Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

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…

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.…

Risk adjustment has traditionally lived downstream of the patient visit, reconstructed after the fact through chart review, queries and coding. This session explores what changes when documentation integrity becomes part of the clinical conversation itself, not a separate process layered…

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…

Healthcare workforce strategy has become an enterprise issue. As healthcare organizations rely on increasingly varied workforce models, the external contracting infrastructure supporting that workforce often remains fragmented across labor categories, facilities, agencies, contracts, and regional labor markets, raising a question…

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…