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Senator urges Google to provide more clarity on its medical AI

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia sent a letter to Google executives on Aug. 8 expressing concerns about Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot created by the company that is currently being used and tested by hospitals and health systems including Rochester, Minn.-base…

Atlantic Health System emergency department expansion underway

The expansion and modernization project at Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center Sameth Emergency Department is on schedule and expected to be completed in 2024. 

Children's Hospital Los Angeles looks to machine learning to improve ventilator outcomes

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are working to understand how a condition that can be difficult to spot, known as patient-ventilator asynchrony — PVA for short — may affect children who need ventilator support. The research is an area th…

MIT, Dana Farber AI could solve cancers of unknown origin

An AI-powered machine learning tool may allow physicians to better identify origins in enigmatic cancers, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. 

Minnesota hospital to close long-term care facility after 60 years

Northfield (Minn.) Hospital will close its 40-bed, long-term care center this October due to staffing and financial challenges, according to an Aug. 7 news release.

St. Jude taps chief nursing executive, senior vice president

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.- has named Sarah Currie,MSN, RN, as its new senior vice president and chief nursing executive, according to an Aug. 7 news release. 

Pipeline Health opens inpatient behavioral health unit in LA area

El Segundo, Calif.-based Pipeline Health is welcoming its first patients to a new inpatient behavioral health unit at its Coast Plaza Hospital in Norwalk in Los Angeles county.

Patient rooms at Arkansas hospital reach uncomfortable temperatures amid heat wave

HVAC units at Hot Springs, Ark.-based National Park Medical Center are working overtime amid an ongoing heat wave, leading to uncomfortable temperatures in some areas of the facility. In response, the hospital has had to move some patients to cooler ro…

12 recent RCM mergers and acquisitions

Here are 12 revenue cycle management mergers, acquisitions and partnerships reported by or shared with Becker’s in 2023:

Cincinnati Children's CEO on the hospital's 'relentless' pursuit to improve

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s No. 1 spot on a national ranking doesn’t mean the work is done, according to its leader.