Health systems are facing a late-career physician dilemma: An aging workforce raises patient safety concerns, yet shortages and early retirements among mid-career physicians mean late-career physicians are needed more than ever. The physician workforce has faced an aging problem for…
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The White House is reviewing a proposal to broaden access to compounded peptides with more patient protections than initially expected, according to an Oct. 22 Bloomberg report. Here are five things to know:
After a brief post-pandemic lull, hospital consolidation is accelerating again, with large health systems expanding across state lines, absorbing independent hospitals and reshaping regional care markets. From portfolio resets and strategic exits to cross-market mergers and billion-dollar investments, these moves…
Nurses at four Endeavor Health hospitals filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board Oct. 22 seeking an election to be represented by Teamsters Local 743. Endeavor’s hospitals in Evanston, Glenview, Highland Park and Skokie, Ill., according to the…
The FDA has issued its most serious recall classification for certain hospital glucose meters after a software issue that could cause test results to be assigned to the wrong patient was linked to one serious injury. The recall affects Nova…
Ask health system CIOs which EHR task they first wanted AI to take off clinicians’ plates, and the answer was the note. In a survey released in July 2025 by CliniComp and the CHIME Foundation, 54% of CIOs said documentation…
Iowa nursing homes received the most CMS citations for insufficient staffing of any state, the Iowa Capital Dispatch found. The Dispatch reviewed CMS skilled nursing facility citation data to find the states with the most citations for insufficient staffing in…
The American College of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North America told the FDA that generative AI-enabled medical devices need strong postmarket monitoring alongside any regulatory flexibility, according to comments both societies submitted Oct. 19 on the agency’s generative…
HHS will keep HIPAA civil monetary penalties at 2025 levels and skip its annual inflation adjustment for 2026, the department said in an Oct. 21 Federal Register notice. The freeze traces to last year’s federal government shutdown. The Bureau of…
Two years ago, Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System was reviewing roughly one artificial intelligence feature for approval each month. Today, that number has climbed to more than a dozen, prompting the health system to rethink how it evaluates and…