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Cleveland Clinic to outfit new $80M hospital with telehealth technology

Cleveland Clinic’s new $80 million hospital in Mentor, Ohio, will have telehealth technology installed in inpatient and outpatient rooms, which will allow patients to consult remotely with physicians from different locations, Ideastream Public Media re…

CDC recommends new RSV shots for older adults

The CDC advised older adults to receive a newly approved respiratory syncytial virus vaccine June 29 after a panel voted on a watered-down recommendation. 

7 recently completed hospital projects

From expansions to new hospitals, here are seven completed hospital projects Becker’s has reported since June 13:

Financial penalties increased hospitals' price transparency compliance: Study

Hospitals are more likely to comply with price transparency requirements when they face larger financial penalties for noncompliance, a study published June 29 in JAMA Network Open found. 

78 charged in sweeping $2.5B fraud scheme

The Justice Department has charged 78 individuals, including 24 physicians, for their alleged participation in a sweeping $2.5 billion telehealth, pharmaceutical and opioid distribution fraud scheme.

HCA makes 6 hospital, division executive changes

HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital operator based in Nashville, Tenn., made leadership changes at several of its hospitals and divisions in recent weeks.

7 RCM headlines to know from June

From HFMA naming its 2023 MAP Awards winners to an RCM firm closing that 489,830 patients were affected by a third-party data breach, here are seven revenue cycle management headlines to know from June: 

New subvariant is not cause for alarm, experts say

Health experts are cautiously monitoring EU.1.1, a new SARS-CoV-2 subvariant the CDC started tracking this week. So far, experts said they have not seen anything that raises red flags. 

'We're definitely not ready for Dr. ChatGPT': Hospital digital leaders' favorite generative AI platforms

Health system digital leaders told Becker’s they use different generative artificial intelligence programs depending on the situation, but “Dr. ChatGPT” hasn’t arrived just yet.

Physician group to buy, reopen Florida hospital that closed last year

Bonifay, Fla.-based Doctors Memorial Hospital plans to purchase Healthmark Regional Medical Center, a 50-bed hospital in Defuniak Springs, Fla., that closed in March 2022, mypanhandle.com reported June 28.