As robotic surgery becomes more widely adopted for general surgery, healthcare systems recognize that they can't limit these procedures to traditional, weekday business hours.

Value-based partnerships between payers and providers have long been tested and launched in pockets within the industry. But today, the rules of the game are changing across all lines of business. Providers and payers need new business models to generate margin, growth, and a competitive advantage.

Apple's healthcare-related initiatives have struggled to gain traction, partially due to staff departures, The Wall Street Journal reported June 16. 

Hospital-acquired pressure injuries are costly and contribute to poor patient outcomes. Unfortunately, they are also on the rise. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports that between 2014 and 2017 national rates for pressure injuries increased 6 percent, while the rates for all hospital-acquired conditions decreased 13 percent.

Researchers from Boston-based Harvard Business School and Durham, N.C.-based Duke University shared three ways hospitals can be better prepared for a future pandemic in a June 10 report published in Harvard Business Review.

Amazon has opened three new health centers in Detroit for its employees through a partnership with Crossover Health, a medical group that works with self-insured employers, according to a June 14 Royal Oak Tribune report. 

According to the Beryl Institute, patient experience is the sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization's culture, that influences patient perceptions across the continuum of care.

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked various discussions about what steps should be taken to prepare for the next public health crisis. To study this, TIME, with guidance from the University of Washington Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness, polled 73 experts in late May about mitigation initiatives.

Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas, will reinstate its mask requirements, according to local station CBS7.

In 2009, I co-founded a company called Kobo, a global leader in e-books. When I look back on that time, what motivated incumbents to innovate wasn’t new technology or the desire to drive growth. It was fear.

Would you rather save time or money? When both are in short supply, this can be an impossible question for hospitals to answer. 

Walmart Health's primary care medical group has filed paperwork to expand virtual care in 16 more states, Insider reported June 7. 

Affordability has long been an issue in healthcare, but the problem has only worsened. Permanent solutions are needed to bend the healthcare cost curve in the United States.

Safety is always a concern in hospital environments. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and civil unrest over the past year, risks to hospital and health system staff, patients and assets have only increased.

Through its Centers of Excellence program, Walmart partners with health systems that have demonstrated appropriate, high-quality care and outcomes for defined episodes of care.

"Noise" is unwanted variability in judgments that should be identical, and most senior executives underestimate just how loud it is within their organizations.

Texas, Florida and Georgia accounted for half of the aggregated population growth in the last decade. Yet these states rank last in health and healthcare for having a large number of uninsured adults, high amounts of premature death and unaffordable healthcare, according to a June 2 report published in Harvard Business Review.

Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas, is relaxing several of its mask requirements, according to a June 1 report from NewsWest9.

Surgery Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGRY) and UCI Health have announced a new strategic partnership that marks an expansion of community access to outpatient surgical facilities for nearly 4 million residents throughout Orange County, western Riverside County and southern California.

Several large employers, including Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Walmart, have deepened their presence in healthcare.