A ChatGPT update released March 14 has been stunning physicians with its ability to deliver sound medical advice, The New York Times reported.

Members of UE Local 1004 are set to strike March 20 at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif., radio station KHTS reported.

The following health system and hospital IT executive appointments have been reported by Becker's since March 6:

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is the first in the nation to receive the American College of Surgeons' Level I Specialty Children's Center in Oncology designation.

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health filed a data breach notice with the Massachusetts attorney general March 9 after it learned that some patient information was compromised as a result of unauthorized access, JDSupra reported March 14.  

The following hospital and health system CFOs left their roles or shared plans to leave between March 7 and March 15, Becker's reported. 

The following hospital and health system CEO moves have recently been reported by Becker's:

Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare is facing similar financial challenges to multiple health and hospital systems across the country and recently unveiled its Project Bedrock plans to mitigate some of those challenges. Becker's took the opportunity to talk with ChristianaCare's CFO, Rob McMurray, about the initiative and other focus areas for the system.

French digital health startup Nabla is getting in on the GPT craze as it launches Copilot, a GPT-3 based tool used as a Chrome extension to transcribe patient conversations with clinicians, TechCrunch reported March 14.

NYC Health + Hospitals is planning to spend $14 million to contract with Coordinated Behavioral Care, a nonprofit group of behavioral health organizations, to help patients without housing find homes, Politico reported March 14.

Biotech startup Science, a competitor with Elon Musk's Neuralink, launched Science Foundry, a platform allowing companies to use Science's tools to build medical devices, CNBC reported March 13.

More than a dozen hospital mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations and partnerships were unwound or called off throughout the past 14 months.

Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health continues to enjoy a "AA-" rating on various bonds amid a healthy financial profile and robust market share in a competitive region, S&P Global said March 10.

Billboards along California roadways are calling for more oversight of healthcare mergers, the Public News Service reported March 14. 

Former health system CIO Ray Gensinger, MD, has joined health tech company Tegria as senior vice president and chief medical officer.

As hospitals and health systems adapt to their ever-changing environment, their C-suites must also evolve to meet new demands. 

Tax exemptions for nonprofit hospitals amounted to $27.6 billion in value for 2020, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. 

A Lehigh Valley Health Network patient whose nude photos were posted to the dark web by a Russian ransomware gang has sued the Allentown, Pa.-based health system, The (Allentown) Morning Call reported.

Minnesota's death rate increased 17 percent during the first year of the pandemic, driven by both COVID-19 and other preventable deaths of despair from overdoses, alcohol use and malnutrition, according to new findings from researchers at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic. 

Drug shortages can happen for a plethora of reasons, but sometimes there's a "gap in knowledge" between manufacturers and regulatory agencies, according to FDA expert Emily Thakur.