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Cobleskill (N.Y.) Regional Hospital, part of Cooperstown, N.Y.-based Bassett Healthcare Network, has received a $600,000 bequest, its largest ever gift.

Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica, a 12-hospital system, has completed the sale of its home health, palliative and hospice business to Gentiva Health Services, a hospice company […]

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger is using an artificial intelligence-powered workflow system to identify patients with lung abnormalities for further screening. 

Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore-Edward-Elmhurst Health has struck a partnership with value-based care company Lumeris. 

Walmart Health has inked its first health system partnership.

Infant mortality in the U.S. went up 3% between 2021 and 2022, according to a CDC report published Nov. 1. It’s the first time the […]

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute may be inching closer to an improved type of T-cell therapy that could “supercharge” their response against solid tumors, […]

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its CY 2024 home health final payment rule Wednesday. It comes with an estimated aggregate […]

Apple could soon be banned from importing some of its smartwatches into the U.S., after the International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled last week that the […]

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is ramping up efforts around two of its most recently acquired home-based care and primary care assets. “We are scaling capabilities […]

Erie, Pa.-based UPMC Hamot has renamed its nine-bed pediatric unit to UPMC Children’s at UPMC Hamot. 

To bolster value-based care, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is launching a comprehensive initiative to reimagine its home health operations. Humana’s home health engine — CenterWell […]

Platform engineering has been called the next evolution in DevOps and has the potential to move healthcare innovations forward in a groundbreaking way. Cutting-edge solutions […]

The digital transformation healthcare providers are undergoing requires them to keep sensitive data, like protected health information, secure across an expanding surface of touchpoints and […]

At the busy county hospital where I did my medical residency, we cared for patients with every imaginable problem. But one part of treatment was […]

Robin Berzin used to work with me at Health 2.0 , as well as combining her medical training with lots of media production and other […]

Nearly 5 million additional Americans should be screened for lung cancer, according to an updated guideline released Wednesday by the American Cancer Society (ACS).  The […]

Fifty hospitals were selected as the top in the nation for cardiac surgery, according to a Healthgrades ranking released Oct. 24.

Advances in technology make it easier to detect and treat cardiovascular diseases, which begs the question: Could medicine reach a point where it could eliminate […]

Walgreens Boots Alliance has named Neal Sample as its new CIO and executive vice president. 

The “old style” of healthcare private equity investment that relied heavily on “financial engineering and cost-cutting” is fading away, according to an Oct. 31 report […]

Despite the $1 billion valuation, not all healthcare unicorns have been able to find long-term success. Becker’s has reported on RCM, physician services and digital […]

A woman is suing Bend, Ore.-based St. Charles Health System after a medication delay that allegedly caused her to experience a stroke in late 2021, […]

The infant mortality rate in the U.S. rose last year for the first time in 20 years, according to a new report from the Centers […]

Glenwood Regional Medical Center, a 278-bed hospital in West Monroe, La., has named Jon Turton interim president. 

Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health has been downgraded from “A” to “A-” as the health system deals with sustained operating losses resulting in fewer days’ cash […]

From Olive AI announcing it is shutting down, to Tenet’s CEO calling payer denials “excessive and inappropriate,” here are eight revenue cycle management updates Becker’s […]

In October, Newsweek released its 2024 America’s Best-In-State Hospitals list, which ranks the top 600 U.S. hospitals by state.

Last year, the average net worth of American families surpassed $1 million for the first time, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 27. 

Bradenton-based HCA Florida Blake Hospital broke ground on a freestanding emergency department in Palmetto, Fla., the Herald-Tribune reported Nov. 1. 

Matt Nobis has been named regional vice president of finance for Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health.

HCA Midwest Health has joined forces with Kansas City (Mo.) University, the largest medical school in Missouri.

Members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 began a weekslong strike Nov. 1 at five Kaiser Permanente locations in Washington and Oregon.

Healthcare payment technology provider Waystar is acquiring Olive AI’s clearinghouse and patient access business units following Olive’s Oct. 31 announcement that it is shutting down. 

Aurora Health Care has named Carla LaFever president of Aurora Medical Center-Grafton (Wis.). 

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has named Craig Blinderman, MD, chief of the supportive care service. 

