Advocate Aurora Health, now part of Advocate Health, plans to sell a remote patient monitoring company it acquired for $290.7 million.
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Nurses respond to noncompete ban
Contract provisions that stick nurses with the cost of training programs if they leave or are terminated before their contracts are up will largely be prohibited under the Federal Trade Commission’s April 23 ruling to ban noncompete agreements — a deci…
Mass General Brigham: Generative AI not 'best of both worlds' yet
More than half of patient portal messages written by artificial intelligence did not require any further editing, but the messages that did posed a risk to patients, according to Mass General Brigham researchers.
Tenet Healthcare must face Facebook lawsuit
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has to face a class-action lawsuit claiming its patient portal shared data with Facebook and other third-party companies, Bloomberg Law reported.
NYU Langone performs 1st-ever heart pump, pig kidney transplant surgery
New York City-based NYU Langone Health performed the first combined mechanical heart pump and organ transplant surgery and implanted the second gene-edited pig kidney in the world.
Epic says it rarely loses customers
EHR vendor Epic Systems broke ground on its newest campus and is continuing to grow its workforce and customers, The Cap Times reported April 25.
FTC head raises alarm over algorithm-driven healthcare price fixing
Lina Khan, head of the Federal Trade Commission, cautioned about the risk of healthcare price fixing driven by advancements in technology, PYMNTS reported April 24.
FDA approves treatment for uncomplicated UTIs
The FDA approved the first new antibiotic for urinary tract infections in two decades.
Optum shutting down telehealth business
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Virtual Care is shutting down, Endpoints News reported April 24.
Franciscan Health taps new CFO for 2 Indiana hospitals
Justin Kats was named CFO of Fransciscan Health Crown Point (Ind.) and Franciscan Health Michigan City (Ind.), both part of Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health, effective April 8.
