The Consumer Product Safety Commission is overhauling how hospitals track and report consumer product-related injuries, moving to a system that pulls data automatically from patients’ electronic health records, Politico reported July 21. The updated system, called NEISS-R, replaces a manually…
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Brandon Cohen has been named COO of St. David’s North Austin (Texas) Medical Center, effective July 23. The hospital is part of Austin-based St. David’s HealthCare. In his new role, Mr. Cohen will oversee the 465-bed hospital’s operations and support…
Innovation consortium Longitude Health’s board of managers approved funding for two new utilities: Longitude Clinical Trial Services and Longitude Cell and Gene Therapy. The additions bring Longitude Health’s utility count to four, joining Longitude Rx, launched in December 2024, and…
Clinical AI vendors have spent the past few weeks citing dueling benchmark studies to make the case that their tool is the safest or most trusted by physicians — sometimes citing the same study to reach opposite conclusions. Here are…
The FDA has granted full approval for selpercatnib in the treatment of advanced cancer among patients ages 2 and older who carry a rare genetic alteration. Selpercatinib, also known as Retevmo, targets and “turns off” the RET gene fusion to…
HHS’ ONC has selected nine teams as phase 1 winners of its EHIgnite Challenge, a federal competition to turn dense electronic health information exports into usable tools for patients and clinicians. The challenge drew nearly 100 submissions targeting the problem…
Columbus-based Nationwide Children’s Hospital has named Tara Floyd, BSN, RN, its senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer, effective immediately. Ms. Floyd will lead the hospital’s largest employee group, which is more than 4,000 nurses and…
U.S. companies across industries are offering generous 401(k) plans to retain employees. Can healthcare keep up? Companies in specialized fields often conduct benchmark surveys to assess what other employers are offering and what benefits staff value most, The Wall Street…
Amazon is hiring software and applied-science leaders, AI engineers and a healthcare cybersecurity specialist — the kinds of roles hospital and health system CIOs and chief digital officers are competing for as they build out their own AI and digital…
HHS and CMS are deferring more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid funds to Minnesota and California, agency officials confirmed July 21. The agencies said they are deferring approximately $867.5 million in payments to California and $199 million to Minnesota…