Executives at some of the big for-profit health systems were not shy about discussing “increasingly aggressive behavior” from insurers during recent financial results calls.

Life sciences and diagnostics company Danaher appointed Christopher Riley as executive vice president for biotechnology.

President Joe Biden outlined the planned program as part of an executive order on “safe, secure, and trustworthy” artificial intelligence.

While automation holds the lucrative promise for many fields of removing mundane tasks from workloads, some nurse leaders are hopeful — but questioning — if […]

Doctors’ Management Services, a medical management company based in West Bridgewater, Mass., agreed to pay HHS and the Office for Civil Rights a $100,000 settlement […]

Children’s hospitals across the U.S. are bracing for capacity strain amid supply issues for a new antibody drug meant to prevent severe illness from respiratory […]

As health systems continue to deal with workforce shortages, many leaders are turning to technology to try to alleviate some of the burdens on their […]

A new type of vaccine could stimulate the innate immune system to prevent deaths from hospital-acquired infections caused by a variety of bacteria and fungi, […]

World Rugby has adopted a smart mouthguard developed at Cleveland Clinic to help detect head injuries.

Talent strain is the biggest challenge for health system CIOs for the fourth straight year, according to a Stoltenberg Consulting study.

When Larry met Bill, it made news in Nashville.

General Catalyst’s recently launched Health Assurance Transformation Corp. plans to purchase a health system in the “$1 billion to $3 billion range” that will serve […]

Increasingly, non-physicians are using the term doctor for those who receive a PhD. All people who earn a PhD deserve the cultural authority to call […]

Doctors’ Management Services agreed to settle claims it did not comply with HIPAA breach rules and failed to identify risks after a cyberattack exposed the information of […]

Providence, R.I.-based CharterCare Health Partners has named Jeff Bechen Sr. as vice president of revenue cycle operations, according to a post on Mr. Bechen’s LinkedIn […]

Madera (Calif.) Community Hospital was fined and reprimanded for numerous state and federal health and safety violations before its closure in December 2022. Between 2016 […]

The North Carolina attorney general’s office could sue HCA Healthcare for an alleged violation of the 2019 asset purchase agreement to acquire Asheville, N.C.-based Mission […]

CVS Health posted $2.3 billion in net income in the third quarter and revenue growth across its core lines of business in insurance, care delivery, […]

Charleston, W.Va.-based Vandalia Health reported operating income of $72.2 million for the first half of 2023 on revenues of $1.2 billion.

Baptist Memorial Health Care is undergoing a number of changes in its C-suite.

Investing in technology is the top way healthcare finance leaders are looking to cut costs, according to an Oct. 17 report compiled by U.S. Bank.

St. Louis-based Mercy has opened its first innovation unit as a “testing ground” for optimization ideas. 

“One of the biggest mistakes” healthcare leaders can make is misreading the motivations of their employees, Sachin Jain, MD, wrote in an Oct. 31 LinkedIn […]

Access to care, eliminating disparities and expanding quality care are the top three things leaders want changed about cancer care.

Twelve percent of U.S. clinicians, care delivery leaders and healthcare executives do not believe their organization’s financial health will ever recover to pre-pandemic levels. 

Is the American Medical Association going soft on single-payer health care? We’re about to find out. For more than a century, the most influential U.S. […]

Written complaints about general practice were 37% higher in 2022/23 compared with five years earlier, official data show. GPonline looks at the main factors driving […]

Written complaints about general practice were 37% higher in 2022/23 compared with five years earlier, official data show. GPonline looks at the main factors driving […]

Taking place this year on 29 November 2023 at the Hilton Liverpool City Centre, this event will be a great place for you to update […]

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Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, N.M., ranked highest in the country for nurse organizational support, an MIT Sloan Management Review report found.

