Healthcare jobs are the most common occupation in 13 states, according to a July 30 LinkedIn post from personal finance website WalletHub. Home health and personal care aides and registered nurses were the top occupation in 11 and two states,…
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The Department of Justice’s decision not to prosecute an eye care management company this week, while indicting its founder on fraud and kickback charges, gives healthcare compliance teams their first real-world look at how a new federal disclosure policy works.…
Shiloh Erven was appointed CEO of Morrow County Health District in Heppner, Ore., effective July 1. Mr. Erven joins the district from Corvallis, Ore.-based Samaritan Health Services, where he spent 17 years, most recently as a healthcare executive, according to…
Kevin Kilday has been named CFO of Eden, N.C.-based UNC Health Rockingham and Siler City, N.C.-based UNC Health Chatham. Mr. Kilday starts Aug. 3 and will oversee financial strategy, operational performance and long-term planning for both facilities, which are part…
New York City-based NYU Langone Health and Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute launched Solavia Decision Suite, an oncology decision support platform embedded directly in the electronic health record. The tool went live internally at NYU Langone on June 30 and is…
More than 155 million people visit U.S. emergency departments each year and for many, the first critical assessment happens long before they reach the hospital. 70% of inpatient admissions come from the ED, and approximately 40% of those ED admissions…
Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences made the first investments from the Henry Ford + MSU Innovation Fund, backing early-stage companies LightHearted AI and M3D. The organizations announced the deals in a July 30 news release shared…
Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System has opened its fifth retail pharmacy, with four more planned across the system within the next year, Binita Patel, PharmD, vice president of pharmacy services, told Becker’s. The latest addition is a second location at…
AI adoption in healthcare has often outpaced the workforce’s comfort with it, and revenue cycle departments, where automation touches coding, denials and prior authorization daily, are no exception. The Cleveland Clinic’s revenue cycle department has gotten ahead of that discomfort…
Clinical cases of Candida auris more than doubled nationwide between 2022 and 2024, according to CDC data released in July. The CDC recorded 6,304 clinical cases across 43 states and Washington, D.C., in 2024 — the most recent year available…