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35% of 3rd-party breaches affect healthcare
Healthcare organizations experienced 35% of third-party breaches, according to a Feb. 28 report from Security Scorecard.
Weight loss drugs wrinkle economies worldwide
GLP-1s, such as Type 2 diabetes therapies Ozempic and Mounjaro and weight loss drug Wegovy, are expected to bulk up the U.S. economy as more Americans shed pounds.
Maryland hospital CEO agrees to restraining order after threat allegations
Scott Moran, MD, CEO of Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, a maximum-security forensic psychiatric hospital in Jessup, Md., agreed in court Feb. 28 to a restraining order prohibiting him from coming to Clifton as well as the state administrative offic…
'Be skeptical … but don't be cynical': How 4 hospitals use AI
Many hospital CEOs are finding new ways to use AI and encouraging colleagues to embrace positive changes.
Hospital staff experience workplace violence every 40 hours
Hospital staff members experience 1.17 aggressive events — verbal and/or physical — for every 40 hours worked, with more aggression events occurring when staff have significantly greater numbers of patients assigned to them, a recent study found.
Viewpoint: ED boarding has a solution, why haven't hospitals implemented it?
Emergency department boarding has a solution, but hospitals aren’t implementing it, according to Hashem Zikry, MD, a current emergency medicine physician at UCLA, and former chief resident in the emergency department at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
75% of healthcare professional foresee widespread AI adoption
Seventy-five percent of healthcare professionals say widespread AI adoption will happen within the next three years, a Feb. 27 report from Berkeley Research Group found.
Where Epic ranks in home health, per KLAS
Epic secured the title of Best in KLAS for health system-owned home health agencies in 2024, according to a Feb. 27 report from KLAS.
Penn Medicine puts $28M toward weapons detection systems
For many working in healthcare, violence is a daily, palpable issue. Solving the crisis will involve consistent coordination between multiple stakeholders, but it starts with employers getting serious about prevention, executives at the University of P…
Hospitals see uneven financials as margins dip
Hospital margins were down slightly month over month in January, but up to begin the year as compared to 2021 and 2022, according to Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report, released Feb. 28.