On September 21, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule that is intended to help low-income Medicare beneficiaries gain access […]

An abortion ballot measure in Ohio is driving a surge in early voter turnout in what is seen as the most important referendum on reproductive […]

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Open Enrollment for 2024 health insurance is officially here! From now until January 15, 2024, you can apply for new health coverage or make changes to your […]

In U.S. hospitals, unnecessary coronary stents were given to patients every seven minutes between 2019 and 2021, according to a new report from the Lown […]

A group of senators sent a letter to President Joe Biden last week urging him and his administration to look after the Medicare home health […]

The CDC has launched a federal campaign to offer hospital leaders a collection of resources to strengthen workplace policies around employee well-being and to reduce […]

Following on the heels of the FDA’s updated recall list of contaminated eye drops, the American Optometric Association issued an alert Oct. 31 warning individuals […]

Sachin Jain, MD, has a message for Medicare Advantage critics: You’re right.

Compared to 2022, there is a 15% higher demand for hospital pharmacists so far in 2023, according to a recent report from the American Association […]

Medicaid expansion in Montana is set to sunset in 2025, and removing that coverage could limit affordable healthcare in the state, Logan Health President and […]

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has named Israel Rocha president of its Mid-Atlantic states region. 

Before Fort Myers, Fla.-based Cypress Living stood up its own primary care practice on campus, the senior care organization relied on an outside provider on […]

More than 50% of patients experiencing long COVID-19 did not improve after 18 months, according to new study findings that included more than 800 patients. 

The world’s second patient transplanted with a genetically modified pig heart has died, the University of Maryland School of Medicine said Oct. 31.

A supply shortage means a drug that can prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants won’t have a major immediate impact, children’s hospitals said, and […]

Southwestern Health Resources, a 31-hospital joint venture, will conduct a mass layoff affecting nearly 300 employees by year’s end. 

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT reports that an increasing number of patients are using online patient portals or apps to access […]

Olive AI, a healthcare RCM company, is selling off the last of its units to Waystar and Humata Health and shutting down.

Chicago-based Cook County Health has tapped its chief quality officer, Erik Mikaitis, MD, as interim CEO. 

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed Health has broken ground on a 40,000-square-foot facility in Piedmont, S.C., that will provide emergency care and other services to one of […]

Pfizer is shuttering its location in Gladstone, N.J., and the company is offering to relocate the current employees.

Hospitals nationwide reported a 1.6% median operating margin in September, the seventh straight positive monthly figure, according to data from Syntellis Performance Solutions.

Lewes, Del.-based Beebe Healthcare has reached its original fundraising goal of $22.5 million and is increasing the objective to $30 million, the Cape Gazette reported […]

Members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals within Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health approved new one-year contract extension agreements.

Forty-seven percent of finance leaders plan to invest in technology to cut costs, but digital transformation has also come with obstacles, according to a recent […]

After suspecting manipulated results in clinical trials for simufilam, an Alzheimer’s drug, by Hoau-Yan Wang, PhD, a neuroscience professor at the City College of New […]

The FDA granted approval Oct. 27 for toripalimab-tpzi, a new drug therapy for head and neck cancer patients. 

Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) has reduced turnover and delivered on important acquisitions over the past few months. Still, a home- and community-based services (HCBS) […]

One way CDC protects the nation’s health is through guidelines for healthcare settings that protect patients, providers, visitors, and staff from infection. These guidelines are […]

Nationally-known patient safety expert Vicki Good, DNP, RN, has been selected by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses as its next chief clinical officer.

Brenda Carroll, MSN, RN, has been named the chief nursing officer of Merit Health Wesley in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Ascension Via Christi on Dec. 20 will cease operations at its emergency department in Fort Scott, Kan., which has seen a steady decline in patient […]

UNC Health’s chief nurse executive, Cathy Madigan, DNP, FN, will retire Nov. 17, the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based system said in a LinkedIn post. 

Olympus, a medical supply company based in Pennsylvania, warned customers that its High Flow Insufflation Unit may suddenly over-inflate air into a patient’s body without […]

All four of the nation’s most prominent for-profit health systems have now reported third-quarter financial results. Here is a summary of some key numbers for […]

Nostrum Laboratories and its founder and CEO, Nirmal Mulye, PhD, agreed to pay between $3.8 million and $50 million to settle allegations of underpaying Medicaid […]

University Medical Center in New Orleans is warning workers against bullying as registered nurses call on management to allow a union election.

