Allscripts has changed its name to Veradigm.
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Cincinnati Children's names chief strategy officer
Oliver Rhine, a longtime leader at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, was promoted to senior vice president and chief strategy officer.
Excela, Butler finalize merger that creates $1B system
Butler (Pa.) Health System and Greensburg, Pa.-based Excela Health System have finalized their merger, creating a five-hospital system that will serve about 750,000 patients.
100 hospitals with the worst margins nationwide, ranked
Hundreds of hospitals in the U.S. are at immediate risk of closing, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.
Nurses' least rewarding part of the job + 5 more notes on career satisfaction
Nurses point to workplace politics as the least rewarding aspect of their job, according to Medscape’s 2022 report on nurse career satisfaction.
South Carolina hospital adds robot dietitian
Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center has instituted a robot dietitian that roams the hospital to provide nutrition counseling to patients, The Times and Democrat reported Jan. 2.
Sale of 2 Pipeline Health Chicago hospitals completed
El Segundo, Calif.-based Pipeline Health System has completed the sale of two Chicago-area hospitals as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, according to a Jan. 3 Wednesday Journal report.
Study: Healthcare ransomware attacks doubled in five years
The annual number of healthcare ransomware attacks more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, threatening patient safety and outcomes, a Dec. 29 study in JAMA Health Forum found.
Nearly 270,000 patients affected by data breach at Louisiana health system
Lake Charles (La.) Memorial Health System said an October data breach affected 269,752 patients, the organization told the HHS Office of Civil Rights.
Feds seek to rescind 'conscience' rule for healthcare workers
The Biden administration has proposed to partially rescind a blocked Trump-era rule that would have withheld federal funding from hospitals that require workers to perform any service they object to, such as abortions, sterilization, contraception and …
