The rate of wrong site, side, patient, procedure and implant events at ASCs reached 0.030 procedures per every 1,000 surgeries in the second quarter of 2022, up from 0.023 in the first quarter.
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10 hospitals seeking chief nursing officers
Below are 10 hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers.
Google Cloud to create algorithms that ‘make sense’ of unstructured oncology data
Google Cloud has partnered with COTA, a data and analytics company, to create algorithms that will extract and make sense of unstructured data from electronic health records.
Mercy to deploy a fleet of robots throughout hospitals in 2023
Mercy Hospital Jefferson has successfully piloted a fleet of robots to assist nurses with tasks such as delivering patient meals, linens and medications.
NIH awards Case Western $7.3M for cornea research
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Cleveland-based Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine with a $7.3 million research grant.
Cedars-Sinai reports $41M loss amid higher expenses, investment costs
Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai, which operates more than 300 locations including five hospitals in the greater Los Angeles area, said it recorded a net loss of $41 million in the third quarter amid ongoing increased expenses — mainly from labor and sup…
CVS, Intermountain invest in $90M funding round for virtual care clinic
CVS Health Ventures and Intermountain Ventures, the venture capital arm of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, have joined a $90 million series E funding round for virtual care provider Maven Clinic.
Iowa health system goes live with Meditech EHR
Floyd County Medical Center went live with the Meditech Expanse EHR system on Nov. 1.
Eli Lilly lost billions after fake Twitter account promotes free insulin
On Nov. 10, a verified Twitter account posed as Eli Lilly wrote in a viral tweet, “We are excited to announce insulin is free now.” By the next day, the drugmaker’s shares plunged by about $22 billion.
Commonwealth Health gets green light for Pennsylvania hospital merger
Commonwealth Health, part of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, on Nov. 13 was granted approval to merge Moses Taylor Hospital and Regional Hospital of Scranton (Pa.) under one license, according to The Times-Tribune.
