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Trends clinical leaders, hospital execs say will shape healthcare beyond 2024
As hospitals face new pressures and begin aligning with their 2024 strategic plans, the key focuses of many hospital leaders are the same: how AI will shape healthcare, finding workflow solutions, recruiting and retaining nurses, and combating workplac…
Email extortion data breach affects 2.4 million patients; FBI seeks victims
Nearly 2.4 million patients of Oklahoma City-based Integris Health were caught up in a data breach where the alleged hackers sent extortion emails directly to some of them.
Boston Medical Center Health System taps inaugural chiefs
Boston Medical Center Health System on Feb. 14 announced its first chief officers for strategy, transformation and digital information.
Feds target former CFO in alleged cardiac kickback scheme
The Department of Justice has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Rick Nassenstein, former CFO, president and co-owner of Cardiac Imaging, which provides mobile cardiac positron emission tomography scans.
HCA shuffles C-suite to boost digital strategy
The CIO and innovation chief of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare will soon report directly to the CEO, in realignment meant to emphasize the 186-hospital system’s tech focus.
Why Trinity Health is spending $800M on Epic
Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health is nearly three-fourths of the way through an $800 million Epic rollout that is bringing the EHR to 101 hospitals.
HCA files response to North Carolina's lawsuit
HCA Healthcare has filed a motion with the North Carolina Business Court, asking it to dismiss claims from the North Carolina attorney general that the for-profit hospital operator violated its 2019 asset purchase agreement for Asheville, N.C.-based Mi…
Why the 'try-everything tactic' is gaining momentum in cancer care
The “try-everything tactic” appears to bring meaningful improvements in some cancer patients, but the approach comes with caveats, according to a Feb. 14 article in Nature.
The workforce challenges that are top of mind for hospital CEOs
In January, the American College of Healthcare Executives released its annual survey of top issues confronting hospitals, and hospital CEOs ranked workforce challenges as their No. 1 concern in 2023.
