Healthcare leaders are closely watching respiratory virus trends heading into fall. Overall, there is a healthy dose of optimism that the U.S. won’t see the same levels of severe disease that strained hospitals nationwide last year, though it’s still t…
Cerner is facing some “near-term headwinds” as its parent company Oracle looks to move the EHR vendor to the cloud.
Dozens of hospitals and health systems across the country are using Meta’s virtual reality headsets to train clinicians on complex procedures, CNBC reported Sept. 9.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched a $3.7 million center aiming to make virtual care available to all.
EHR vendor Epic Systems has added two new large health systems to its portfolio — Pittsburgh-based UPMC and Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health.
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of California has charged a man in connection to the May 1, 2021, San Diego-based Scripps Health ransomware attack that affected 1.2 million patients.
Despite tight operating margins, 80 percent of healthcare organizations increased their technology spending in the past year and three-quarters expect that growth to continue, KLAS Research and Bain & Co. reported Sept. 12.
Despite the nationwide healthcare staffing shortage and the industry still recovering from a global pandemic, 92.1 percent of Magnet-certified hospitals have achieved recertification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center since 2020.
When EHR systems are more difficult to use, the technology can be less likely to catch medical errors, according to research from University of Utah Health.
Labor costs, surging interest rates and increased scrutiny are cooling private equity firms’ appetite to acquire financially struggling hospitals, Bloomberg reported Sept. 12.
