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How this hospital upped safety reporting 50%, per its CEO

Hospital culture can prevent unnecessary medical errors, yet most hospitals are slow to adopt a framework that prevents adverse events, Christine Schuster, RN, president and CEO of Concord, Mass.-based Emerson Health, wrote in an opinion piece publishe…

Why more CIOs are becoming CEOs

More and more IT chiefs are becoming CEOs as digital transformation has become foundational to many companies’ growth, CIO reported June 26.

Patient experience is finally recovering. Is your organization ready?

At the close of 2021, I wrote that we were in a patient experience crisis. With the pandemic grinding on and omicron surges hitting most of us, the outlook was grim. My colleagues and I had never seen patient experience metrics drop so rapidly, and thi…

12 recent hospital lawsuits, settlements

From NYU Langone suing Northwell Health over the shade of purple it used in its advertising campaign, to Ascension facing a lawsuit for allegedly taking employees’ fingerprints without consent, here are 12 hospital lawsuits and settlements Becker’s has…

Epic in the last 30 days

From putting hospitals and health systems on its noncompete list to having Beacon be listed as one of the best oncology EHRs, here are five updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in June:

4 tips to help nurses land their dream position 

Nurses who are considering a career move — whether due to nursing-patient-ratios, burnout or even that they’ve found that bedside nursing is not bringing them the joy it once did — have options other than leaving the profession entirely. 

California officials deny Stanford affiliate's correction plan over PICU issues

A May 16 corrective action plan submitted by John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., a Stanford Medicine affiliate, was denied by the Department of Health Care Services after finding that “not all of John Muir Health’s proposed plans of corre…

Top 10 health and medical professionals most likely to work from home

Medical records technicians are the healthcare professionals who are most likely to work remotely, with more than a third of them not having to come into the office, The New York Times reported June 26.

Report: Amazon Clinic delaying rollout after privacy concerns raised

Amazon has delayed the rollout of its virtual care service after lawmakers expressed concerns about its privacy practices, Politico reported.

BJC, Saint Luke's merger could give system 'upper hand' with insurers

The planned merger between St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare and Kansas City, Mo.-based Saint Luke’s Health System could give the two systems huge “negotiating power” with insurers, according to analysts, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported June 25.