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'Best in KLAS' software and services vendors for healthcare
On Feb. 7, KLAS Research named the top companies for their software and services designed for healthcare.
Wisconsin medical center doubles labor and delivery beds amid area hospital closures
Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System is more than doubling the labor and delivery beds at its Marshfield Medical Center-Eau Claire (Wis.) to aid community needs amid recent hospital closures.
11 hospitals closing departments or ending services
A number of healthcare organizations have recently closed medical departments or ended services at facilities to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or address staffing shortages.
'We need to disrupt ourselves': Tampa General's CEO is all in on hospital-at-home expansion bill
Hospital at home programs cover only acute care patients, but that could change with a new bill introduced in the Senate.
Billings Clinic parts ways with anesthesiology group
Billings (Mont.) Clinic’s contract with Billings Anesthesiology expired Feb. 9, with the health system aiming to create its own fully staffed anesthesiology department, according to Montana’s News Leader.
Cleveland Clinic joins AI consortium
Cleveland Clinic is joining the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium.
CMS revises policy on texting patient orders
CMS updated its policy for clinical teams texting patient orders.
AdventHealth completes $660M Epic rollout
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, one of the nation’s largest health systems, recently completed its switch to an Epic EHR that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
US senators propose healthcare cybersecurity law
Two U.S. senators introduced a bill to combat the growing wave of healthcare cyberattacks.
HCA Mission Hospital submits correction plan to revoke immediate jeopardy status
HCA Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., has submitted a plan of correction to address deficiencies and remove its immediate jeopardy status, a CMS spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s Feb 8.
