Category: Static

A new treatment for 'widow-maker' heart attacks

Researchers at the NCH Rooney Heart Institute in Naples, Fla., are leaning on a new therapeutic treatment for “widow-maker” heart attacks: supersaturated oxygen therapy.

Which primary care providers use EHRs the least?

Primary care providers who practice at community health centers spend less time in EHRs than counterparts who work elsewhere, a study in JAMA Network Open found.

Hospitals turn toward 'digital twins'

Health systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey have turned to electronic models, or “digital twins,” that allow clinicians to test the treatment on patients before enacting them at the bedside.

States with the most rural hospital closures

Since 2005, 104 rural hospitals have closed and more than 600 additional rural hospitals — 30% of all rural hospitals in the U.S. — are at risk of closing in the near future, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. 

Cerner in the last 30 days

Oracle Cerner, the nation’s second-largest EHR company by acute hospital share, had a busy past month signing hospitals and working on government contracts. Here are nine times Becker’s reported on the vendor in the last 30 days.

UK reports 1st human case of new swine flu strain

Health officials in the U.K. have confirmed the country’s first human case of a new swine flu variant typically found in pigs. 

California hospital resumes ambulance traffic 8 days after cyberattack

Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., has reinstated its EHR platform and resumed ambulance admissions after being hit by a cyberattack Nov. 9 that forced its systems offline, KPBS reported Nov. 27. 

Oracle, Google, Microsoft look to disrupt organ donation

Tech companies such as Oracle, Google and Microsoft are looking toward a potential new disruption in healthcare: organ donation, Bloomberg reported Nov. 27.

WHO names BA.2.86 variant of interest as it triples in spread

COVID-19 omicron strain BA.2.86 is now a variant of interest after nearly tripling in prevalence. 

Arkansas hospital names new CFO

Magnolia (Ark.) Regional Medical Center named Willam Van Noy its new CFO.