Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

Many finance teams have already pointed AI at the routine work — accelerating analysis, automating mundane tasks. While that progress is meaningful, it is also the smaller opportunity. The larger change is where finance spends its attention. When emerging trends…

Financial wellbeing isn’t adjacent to patient care, it’s embedded in it. A patient’s financial instability can predict recovery as powerfully as medication adherence, while a serious illness or forced early retirement can trigger a cascade of financial consequences that lasts…

Hospitals are at an inflection point. Today’s ED boarding, workforce shortages, and rising length-of-stay pressures can’t be solved by yesterday’s tools. Inpatient leaders are expected to deliver safe, predictable care amid bottlenecks that shift by the hour — a challenge…

AI is already reshaping behavioral health care, from clinical documentation and scheduling to workforce and operational decisions. But as adoption accelerates, so do the stakes: patient privacy, informed consent, clinical oversight and the therapeutic relationship itself. The organizations getting this…

Operating rooms are a hospital’s performance engine — yet idle rooms, late starts, staffing scrambles, and preventable cancellations still steal capacity and strain teams. With surgical demand rising and resources tight, perioperative leaders are expected to deliver fuller, more predictable…

Infusion centers sit at the heart of oncology and outpatient care — and demand is rising fast. But daily variability, staffing constraints, cancellations, add-ons, and pharmacy delays make it hard to balance access, safety, and efficiency. As volumes grow, infusion…

At Seattle Children’s, approximately 94% of specialty referrals arrive by fax. That means staff process more than 10,000 referrals each month across 39 specialty clinics. Before a patient can be scheduled or seen, staff must review each referral, identify missing…

Robotic-assisted joint reconstruction has reshaped how surgeons plan and perform total joint procedures. Most of the attention goes to implant positioning and surgical precision. Far less goes to the operating room that has to support those procedures day after day.…

Picture an inpatient room where the bedside nurse, virtual clinician, patient and operational leader are connected through a unified care environment, with virtual nursing extending the care team, AI-assisted safety monitoring supporting patients and clinicians, and digital technologies creating a…