Mobile, Ala.-based USA Health reduced its sepsis mortality rate by 16.5 percent after implementing new Oracle Cerner EHR workflows and alerts algorithms.
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Dr. Tom Takubo named to WVU Health System post
Morgantown, W.V.-based West Virginia University Health System named Tom Takubo, DO, its executive vice president of provider relations, effective Oct. 31.
Florida hospitals prepare for Hurricane Ian
Hospitals in Florida are preparing for the impact of Hurricane Ian this week, according to a Sept. 28 report from the Nashville Business Journal.
13 recent digital health investments
Despite a turbulent market for digital health companies, investors continue to pour money into promising health tech ideas.
38% of US workers say their employers’ claims about workplace culture don’t match reality
Four out of 10 Americans, or 38 percent, believe there is a significant difference between the culture their workplace claims to have and reality.
69% of physicians want a single-payer system
Sixty-nine percent of physicians would like some form of a single-payer system, according to Medscape’s 2022 “Physicians Rate Healthcare Access Report.”
Fujifilm debuts newest ultrasound endoscope
Fujifilm has debuted its new endoscopic ultrasound endoscope, EG-74OUT, a convex ultrasonic endoscope for the upper gastrointestinal tract.
Autoimmune responses play major role in long COVID-19, study suggests
Patients with long COVID-19 symptoms are more likely to have autoimmune disease markers in their blood, a study published Sept. 22 in the European Respiratory Journal found.
‘Whenever there’s chaos, there’s opportunity,’ says Stanford Health Care chief data scientist Dr. Nigam Shah
The first supercomputer for artificial intelligence in medicine was developed at Stanford University in the early 1970s. So it makes sense that the health system affiliated with the university recently named its inaugural chief data scientist to integr…
State approves Mass General Brigham’s plan to cut spending by $128M
The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission voted to approve the performance improvement plan submitted by Mass General Brigham, in which the provider plans to cut spending by $127.8 million, according to a Sept. 27 news release from the commission.
