Commercially insured adults who sustain traumatic injuries are at increased risk of medical debt and bankruptcy, a study published in JAMA Health Forum found.
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Hacker gains access to NewYork-Presbyterian laptops through remote IT program
New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital said an unauthorized third party gained access to employee laptops, potentially exposing the data of about 12,000 patients.
Nebraska Medicine chief transformation officer promoted to COO
Michael Ash, MD, has been named executive vice president and COO of Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine.
Moderna, Pfizer to study potential long-term effect from COVID-19 vaccines
Moderna and Pfizer will soon launch trials to evaluate the long-term risk of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, with their COVID-19 vaccines, NBC News reported Nov. 12.
Number of wrong-site incidents increased in ASCs in 2022
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.
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…
