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With layoffs, Best Buy redirects resources to healthcare arm
Best Buy is laying off Geek Squad tech-support employees as the company shifts its focus to healthcare, The Verge reported.
Why the VA is leading on virtual reality
Leaders from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs told Becker’s its use of immersive technology such as virtual reality can inform health systems around the country.
Meet Michigan Medicine's new virtual care assistant: Barbie
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine physicians have been getting assistance with telehealth visits from an unlikely but iconic source: Barbie.
Only 43% of fast-tracked cancer drugs show benefits: Study
A recent study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, both based in Boston, found only 43% of cancer drugs granted accelerated FDA approval demonstrated clinical benefit in confirmatory trials.
Kettering Health opens innovation center
Kettering (Ohio) Health has opened an innovation center focused on artificial intelligence and digital health.
Hackers claim to obtain CVS, Medicare data in Change hack
A hacking gang claims it nabbed data on several other payers in the cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare, CyberScoop reported.
Fitch boosts Tenet's outlook
Fitch Ratings recently revised Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare’s outlook from stable to positive.
California hospital appeals court decision ending bankruptcy
The board overseeing Hollister, Calif.-based Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital is appealing a California judge’s ruling that found the hospital ineligible to remain in Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
The indispensability myth
Workers used to aim to make themselves indispensable in order to survive layoffs. Now, many say there’s no such thing, The Wall Street Journal reported April 3.
How labor costs are tracking at 30 health systems
While the healthcare industry continues to deal with ongoing physician shortages and a mixture of hospital margins, many health systems are investing more into their healthcare workforce to help reduce and improve their total expenses and operating mar…
