Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults reported not having a personal physician last year, according to new data from KFF. The analysis is based on 2024 survey data from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Nationwide, 16.8% of adults…
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Two 17-year-old boys arrested by London police in connection with a cyberattack on a nursery school chain are being investigated for possible links to a Minnesota hospital hack, the Financial Times reported. The teens were placed into custody Oct. 7…
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AdventHealth’s redesigned career ladder has prevented the departure of more than 700 nurses and saved the system an estimated $47.5 million in 2024. The Professional Excellence Program launched in 2022 to keep nurses at the bedside and counter the notion…
As health systems look to adopt ambient AI to ease nursing documentation, it can be a challenge to get nurses to verbalize tasks they are accustomed to doing in their heads. Atrium Health Union, part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health,…
Jason Frischer, MD, has been named surgeon-in-chief and chief of pediatric surgery at Le Bonheur Children’s and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, both based in Memphis. Dr. Frischer has spent decades leading advancements in complex pediatric surgeries and…
Health systems aiming to strengthen revenue cycle performance but constrained by budgets, expertise or technology are increasingly turning to end-to-end outsourcing partnerships, according to a report from KLAS Research. From July 2023 to May 2025, 14 systems struck new end-to-end…
AI chatbots are increasingly citing health system websites in their answers to healthcare-related questions. But which organizations show up the most in these AI-generated responses? Marketing agency Outcomes Rocket analyzed 5,472 unique citations in August generated by ChatGPT, Google Gemini,…
Becker’s asked pharmacy executives from hospitals and health systems across the U.S. to share the most underappreciated trends in healthcare today. The 22 executives featured in this article are all speaking at the Becker’s Healthcare Spring Chief Pharmacy Officer Summit,…
The FDA has approved cemiplimab-rwlc, marketed as Libtayo, as the first immunotherapy for adjuvant treatment of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma with a high risk of recurrence after surgery and radiation. Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals received approval Oct. 8 following a…