Capacity: It’s a word that comes up in nearly every conversation with hospital and health system leaders today. As the nation’s population ages and the healthcare sector faces a wave of workforce retirements, capacity has become a defining operational challenge.…
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Meetings starting after 8 p.m. have increased 16% year over year, according to a June 17 article analyzing Microsoft 365 usage and published by WorkLab, a Microsoft publication. This trend, combined with 4 in 10 global employees checking email at…
Nationwide, hospitals and pharmacies are seeing ongoing shortages of medications including some anesthetics, antibiotics, opioids and chronic disease treatments, FDA data shows. As of June 19, 194 drugs were in shortage, according to the agency’s database of current and resolved…
Seven health system CIOs made Constellation Research’s 2026 Business Transformation 150 list of the top IT leaders across industries. The tech research firm selects the finalists after receiving nominations from peers, industry influencers, tech vendors and analysts. Here are the…
San Antonio-based University Health has been recognized as a national leader for hospital-at-home care after the program saved the health system over $17 million. Here are four things to know from a June 12 news release: 1. America’s Essential Hospitals…
An IT vendor data breach involving 5.4 million individuals has ensnared health systems. Episource, an Optum subsidiary that provides medical coding and risk adjustment services to health systems and payers, said it turned off its computer systems Feb. 6 after…
National Institutes of Health grant terminations have hit some states dramatically harder than others, with just three accounting for more than two-thirds of all rescinded funding this year, according to a June 17 report from Grant Watch. Since March, more…
Palmdale (Calif.) Regional Medical Center has named Joe Nocie CFO, according to a post on its LinkedIn page. Mr. Nocie previously served as CFO of Kankakee, Ill.-based St. Mary Hospital, according to the post. His past experience also includes serving…
From partnering with more health systems to launching new healthcare features, here are five of Google’s healthcare moves reported by Becker’s since March:
GLP-1 medications such as Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic helped drive a 9% year-over-year increase in U.S. prescription dispensing revenue, which reached $683 billion in 2024. A separate report found that among nonspecialty medications, there was a 6.3% increase in net…