Five people were taken to the hospital after a Syracuse (N.Y.) Fire Department ambulance crashed into an SUV April 5, informnny.com reported.

Best Buy is laying off Geek Squad tech-support employees at the same time the company is focusing on healthcare, The Verge reported.

Leaders from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs told Becker's its use of immersive technology such as virtual reality can inform health systems around the country.

Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine physicians have been getting assistance with telehealth visits from an unlikely but iconic source: Barbie.

A recent study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, both based in Boston, found only 43% of cancer drugs granted accelerated FDA approval demonstrated clinical benefit in confirmatory trials.

Kettering (Ohio) Health has opened an innovation center focused on artificial intelligence and digital health.

A hacking gang claims it nabbed data on several other payers in the cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare, CyberScoop reported.

Fitch Ratings recently revised Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's outlook from stable to positive. 

The board overseeing Hollister, Calif.-based Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital is appealing a California judge's ruling that found the hospital ineligible to remain in Chapter 9 bankruptcy. 

Workers used to aim to make themselves indispensable in order to survive layoffs. Now, many say there's no such thing, The Wall Street Journal reported April 3. 

While the healthcare industry continues to deal with ongoing physician shortages and a mixture of hospital margins, many health systems are investing more into their healthcare workforce to help reduce and improve their total expenses and operating margins. 

The CDC is warning clinicians and state health departments to watch for bird flu cases after a Texas resident was infected, presumably from dairy cattle.

In two years, Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare has expanded virtual nursing to 41% of its beds without adding a single new staff member.

Over the last few months, Dallas-based Steward Health Care has been subject to increased scrutiny regarding the health system's troubled finances and the status of its 33 hospitals across eight states. 

 The Joint Commission has recently published a list of the most compliance standards that were most challenging for hospitals to meet in 2023, tweaked its hospital survey process and named an inaugural "president's fellow." 

Freestanding emergency departments are becoming more prominent as health systems bolster their outpatient strategies, but emergency departments at some hospitals are disappearing.

Nearly two-thirds of registered nurses practicing in the U.S. still had student debt as of 2021, according to the most recent federal data available. 

When it comes to working from home, some states provide better conditions for the practice than others, according to a WalletHub ranking released April 8. 

The board of governors for De Queen, Ark.-based Sevier County Medical Center has declined to renew the contract with hospital President and CEO Lori House, Steve Cole, EdD, chair of the board, confirmed to Becker's.

Patient portal messages and emails have become a problem contributing to long work hours for clinicians and unsatisfied patients.