH EHR—one of the first real-world deployments in a community setting. Medication orders now flow directly from the EHR into smart pumps, and infusion data flows back into the record, reducing manual keying, dose errors, and improving visibility into what's actually running on each patient.



Bright Spot:



Fundamental XR and Elsevier are partnering on a mixed reality training program that takes anatomy and procedure training off flat screens into three-dimensional space, potentially changing how quickly clinicians get up to speed. CEO Richard Vincent discusses the partnership with Jalen Cross.

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