The FDA approved Nov. 8 Celegene's drug, Reblozyl, designed to treat anemia in adult patients with beta thalassemia who require regular red blood cell transfusions.

A federal jury in Seattle awarded a former Biogen sales representative nearly $6 million after she claimed the drugmaker fired her for refusing to pursue off-label marketing, according to STAT.

Here are 13 hospitals and health systems that implemented telehealth technology and services in October:

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital and health system executive moves in the last week:

Rancho Mirage, Calif.-based Eisenhower Health will deploy a robotic platform this month to support earlier and more accurate diagnoses of lung cancer.

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health has appointed Sheri Shapiro senior vice president and chief strategy officer.

Most pediatric patients and their families are more or equally satisfied with allergy and asthma treatment delivered via telemedicine as opposed to in-person, according to a recent American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology study.

Here are seven recent health information technology vendor contracts and go lives affecting healthcare organizations.

Artificial intelligence is currently used on a more insular, internal level within healthcare organizations, but in the months and years to come will expand to address population-level issues such as disease outbreaks and social determinants of health on a global scale.

With healthcare organizations gathering reams of data every minute and with advanced analytics software readily available, practically the only thing that can prevent data insights from transforming clinician workflows and patient outcomes is a lack of creativity.

Most artificial intelligence tools developed for use in healthcare purport to predict and detect disease with superhuman speed and accuracy, but the technology's true life-saving potential lies in discovering why those diseases occur at all.

Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services will integrate Great Lakes Health Connect, a Michigan-based health information exchange by the end of the year, according to a Nov. 7 news release.

An update on credit rating activity in the last week at a dozen hospital or health systems:

Chicago-based Sinai Health System has reached an agreement with the union representing hundreds of its workers, according to news releases from health system and union officials.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has selected Bruce A. Metz, PhD, to serve as its first CIO, effective in January.

Mercy Health-Springfield (Ohio) has tapped Chris Howe to serve as COO and Rhonda Beane as chief nursing officer.

Donald R. Riggs, chief compliance officer of Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health, plans to retire at the end of the year after 27 years with the health system.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Medical Center identified contaminated equipment as the source of Pseudomonas bacteria that killed three infants and sickened five others in its neonatal intensive care unit this fall, reports The Daily Item.

To keep loyal patients, hospital leaders are evaluating various strategies to improve patient experiences. Some executives are making in-person visits to patients, similar to when a manager of a restaurant visits your table. Others are using technology, whether it be to give patients updates about their appointments or to visit patients virtually.

The share of blockchain and cryptocurrency job searches per millions decreased 53 percent between September 2018 and September 2019, according to a report from Indeed cited by Forbes.