At the beginning of 2022, Becker’s named six gastroenterology device companies to watch. Here is what they have been up to this year.
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Rush Health taps medical director of value-based care
Chicago-based Rush Health has appointed Garth Walker, MD, as its medical director of value-based care.
5 health systems win pharmacy services awards
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists bestowed five health systems with “best practices” awards in early December.
Iowa hospital taps interim CFO
Hamburg, Iowa-based George C. Grape Community Hospital has named Mike Anderson interim CFO.
MaineHealth promotes hospital president to regional president
Portland-based MaineHealth has promoted Andrea Patstone to regional president of its Coastal Region the Sun Journal reported Dec. 28.
The COVID-19 treatment landscape
After virus mutations spurred the FDA to yank Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 drug from the market, public health experts told Becker’s their predictions for the future of COVID-19 treatments.
6 stats on violence against nurses
Threats and attacks toward nurses and other healthcare workers have become commonplace. In response, the medical community has issued growing calls to Congress to pass legislation to mitigate workplace violence against healthcare workers.
Nurses must go beyond basic training on privacy compliance, HIPAA Journal says
Basic HIPAA training and adhering to their hospital’s own privacy compliance guidelines may not be enough to ensure nurses are consistently compliant, suggests a Dec. 27 HIPAA Journal report.
Baptist Health suffers $227M loss as expenses rise and investment values slump
Losses on investment, costs associated with converting to the Epic electronic health records system, and excess labor expenses dragged Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health to an overall loss of over $227 million in fiscal 2022. Much of that loss was…
28% of cardiologists suffer from mental health conditions: study
About 28 percent of 5,931 cardiologists surveyed by the American College of Cardiology reported suffering from a mental health condition, according to a Dec. 28 study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
