KFF has released a new analysis outlining maternal mortality rates for every state and Washington, D.C.

Members of United Nurses of Children's Hospital Local 1699 are set to begin a two-day strike July 22 at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, KUSI reported.

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 more than 30 hospitals across eight states. 

It's no secret that hospitals and health systems continue to deal with rising costs, leading to many healthcare finance leaders looking for solutions to offload some of that pressure. 

Kevin Murphy was named vice president of revenue cycle management for HealthPRO Heritage, according to a July 11 post on his LinkedIn page. 

Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare's St. Joseph Hospital in Tampa, Fla., is the second system to use Amazon's Just Walk Out technology in its cafe, the Tampa Bay Times reported July 11.

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago has been hit with a federal class action lawsuit over a data breach that affected 792,000 patients. The lawsuit also alleges that the hospital waited almost five months to inform individuals their information had been compromised, according to court documents.

The pandemic upended healthcare in innumerable ways, and one of the less visible ones is how it affected the transition to practice for clinicians who were in school studying to become the next front-line clinicians. 

A former employee of Nuance Communications who was responsible for breaching the records of more than 1.2 million patients at Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger has had their trial pushed back, The Daily Item reported July 12.  

The American Telemedicine Association formed a new leadership council featuring 11 health system executives.

UChicago Medicine recently created an application in Epic that has been rolled out across the health system's EHR — and could soon become part of Epic EHRs everywhere.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is backing an artificial intelligence startup that scans EHR data to arm providers with clinical insights and potential diagnoses.

Sizable donations to medical schools that enable universities to waive tuition fees may widen the aperture of students' specialty considerations, given they will not have hundreds of thousands of dollars in loan debt as a factor in their decisions. 

Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital reported some patients' information was breached during Medibase's data security incident.

Lawmakers are pressing VA leadership to elaborate on the patient safety issues at Aurora, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center that have stopped surgeries at the facility, The Denver Post reported July 9.

Dedication. That's just one of the words Rob Allen, president and CEO of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health, used to advise aspiring healthcare leaders in a July 11 LinkedIn post. 

Renton, Wash.-based Providence and Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health are notifying about 2,400 patients of a potential exposure to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV due to a physician's inadequate infection control practices.

Mike Cooper was named CEO of Fairfield (Ill.) Memorial Hospital.

A mislabeled overwrap and a difference of two lowercase letters on an intravenous bag have prompted a national alert after a nurse administered the medication and, 15 minutes later, the patient's heart rate slowed. 

Specialists saw a larger pay bump than primary care physicians last year on average, according to AMGA's 2024 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey.