Rural health system Sanford Health and urban Fairview Health Services in Minnesota have signed a non-binding letter of intent to combine and create a new health system. The name of the parent company will be Sanford Health. Sanford Health CEO Bill Gassen will serve as president and CEO and Fairview Health Services CEO James Hereford […]

Kathy Ford, chief product and strategy officer at Project Ronin, discusses the progress in AI for healthcare and whether the industry is still afraid of risk.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is looking to improve its data in ways that contribute to a fairer healthcare system, including continuing the development of equity scores and refining the Health Equity Summary Score, as well as addressing bias in various tools and methods.

The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has entered into a Voluntary Resolution Agreement with CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs after the latter was accused of not providing hearing aids to a patient, OCR has said.

The bank helps physicians in assessing needs, developing solutions across treasury tools and automating office functions, according to Lauren Ruane, co-head of healthcare for J.P. Morgan’s Middle Market Banking & Specialized Industries.

The public health emergency will be extended past its current deadline of January 11, if the Department of Health and Human Services follows its promised to give providers and other stakeholders 60 days notice before the end of the PHE. That deadline was Friday.

American Medical Association President Dr. Jack Resneck Jr. decried laws that stop physicians from providing reproductive healthcare, during an Interim Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates.

Several healthcare acquired infections (HAIs), such as central line-associated bloodstream infections and ventilator events, showed increased prevalence in 2021, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Four of six common infections increased over 2020, with the biggest increase occurring with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which showed a 14% year-over-year […]

The Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program, run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is meant to subsidize care for low-income patients but is falling short when it comes to supporting hospitals in traditionally disadvantaged Black communities, according to new findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Chief clinical officer at AvaSure Lisbeth Votruba, RN, talks about the company’s tele-sitter technology for acute virtual care. She explains when a virtual nurse is needed, the skill set required and outcomes hospitals are seeing.