Medical City Lewisville (Texas) hospital named Whitney Bendel its new CFO.
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7 organizations that got USDA grants for EHR upgrades
The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave out grants Oct. 12 to four health systems and three other organizations to make EHR improvements as part of a $110 million spending package to boost rural healthcare.
A new name joins Forbes’ growing list of healthcare billionaires
The number of healthcare billionaires in the U.S. has grown from 29 to 30 as of Oct. 14, according to Forbes’ real-time net worth tracker.
RWJBarnabas boosts project productivity 43% with Epic implementation plan
West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health has received a perfect score from EHR vendor Epic for its EHR implementation project.
Penn State gets $600K to explore ‘deep learning’ for healthcare data
University Park, Pa.-based Penn State University has received a $599,883 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop machine learning algorithms that can better analyze messy healthcare data.
New York to create $1.6B health and sciences hub
New York City and the state of New York are planning to turn a City University of New York campus in Kips Bay into a health and science hub, Spectrum News NY1 reported Oct. 13.
Michigan health systems partner for open-heart surgery operating room
Wyoming, Mich.-based UM Health-West and Livonia-Mich.-based Trinity Health partnered to create an open-heart surgery operating room in the Grand Rapids, Mich., area, MLive reported Oct. 13.
Workers are returning to the office the most in these US metro areas
More than 47 percent of U.S. workers have returned to the office, up from a low of 14.6 percent early in the pandemic, security company Kastle Systems found.
St. Jude, Dana-Farber, MIT, Harvard partner on $60M cancer research
Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are partnering with Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, Mass., to jointly invest more than $60 million…
Missouri patient visitation law could cost hospitals $20.9M, mostly for gowns, masks
A Missouri law barring hospitals from limiting patient visits is 11 times more expensive than early projections predicted, and the cost of personal protective equipment is driving the expense, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Oct. 12.
