Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest health system, continues to embrace artificial intelligence to improve its clinical and administrative operations.
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Physicians more likely to give Black women unnecessary C-sections: Study
To fill operating rooms and financial incentives, obstetricians are often performing unneeded cesarean sections on Black women, according to researchers who analyzed about 1 million births across 68 New Jersey hospitals.
Texas hospital names CEO
Robert Nelson, BSN, RN, was named CEO of Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, Texas.
Illinois health system invests in $25M round for AI-driven clinical tool
Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare participated in a $25 million growth financing round for Pieces Technologies, a healthcare AI research and development firm offering a clinical generative AI solution.
36 health systems ranked by Q2 revenue
The monthly operating margin index for hospitals was 3.8% in July, up from 3.3% in June, indicating the beginning of a slow and sustained recovery for nonprofit hospital systems, according to Kaufman Hall.
3 healthcare takeaways from the Trump-Harris debate
Immigration and the economy emerged as major topics during the 90-minute presidential debate Sept. 10 between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. However, the candidates spent some of the time on two healthcare topics: abort…
When clinicians become cancer patients
More people younger than 50 are getting cancer, and clinicians are not immune to this trend.
Kaiser Permanente, CommonSpirit Health to share EHR in Colorado
Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, Calif., and Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health have expanded their partnership through a long-term agreement in Colorado, which will provide both organizations with a fully integrated EHR system.
UNC Health satellite campus files plan for new $462M hospital
Raleigh-based UNC Health Rex, a satellite campus part of Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health, has filed a certificate of need application to build a hospital in Wake Forest, N.C., for $462.1 million, a spokesperson for UNC Health told Becker’s Sept. 11….
Hospital wage inflation slows for some
Hospital wage inflation is slowing, with hourly wage growth averaging 3% in 2024, compared to 4.2% in 2023, according to a Sept. 9 Fitch Ratings report.
