Today's Top 20 Healthcare News Articles
  1. ChatGPT, virtual nursing, remote monitoring: Top digital health trends so far in '23

    Generative artificial intelligence, virtual nursing and remote patient monitoring were among the biggest digital health trends of the first half of 2023, health system digital chiefs told Becker's.
  2. Clinician employment, by state

    Here are the latest employment numbers of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses and physicians who are not anesthesiologists, cardiologists, dermatologists, emergency medicine physicians, family medicine physicians, general internal medicine physicians, neurologists, obstetricians and gynecologists, or pathologists.
  3. MultiCare to lay off 200+ workers

    12-hosp MultiCare卫生系统ital organization based in Tacoma, Wash., will lay off 229 employees, or about 1 percent of its 23,000 staff members, including about two dozen leaders, as part of cost-cutting efforts, the health system said June 29.
  1. Alabama city in search of hospital partner for 'Riverwalk Village' development

    The city of Hoover, Ala., is in search of a hospital or medical partner for a new 90-acre health and wellness development.
  2. Healthcare costs to jump 7% in 2024: PwC

    Healthcare costs will increase by a projected 7 percent in 2024 as the healthcare industry continues to face high inflation, rising wages and other costs, which are compounded by workforce shortages, according to a report from the PwC Health Research Institute.
  3. Berkshire Health to reopen beds at campus, seek critical access designation

    Pittsfield, Mass.-based Berkshire Health Systems plans to relaunch its North Adams campus, which will involve applying for critical access hospital designation.
  4. Health IT vendor fined $75K for violating HIPAA

    HHS' Office for Civil Rights reached a settlement with iHealth Solutions, a software and services provider for healthcare providers based in Louisville, Ky., regarding violations of HIPAA privacy and security rules.

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  1. HHS to impose penalties of up to $1M for health data hoarding

    The Health and Human Services Department finalized a new rule stating health tech firms that hoard patient data could face large penalties, according to a June 28 report from Politico.
  2. Nonprofit healthcare out of intensive care but long road to recovery, S&P says

    The nonprofit healthcare sector could take at least two more years to recover to somewhere near pre-pandemic levels after the "rapid deterioration" in financial performance during much of 2022, S&P Global said in a June 28 midyear update.
  3. U of Tennessee Medical Center CEO to retire; successor named

    The University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville has tapped Keith Gray, MD, as its next president and CEO.
  4. Ballad taps AI to prevent medication errors

    Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health is using artificial intelligence to identify potential medication errors and improve pharmacy workflows, the health system said June 29.

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  1. How Joint Commission is working to boost rural healthcare access

    The Joint Commission is working to improve access to healthcare for people who reside in rural areas of the country by helping hospitals to better meet CMS requirements.
  2. Virginia hospital sees payoff from virtual nursing

    Stafford (Va.) Hospital is starting to see results from virtual nursing after implementing the program last month, The Free Lance-Star reported June 28.
  3. Amazon, CVS, Optum, Google: The top 11 healthcare disruptor moves in '23

    Big Tech and retail healthcare disruptors have had a busy start to 2023, buying up primary care companies and entering into big collaborations with health systems.
  4. 3 concerns about ChatGPT in healthcare

    For ChatGPT to become revolutionary in the healthcare industry, agencies need to create regulatory standards and guidelines for the use of AI models in medicine, as well as ensure that the models are trained on non-biased data, according to a June 28 article published in the Georgetown Journal of Internal Affairs.
  5. Epic completes first EHR exchange of structured genomic data

    EHR giant Epic completed the first EHR to EHR exchange of structured genomic data, according to Catherine Procknow, a senior software developer at Epic specializing in genomics, GenomeWeb reported June 28.
  6. Coding 'destroys everything': Former Mercy Health CEO on where healthcare reform should start

    Michael Connelly is the former CEO of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health, serving in that role between 1995 and 2017. The author of "The Journey's End," which highlights his frustration with billing issues at the end of life, Mr. Connelly spoke with Becker's about such frustrations and recommended possible solutions to billing and coding as a whole.
  7. Cleveland Clinic to outfit new $80M hospital with telehealth technology

    Cleveland Clinic's new $80 million hospital in Mentor, Ohio, will have telehealth technology installed in inpatient and outpatient rooms, which will allow patients to consult remotely with physicians from different locations, Ideastream Public Media reported June 28.
  8. CDC recommends new RSV shots for older adults

    The CDC advised older adults to receive a newly approved respiratory syncytial virus vaccine June 29 after a panel voted on a watered-down recommendation.
  9. 7 recently completed hospital projects

    From expansions to new hospitals, here are seven completed hospital projects Becker's has reported since June 13:

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