Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to ONC data.

Between 2006 and 2016, 547,821 inpatient hospitalizations in the U.S. were for a firearm injury, according to a new database from the Rand Corp., a healthcare policy think tank.

Expansion of Medicaid benefits has reduced uncompensated care costs, a study published in Medical Care Research and Review shows.

CVS Health is planning to sell individual insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act in up to eight states in 2022, according to Forbes. The chosen states have not been disclosed.

The U.S. will see a drastic decrease in new COVID-19 cases by July if vaccination rates remain high and Americans maintain public health measures such as masking and social-distancing, the CDC forecasted in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published May 5.

Elmhurst (Ill.) Hospital administered ivermectin to a comatose COVID-19 patient May 3 after a judge's order to do so, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Nurses Week 2021 starts May 6. Here are 20 companies offering nurses freebies or discounts in recognition, as listed by USA Today and Delish. 

From their thoughts on crafting an authentic brand voice to combating COVID-19 misinformation to executing a strong digital front door strategy, here are six key quotes about healthcare marketing and communications that hospital executives recently shared with Becker's Hospital Review:

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the House Committee on Appropriations to allocate more funding to fight antibiotic resistance on a federal level.

In response to a global shortage of midwives, the World Health Organization is calling for more investments in the profession, saying that it could save 4.3 million lives each year. 

Shifts away from physician-owned practices continued in 2020, with the share of physicians in private practices dropping below 50 percent for the first time since the American Medical Association began measuring the metric in 2012, according to the latest analysis released May 5 by the AMA.

Cerner reported $172.3 million in net earnings for the first quarter of 2021, up 17 percent from $147.2 million during the same period last year. 

Pfizer said May 4 that it will file for full FDA-approval of its COVID-19 vaccine by the end of this month. But what does full approval mean, and will it change the vaccine rollout? 

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released an implementation plan May 4 for the U.S. government, recommending it provide high-quality primary care to all Americans. 

Improve performance measures or face tighter regulations, lawmakers warned organ procurement groups during a May 4 hearing, The Washington Post reports.

Pfizer plans to apply in September for emergency authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine to be given to children between the ages of 2 and 11, the drugmaker said May 4, according to The New York Times.

The U.S. will export 10 percent of all COVID-19 vaccines produced for domestic use by July 4, White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt announced via Twitter May 4.

Artificial intelligence is viewed as innovative technology that simplifies hard or tedious tasks. Yet, the work of the people who support AI by doing the behind-the-scenes labor is often overlooked, according to a May 4 report by the Cambridge, Mass.-based MIT Sloan School of Management.

Scripps Health websites are still down after a May 1 cyberattack, and patients are turning to Facebook to see if their appointments and surgeries are still on. 

Burnout in healthcare employees has been one of the most disruptive forces in hospitals as front-line employees battle the COVID-19 pandemic.