Infectious disease threats are growing and can have fatal consequences for patients and the public.
Category: ROOT
Epic vs. Cerner: EHR market share
EHR vendor Epic Systems continues to be the leader in the EHR hospital market share, with 83 hospitals joining its network in 2022, compared to Oracle Cerner, which only added 22.
Where CVS, Walmart, Kaiser, Target rank in market share for retail clinics
Retail clinics have exploded in popularity in the past five years, as health systems and pharmacy giants like CVS Health continue to open them, a new report from Definitive Healthcare found.
AdventHealth: Test closes gap in race to detect brain-eating amoeba
AdventHealth’s Rapid Amoeba PCR test, which can confirm a brain-eating amoeba infection in as little as three hours, is a “game changer” and could mean the difference between life and death for patients, Jose Alexander, MD, clinical microbiologist and …
Commonwealth Health hospital to end labor, delivery services
Commonwealth Health’s Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital will no longer provide planned inpatient labor and delivery services, effective July 31.
Cleveland Clinic suffers patient data breach
Cleveland Clinic, a health system with several ASC and endoscopy center affiliates, has filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Massachusetts, according to a May 30 report from JDSupra.
Heart attacks prematurely age the brain, Johns Hopkins Medicine study finds
Having a heart attack can be directly associated with a drop in cognitive abilities, according to a Johns Hopkins Medicine study published May 30 in JAMA Neurology.
How UCLA Health, Cedars-Sinai are integrating more AI into clinical workflows
UCLA Health, Cedars-Sinai and more are accelerating their adoption of artificial intelligence to help them interpret data, build predictive models, streamline tasks and procedures, and to enhance communication with patients.
Hackensack Meridian hospital names CFO
Todd Huffman has been appointed CFO for Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center in Glen Ridge, N.J., and Ardent Health Service’s New Jersey market, which includes two hospitals and two medical groups totaling more than 140 physicians and advanc…
Wisconsin hospital notifies patients of unauthorized access to PHI
Lancaster, Wis.-based Grant Regional Health Center is notifying 4,135 patients that some of their protected health information may have been compromised when an unauthorized party accessed one of its employee email accounts.
