Category: ROOT

Optum partner Northern Light's outlook revised to negative as weak operating results continue

Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health, which in January agreed to transfer 1,400 of its employees to health services company Optum, had its outlook downgraded to negative from stable amid weak operating results in recent years, S&P Global said Feb….

IT job openings at Northside, Emory and Novant

Top healthcare systems across the country are constantly looking to hire new IT talent.

Intel leads $20M funding round for AI-powered medication management company

Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of tech giant Intel, led a $20 million funding round for MDI Health, an artificial intelligence-powered medication management company.

OSF HealthCare's $250M venture capital arm: 6 things to know

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare has a venture capital arm that focuses on post-seed funding rounds for companies specializing in health IT, medical devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, and technology-enabled care solutions.

Physicians allege unsafe conditions at HCA hospital in Florida: roaches, bloody sinks and hanging wires

Roaches and unsanitary surgical instruments have physicians worried about patient safety at HCA Florida Bayonet Point in Hudson, a 290-bed facility owned by HCA Healthcare.

Cash-strapped Doylestown Health seeks to sell off major retirement home division

Doylestown (Pa.) Health, which is undergoing a strategic review as it battles to become more financially secure, said it is aiming to sell off a key asset in its 517-unit Pine Run retirement community.

Where is inflation hitting ASCs the hardest?

Inflation continues to be a pain point for ASCs, causing a rise in supply and energy costs making operations all the more difficult. 

Oregon community colleges could offer traditional BSN degrees, but some groups are wary

A bill passed in Oregon in 2019 may soon make it so community colleges can offer four-year traditional baccalaureate degrees, including a Bachelor of Science in nursing — but despite a national nursing shortage, some are not sure this effort is worthwh…

Stanford, UCSF researchers predict newborn health outcomes using AI, EHR data

Researchers from Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine have developed a machine learning algorithm that scans EHRs to predict health outcomes for newborns.

Harvard, Brigham and Women's identify potential targets for new antibiotics

Research from scientists at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston, have uncovered two families of proteins that may pave the way for the development of new antibiotics in the future.