Month: October 2023

The company has brought in seasoned exec Neal Sample to make “near-term” technology decisions, according to an email sent to employees.

Decatur, Texas-based Wise Health System, which is due to be acquired by a subsidiary of Nashville, Tenn-.based hospital giant HCA Healthcare, was downgraded three notches […]

The former CEO of Richmond-based VCU Health long lobbied against a now abandoned $325 million capital project and faced internal opposition from the health system […]

Eladio Gil takes the reins as interim chief financial officer as the struggling primary care chain searches to replace Brian Koppy.

Katalin Karikó, who is sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with mRNA vaccines, says she was previously demoted by the University of […]

As states unwind the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision, they must comply with federal renewal requirements, including the requirement to conduct ex parte, or automated renewals. […]

More than 9 in 10 pharmacy technicians are experiencing workflow challenges and about 45 percent said they’re unable to administer prescriptions because of drug shortages, […]

Hundreds of pharmacy technicians, pharmacy clerks and pharmacy warehouse employees at Kaiser Permanente began picketing Oct. 1 in a strike planned to last through Oct. […]

CVS pharmacists protesting challenging working conditions in Kansas City returned to work Sept. 28 after CVS leaders vowed to make numerous improvements, USA Today reported. 

Renton, Wash.-based Providence successfully incubated its fourth technology through Providence Digital Innovation Group: Praia Health.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to […]

Five staffing agencies contracted by Mercy Iowa City began pulling their workers from the hospital shortly after it filed for bankruptcy protection, The Gazette reported […]

09/10/2023 Empowering tomorrow’s chemical engineers with OiRA in Greece Image In Greece, our national focal point Hellenic Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, in cooperation […]

The new contract puts to bed four years of tense network disputes between the Catholic health system and the Elevance subsidiary.

St. Luke’s and Saint Alphonsus health systems, both based in Boise, Idaho, have rolled out virtual nursing at seven hospitals, the Idaho Statesman reported.

There have been no confirmed detections of infections caused by a family of flu viruses known as Influenza B/Yamagata since March 2020, suggesting it may […]

One year ago, on Oct. 2, 2022, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health detected a ransomware attack on its IT network.

CMS has proposed maintaining geographic flexibility for telehealth through Dec. 31, 2024, allowing Medicare beneficiaries to be treated virtually by physicians located anywhere in the […]

A 35-year-old Texas woman pleaded not guilty to the allegations that she impersonated a nurse for three years, the Laredo Morning Times reported Sept. 30.

Several companies and vendors offer EHR systems and services, but companies such as Epic Systems and Oracle Cerner have historically dominated the market. Will this […]

Here are four hospitals and health systems making changes to its IT executive teams as reported by Becker’s since Sept. 13:

From the American Medical Association releasing its annual CPT code update, to Atheneahealth naming a senior vice president of revenue cycle management, here are seven […]

Houston Methodist is making leadership changes following the announcement that Debra Feigin Sukin, PhD, has been selected as the new president of Houston-based Texas Children’s.

The August cyberattack targeting Culver City, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings’ Connecticut facilities has left a financial strain on the hospitals as some computer systems are […]

Stewart Memorial Community Hospital in Lake City, Iowa, has named Linn Block, BSN, RN, CEO. 

Legionnaires’ disease-causing bacteria was found in one area of the 303-bed Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital, NBC affiliate WSAZ reported Sept. 29.

Three Ohio facilities, including two hospitals, operated by Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers are now officially part of Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health.

The hospital lobby argued recent guidance limiting third-party tracking technology prevents providers from sharing reliable healthcare information.

Miami-based primary care provider Cano Health has replaced its former CFO Brian Koppy with interim CFO Eladio Gil.

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees across the U.S. are preparing to go on strike this week after their contract expired with no new […]

Hospital and health system executives are looking for ways to add revenue as costs continue to increase and margins stay tight. Many see boosting clinical […]

Two employees at Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., were stabbed by a patient Oct. 1, according to police.

This article is sponsored by AlayaCare. This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Naomi Goldapple, SVP, Data and Intelligence at […]

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals Woodhull campus in Brooklyn evacuated and transferred 116 patients Sept. 30 to allow the facility to shut down […]

Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD — two Penn Medicine scientists known for their groundbreaking work on messenger RNA that laid the foundation […]

Hospital margins are moving in the right direction, as the median year-to-date operating margin improved in August to 1.1 percent, according to Kaufman Hall.

A new lawsuit against New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center alleges the system covered up years of abuse by urologist Darius Paduch, MD, […]

CMS has fined West Covina (Calif.)  Medical Center alleged price transparency violations.

Two scientists whose discoveries were instrumental in creating the mRNA shots against COVID-19 won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday. Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and […]

New Orleans-based LCMC Health has named Anthony Cunningham chief revenue officer. 

COVID-19 hospitalizations have fallen for the second week after the U.S. noted a slight uptick every week since July, according to CDC data. 

Inova Health system, based in Fairfax, Va., is launching a rebranding initiative that will give the health system a new logo, as well as a […]

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The agreement settles a whistleblower lawsuit against Cigna that the Department of Justice joined last year, and requires the payer to undergo annual auditing from an […]

03/10/2023 New OSH Barometer multilingual flyer out! Image © EU-OSHA We just published a new flyer in EU-OSHA’s official 25 languages for the OSH Barometer, […]

The number of sentinel events in 2023 is on track to be near last year’s record-setting 1,441 patient safety events that led to death, harm […]

Mobile, Ala.-based University of South Alabama announced that Ascension Providence Hospital and its clinics are part of USA Health, the university’s academic health system. 

The pharmacy giant is considering handing the reins to former Express Scripts and Evernorth CEO Tim Wentworth, according to Bloomberg, as Walgreens searches for a chief executive […]

03/10/2023 Risk assessment first: Learning how to use OiRA in Slovakia Image A seminar hosted by Slovakia’s National Labour Inspectorate / Národný inšpektorát práce takes […]

Global sum payments per weighted patient will rise from £102.28 to £104.73 for 2023/24 to help practices deliver a 6% pay rise for salaried GPs […]

Global sum payments per weighted patient will rise from £102.28 to £104.73 for 2023/24 to help practices deliver a 6% pay rise for salaried GPs […]

A federal program to combat the alarming rates of rural women dying from pregnancy complications has marked a first: It’s supporting an organization that serves […]

Health officials are urging vulnerable people to come forward for their flu jab after a new analysis of data suggested that last year’s vaccination programme […]

Health officials are urging vulnerable people to come forward for their flu jab after a new analysis of data suggested that last year’s vaccination programme […]

As reported in the Economist: In 2019, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit) did something unusual in modern medicine—they found a new antibiotic, […]