Across the U.S., 7% of healthcare workers were uninsured in 2024, according to a KFF Health News report published Sept. 20 in The Washington Post. KFF‘s analysis was based on recent American Community Survey data. Fewer physicians opted out of…
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The White House is reportedly drafting an executive order that would create an external committee empowered to veto National Institutes of Health research grants that conflict with President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, The Washington Post first reported Sept. 18. The…
New York City-based NYU Langone Health and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will stop providing gender-affirming care to minors and pay a combined $9.45 million under agreements with the Justice Department, the department announced Sept. 18. NYU Langone will…
The CDC said it is still reviewing measles deaths reported by states this year, even as Pennsylvania has confirmed four fatalities tied to its outbreak. In a Sept. 18 update, the CDC’s dashboard listed 3,471 confirmed measles cases nationwide and…
Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reintroduced legislation that would establish minimum federal cybersecurity standards for healthcare organizations and provide $1.3 billion to help hospitals strengthen their defenses. The senators reintroduced the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act,…
Clara Lin, MD, vice president and chief medical information officer at Seattle Children’s, doesn’t have a shortage of AI tools to consider. She has the opposite problem. “Epic is coming out with like 100, 200, 300 … just so many…
Two hospitals set out to reduce maternal harm. Both have good clinicians, an analytics team and a quality committee. One joins a collaborative that hands it early benchmarking data, weekly working sessions with peers and a shared set of measures.…
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“I’m a poor career planner,” Geoff Patterson said — not exactly the sentence you’d expect from an executive at one of the nation’s largest health systems. Mr. Patterson, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer of Detroit-based Henry…
Mesquite, Texas-based Ernest Health announced Phase 1 of its plan to build six freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in North Carolina. The hospitals will be developed in partnership with Summit Healthcare Group, a North Carolinal real estate development firm, according to…
The pipeline of AI tools seeking a foothold inside health systems has never been longer or faster-moving. For CIOs and CMIOs, the hardest question is no longer whether to pilot new technology, but how to know when a pilot has…