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7 health systems seeking cybersecurity talent

Below are seven hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking cybersecurity talent.

Why Trinity invested big in an Epic-powered platform

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health made a huge investment in a platform dubbed TogetherCare, powered by Epic, and for good reason.

Antibiotics tied to rare, serious drug-related skin reactions: study

Antibiotic use has been linked to two rare but painful and sometimes deadly skin reactions: Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis, a new study reports.

Viewpoint: ICU physician details what COVID front lines are like 3 years in

Fewer COVID cases, more methodical treatments and less stress are just a few things one ICU physician reports now that the world is entering year three of the pandemic and more is known about the virus.

Protection after COVID-19 infection on par with vaccination, large study finds

A new study published in The Lancet found immunity acquired from a COVID-19 infection reduced the risk of hospitalization and death from reinfection at levels that are “at least as high, if not higher,” than two vaccine doses. Still, experts caution va…

Hospital COOs must 'go beyond what they've always done' to recruit employees, 1 leader says

According to one COO, the challenge of recruiting and retaining hospital employees goes beyond the emergency room and other clinical areas buckling under the current nursing shortage. 

CHI Health settles suit over nurses' on-call pay

Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health agreed to pay $800,000 in a class-action lawsuit filed by its nurses over remote, on-call work they allegedly performed without proper compensation, Omaha World-Herald reported Feb. 16.

Nurse practitioners often an untapped solution to workforce shortages, AANP president says 

Hospital beds are nearly full and waiting times in emergency departments across the U.S. are often untenable. However, April Kapu, DNP, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, recently told Becker’s that nurse practitioners can pr…

GE recalls body scanners over risk of trapping, crushing patients 

GE HealthCare issued a recall of 688 of its Nuclear Medicine 600/800 Series Systems after identifying an issue that could lead to the machine’s detector falling and trapping or crushing a patient. In a Feb. 15 statement, the FDA classified this as a Cl…

University Hospitals, healthcare data company collaborate to tackle disparities, value-based care, Alzheimer's

Cleveland-based University Hospitals is collaborating with healthcare data company Premier Inc. to use artificial intelligence to improve value-based care, reduce disparities and boost chronic disease care.