Male nurses make on average around $6,000 more per year compared to their female counterparts despite accounting for only around 10% of registered nurses, according to a recent report from Nurse.com.

The planned merger between Cincinnati-based grocery store chain Kroger and Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons will not interfere with pharmacy and healthcare service operations at the 579 stores the companies plan to sell to Keene, N.H.-based C&S Wholesale Grocers. 

UPMC Enterprises, the venture capital arm of Pittsburgh-based UPMC, has sold its inpatient teleconsult technology to eVisit, a virtual care platform. Initially developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, this platform played a crucial role in supporting health systems like New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital during the viral surge in New York City.

The data of patients at Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth might have been impacted by a breach on one of the system's vendors. 

Forty-two percent of employees who left their organization say management could have prevented it, according to a recent Gallup study.

Hackers are giving an Illinois hospital until July 17 to pay ransom following a cyberattack, Security Affairs reported.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham's innovation strategy includes digital transformation and artificial intelligence but largely focuses on therapeutics.

Hospitals and physicians are voicing concerns over the Biden administration's proposed rules to improve maternal health, arguing the current approach is too punitive and could inadvertently hinder access to obstetrical care. 

The House Appropriations Committee on July 10 voted 31-25 in favor of a bill that would provide $185.8 billion in funding for HHS and the departments of labor and education in the fiscal year 2025, which ends Sept. 30. 

Physicians are increasingly turning to generative AI to appeal denied prior authorizations, The New York Times reported July 10. 

When it comes to quality and safety improvement, healthcare leaders spend plenty of time analyzing adverse events and what led up to an unfavorable outcome. At NYC Health + Hospitals, leaders are beginning to apply that same level of rigor when things go right. 

Grove Hill (Ala.) Memorial Hospital has shared plans to discontinue its labor and delivery services, effective at the end of the business day on Aug. 16.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has promoted two leaders to new positions on its executive team.

Pharmacists are the most accessible healthcare professional in communities, literally standing among the patients, but they are not living up to the opportunity and responsibility they have to patients, Onisis Stefas, PharmD, CEO of Vivo Health, the pharmacy operated by New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health, said in an opinion piece published on MedPage Today July 10.

More than half (57%) of physician assistants described their relationship with physicians as very good, but 43% said they are only somewhat satisfied with how physicians treat them, a Medscape report found.

Dallas-based Steward Health Care made six payments totaling just under $1.6 million this year to London-based Audere International, a commercial intelligence, investigations and security company, prior to filing for bankruptcy on May 6.

Strauss Ventures, doing business as Grand Healthcare System, and 12 skilled nursing facilities will pay $21.3 million to settle allegations they billed federal healthcare programs for services that were unreasonable, unnecessary, unskilled or that did not occur as billed.

All 780 revenue cycle employees at Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic are being offered comparable positions at Ensemble Health Partners as the health system transfers RCM operations.

In 2023, a record 8.4% of companies represented in the S&P 500 and Fortune 500 promoted a finance chief to CEO, up from 5.8% 10 years ago, according to data from executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates.

Hospitals groups are pushing back against CMS' proposed 2.6% pay bump for 2025, arguing that the increase is inadequate as a large portion of the nonprofit hospital sector continue to see operating margins in the red or hover above zero.