More than 229,000 unnecessary coronary stents were performed at U.S. hospitals from 2019 to 2021 — a rate of one every seven minutes, according to […]

Para millones de personas que compran su propio seguro de salud a través del mercado establecido por la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo […]

The Biden administration on Monday called for all U.S. schools to stock naloxone and to train students and faculty to be able to administer the […]

Corporate boards of public companies are lacking people experts, like chief human resources officers, who offer expertise on talent management, recruitment and retention.

NYU Langone trustees Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Robert Gottesman gave $9.8 million to the department of pediatrics at NYU Langone Health to help spur innovation […]

Naveena Yanamala, PhD, director of the Center of Innovation at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, has been appointed to the FDA’s Center for Devices and […]

Mark Rupp, MD, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, will step down from his role in 2024.  

Two in three physicians are concerned about artificial intelligence’s (AI) influence on diagnosis and treatment decisions, according to a recent survey. According to the Medscape […]

Despite a decline in healthcare venture funding, a report from CB Insights, found that there are still 122 healthcare unicorns, or companies with at least […]

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Tuesday he tested positive for COVID-19 and would miss votes this week in the Senate.  His office confirmed to The […]

California’s recent push for universal healthcare coverage has been a long time in the making. 

GE HealthCare reported revenues of $4.8 billion, 5% year-over-year growth, for the third quarter ending Sept. 30.

Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is expanding the use of a predictive artificial intelligence platform that allows the hospital to create a “digital twin” on […]

Cleveland Clinic is the latest health system to invest in drones that deliver prescription medications to patients’ homes. 

Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center, a Spokane, Wash.-based VA hospital that has struggled with the rollout of its Cerner EHR, was recognized by the VA as […]

On Oct. 30, President Joe Biden issued an executive order requesting the federal government’s health agencies to devise a strategy for overseeing AI with provisions […]

Rome (N.Y.) Health has named Nancy Levett as its new CIO and vice president. 

Disruptors are turning to virtual care offerings to make healthcare more affordable and accessible to consumers. 

Health systems’ labor costs skyrocketed over the last three years as hospitals relied on expensive contract labor during the pandemic, but marching down these expenses […]

Saum Sutaria, MD, CEO of Tenet Healthcare, mentioned at the beginning of the year the system’s strategy would focus on hiring and retention, and reduce […]

Organizers estimate as many as 4,500 pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens are participating in a three-day walkout that began Oct. […]

Tenet Healthcare CEO Saum Sutaria, MD, said the Dallas-based for-profit system is concerned about the “degree of denial activity that [they] see from some of the […]

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare said at the beginning of the year it would invest approximately $250 million annually into its ASC business, United Surgical Partners International.

Brad Bloemer was named CEO of Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould, the Paragould Daily Press reported.

There’s a disconnect between CEOs and chief marketing officers, and it could be costly, according to research McKinsey and Co. published Oct. 26. 

Pay for executives in healthcare includes numerous factors and has varied in recent years.

HHS proposed a new rule Oct 30 to disincentivize healthcare provider information blocking and is seeking public comment through Jan. 2, 2024, according to an […]

Conifer Health Solutions saw net operating revenues of $315 million in the third quarter of 2023, down from $333 million posted in the same period […]

Blackstone, a private equity firm, has inked a deal to purchase a 72.5 percent stake in Quality Care India — which operates  Care Hospitals —- […]

ProMedica Monroe (Mich.) Regional Hospital is using only bottled water and installed filters on some sinks and showers after officials found debris in the water, […]

Denver-based AdventHealth Porter temporarily suspended all services and closed its emergency department after the boiler went out, leaving the facility with no heat or hot […]

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Bosses can boomerang too — but that doesn’t mean they should, Bloomberg reported Oct. 26. 

A love of mornings might as well be a qualification for CEOs. 

Medicines shortages in Britain have risen to a new record high – leaving GPs struggling with extra workload and angry patients.

Medicines shortages in Britain have risen to a new record high – leaving GPs struggling with extra workload and angry patients.

Street medicine, the practice of caring for homeless people outdoors, is a burgeoning field — an unfortunate reality as America confronts a growing homelessness epidemic. But […]

Annually, about 5.5 million kennel cough cases are seen by the U.S. veterinarians. If you’ve recently noticed your dog coughing after drinking water, Kennel Cough […]