As they continue their push into healthcare, retail and tech companies have introduced a slew of consumer-centric health products into the market. Below, five hospital executives talks about some of their favorite products and why they might recommend them to patients:

Organizations without a scheduling-centric healthcare workforce management solution struggle to optimize providers' time and  maximize patient access to care. These organizations often lack real-time visibility into critical provider data and have uncertainty about their capacity to provide care. 

Biogen's Alzeheimer's drug Aduhelm could single-handedly represent 1 percent of all national healthcare expenditures by the mid-2020's, according to a report released June 16 by research nonprofit Altarum.

State employee health plans cite hospital prices as the primary driver of cost, but they rarely negotiate hospital prices during the efforts to curb costs, according to a recent report from Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

There are many different initiatives and strategies leaders can implement to better support nursing staff. 

The U.S. will invest more than $3 billion to develop antiviral drugs to treat COVID-19, HHS said June 17. 

Agile care models can support nurse workforce well-being and resilience, while also ensuring optimum quality care is delivered.

Hospitals are taking a cautious approach to rolling out aducanumab, Biogen's Alzheimer's drug sold under the brand name Aduhelm.

The number of hospitals and health systems requiring COVID-19 vaccination for employees continues to grow amid efforts to end the pandemic.

The delta coronavirus variant appears more commonly linked to a different range of symptoms than other variants, according to a large U.K. study cited by CNBC.

Former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush has created Zus Health, a new digital health platform that lets developers create tools and applications using a shared data record, according to a June 17 news release. 

Two Michigan health systems — Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health — have signed a letter of intent to create a new 22-hospital health system.

HHS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT have established an $80 million program to strengthen U.S. public health informatics and data science by diversifying the health IT workforce, they said June 17. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health will now permit two visitors per day for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the health system said June 16. 

Google is moving more than 130 employees within its health division into other areas of the company including Search and the newly-acquired Fitbit group, according to a June 17 Insider report. 

The nation's highest court has ruled that the ACA remains the law in the U.S., Bloomberg News reported June 17.

Helen Boucher, MD, was appointed to a new joint position as interim dean for Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and chief academic officer for Tufts Medical Center's parent health system, Burlington, Mass.-based Wellforce, according to a June 16 statement.

Cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgery topped the list as the highest-paid physician assistant specialty in 2020, according to the American Academy of Physician Assistants Salary Report published June 16. 

As cases continue to decrease in most regions of the U.S., some states still present concerning trends.   

Citing a contract lapse with a California hospital network, Community Regional Anesthesia Medical Group in Fresno, Calif., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy June 16, according to The Business Journal.