A staffing platform that connects nurses to shifts in skilled nursing facilities and home health settings is expanding to offer hospital shifts. The platform, connectRN, has launched hospital staffing services in Tennessee and Florida, according to an …
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights said it has launched an investigation into a February IT security incident that occurred at Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare, WTXL Tallahassee reported April 10.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed a new rule aimed at improving patient safety and care equity for inpatient and long-term care hospitals that would “recognize homelessness as an indicator of increased resource utilization in …
More than 50 percent of hospital expenses are typically associated with labor costs, which have increased significantly over the last three years as health systems used contract labor to fill some of the many gaps caused by ongoing staffing shortages.&…
Little Rock-based Arkansas Children’s is launching a workforce app for nurses through a partnership with Elemeno Health.
Don Kleoppel, former chief security officer of Cerner, has recently joined health IT provider Greenway Health.
Hospital payrolls are increasing while average hourly earnings growth for employees has slowed — a sign the industry’s labor challenges may be easing, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings.
Tiffany Dover, RN, did not intend to become a figurehead of the anti-vaccine movement when she received her first shot via a livestream in 2020, but the internet had very different plans, NBC News reported April 10.
Epic doesn’t sunset its software because it believes in its updates and wants its clients to use them, founder and CEO Judy Faulkner wrote in a recent blog post.
The International Monetary Fund is projecting global economic growth to be 3 percent five years from now, the lowest medium-term growth projection since 1990, CNBC reported April 11.
