Two-thirds of hospital IT teams are strained or in constant “firefighting” mode, according to a new report — and even fully staffed departments aren’t immune. The Aug. 18 report from networking-as-a-service provider Nile surveyed more than 300 IT leaders, C-suite…
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New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center reported operating income of $216.6 million (4.7% operating margin), up from an operating loss of $113.2 million (-2.7% margin) during the same period last year, according to its Aug. 14 financial report. …
Health systems have lately been managing token-based AI costs across their broader vendor stack largely through access tiering and governance. What emerged at this year’s Epic Users Group Meeting is a narrower problem: The vendor’s own AI suite, now woven…
The frequency of cyberattacks on U.S. healthcare organizations is rising. So is their sophistication, their operational reach and the difficulty of containing them once they begin. A Fitch Ratings special report published Aug. 18 identifies the forces compounding healthcare’s cyber…
OpenAI is continuing to build out its healthcare ambitions, hiring across technical, engineering and sales roles aimed at helping health systems and other healthcare organizations deploy and scale its AI technology. The company is currently advertising four health tech roles…
UC Davis Health researchers developed a brain-computer interface that let a man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis communicate independently at home for nearly two years, according to a study published in Nature Medicine. The system was developed by researchers at UC…
HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital operator based in Nashville, Tenn., is seeking leaders for numerous C-suite roles within the organization. With 189 hospitals and about 2,600 ambulatory sites of care in 19 states and the United Kingdom, HCA is seeking…
New CMS data shows wide variation in emergency department visit times across the country, according to the agency’s latest release. The agency’s “Timely and Effective Care” dataset covers children and adults treated at hospitals paid under the Inpatient Prospective Payment…
Nearly 60% of healthcare finance leaders are targeting operating margin improvement of 2 percentage points or more over the next two years, even as fewer than half say their organizations are prepared to manage the challenges that could derail those…
Physician burnout has become a fixture of concern in healthcare — but many physician leaders argue that the problem extends beyond what the term defines. Walter Fink, DO, associate vice president and chief medical officer at UT Health San Antonio, describes the…