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Why employees leave jobs after a few months

To tangibly affect retention, employers should consider an increased focus on internal branding. 

IRS appealing Mayo Clinic's win in $11.5M tax dispute

The Internal Revenue Service filed an appeal Sept. 1 seeking to overturn a 2022 ruling that required the agency to repay $11.5 million to Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.

A blind spot in healthcare quality work

With quality and safety underpinning nearly every aspect of healthcare work, one might assume hospitals and health systems have well-established ways of finding out what their total investments in quality and safety look like. Not so, leaders told Beck…

How Mayo uses AI for heart disease

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic created an AI algorithm that can take an ECG from an Apple Watch and predict if a patient has a low ejection fraction. 

COVID-19, flu and RSV: What to know as fall begins

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 facing headwinds

Cerner is facing some “near-term headwinds” as its parent company Oracle looks to move the EHR vendor to the cloud. 

Meta expands VR tech to healthcare

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.

UNC gets $3.7M to start center for virtual care equity

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched a $3.7 million center aiming to make virtual care available to all.

Epic inks EHR deals with 2 health systems

EHR vendor Epic Systems has added two new large health systems to its portfolio — Pittsburgh-based UPMC and Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health. 

Man charged in connection with Scripps Health ransomware attack

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.