A number of trends have gained traction on social media and in the workplace in recent months, with "conscious quitting" being among the most recent, Fortune reported Feb. 28. 

UC San Diego Health said conversations are underway between regional municipal and health leaders to decide if, in the long-term, that local health systems in Imperial Valley, Calif., could create one health system that coordinates care and possibly shares an EHR system.

Hospitals and health systems should hold off on their investments in large language models as there is currently no way to evaluate whether these tools will be useful, fair and reliable, according to a Feb. 27 Stanford University article. 

Telehealth startup Cerebral is laying off 15 percent of its staff, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 27. 

An anonymous individual called Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare to notify the hospital that a PDF copy of a Medicare remittance report for Sentara's lab services was uploaded to an Adobe Acrobat website. 

A campaign pointing out negative statistics and experiences at New York City-based Maimonides Medical Center, with a video even likening it to being in prison, has cost more than $1 million, The New York Times reported. But it's unknown who's funding it.

A service launched by University of Florida Health in Gainesville is designed to assist patients in interpreting pharmacogenetic test results.

A little over a year since the online pharmacy launched in January 2022, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. has served 2 million customers. 

BetterNight, a virtual sleep care company, raised $33 million in growth funding.

Mercy Iowa City Hospital, one of 23 affiliated hospitals of Des Moines, Iowa-based MercyOne, has retained Insight Health Partners as consultants after breaching debt coverage agreements.

Hospital CEO exits hit a high in January, with 23 departures announced being the highest CEO turnover across 29 industries, according to one new analysis. 

Oceanside, Calif.-based Tri-City Healthcare District has named its chief medical officer, Gene Ma, MD, interim president and CEO. 

An Iowa nurse was sanctioned by the state Board of Nursing, then fired from two jobs, after adopting the baby of a former patient, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported Feb. 24. 

Ohio-based Cleveland Clinic researchers found erythritol, a popular artificial sweetener, is associated with increased risk of heart attack, stroke and clotting.

New York City-based Mount Sinai has launched a video series focused on celebrating its front-line workers. 

Death certificates will soon include long COVID-19 as a cause now that the CDC has broadened guidelines for certifying deaths.

Walmart uses a cloud service from Microsoft and VMware to access its Epic EHR instances at every new healthcare clinic it opens.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center nursing legend Carl James, RN, died at 75 on Feb. 17.

The year is off to an unfriendly start for hospital finances, with a median margin of -1 percent for January, worsening from the margin recorded a month prior, according to Kaufman Hall.

Physicians and other health experts are emphasizing the need to focus on preventing the next disease outbreak and eliminate politics from science in response to the U.S. Energy Department's new conclusion that a mishap at a Chinese laboratory was the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.