A Tennessee physician was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined more than $1 million after being convicted of over a dozen felony healthcare fraud charges.
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What 5 hospitals are paying their Epic talent
Health systems in New York and California are seeking EHR talent with a posted salary of more than $100,000.
Some physicians optimistic hospitals won't see 'tripledemic' repeat
Despite the emergence of the latest COVID-19 mutation-heavy variant, BA.2.86, and a recent uptick in hospital admissions due to the virus, some clinicians are still optimistic that this fall and winter will not become a ‘tripledemic’ repeat.
Talent drain a top risk for healthcare, executives say
Amid staffing challenges, finding and keeping workforce talent is a top risk in healthcare, according to a PwC August Pulse Survey.
Top 7 broken health IT promises, per KLAS
While the vast majority of healthcare organizations say their IT vendors keep all their promises, nearly a quarter say they sometimes break them, KLAS Research reported.
How Amazon, Google, Microsoft are working with health systems
Hospitals and health systems continue to partner with Big Tech companies to further their digital transformations. Here are nine of those collaborations Becker’s reported on in the past month.
Companies lean into 'quiet cutting'
Companies are avoiding hard layoffs but still cutting jobs by reassigning employees to different roles — a trend dubbed “quiet cutting,” The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 27.
VA CIO 'cautiously optimistic' about Cerner rollout
Kurt DelBene, CIO of the Department of Veterans Affairs, said despite the troubles the department has had with its $16 billion Oracle Cerner EHR rollout, he is still “cautiously optimistic” about it, FedScoop reported Aug. 25.
10 hardest nurse practitioner specialties
Adult acute care nurse practitioner is the hardest nurse practitioner specialty, according to Nursing Process.
Hospital labor, supply expenses drop (but are still too high)
Labor and supply expenses for hospitals dropped from June to July, but are still much higher than they were pre-pandemic, according to Kaufman Hall’s August National Hospital Flash Report released Aug. 28.
