Virtual urgent care, remote monitoring: How CHOP's health IT team met the viral surge

Hospitals in upstate New York are pushing for a Medicaid reimbursement rate increase to help combat staffing shortages, Spectrum News 1 reported Jan. 26. Iroquois Healthcare Association — a healthcare trade organization representing 54 hospitals and health systems in upstate New York — is seeking a 25 percent hike, according to the report.

WALMART is allegedly under investigation due to recent questions about their dietary supplements. These inquiries specifically have to do with magnesium products. Attorneys for Top Class Actions believe that Walmart may be mislabeling the magnesium supplements that are under the retail chain's Equate brand, according to Best Life. Magnesium is...

Becker's Hospital Review is excited to feature the orthopedic departments of 50 hospitals and health systems across the U.S. Hospitals and health systems listed below are dedicated to expanding their orthopedic services and innovating in the space. We accepted nominations for this list. Click here to find the 2023 nomination forms.

Researchers at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University have created an artificial intelligence tool to predict the risk of a patient developing "ICU delirium," a condition in which patients admitted to the intensive care unit develop bouts of confusion, inattention, paranoia and, in some cases, hallucinations. The team developed two AI models...

Hospitals and health systems accelerated their technology integration and digital transformation during the pandemic to best serve their communities. Many organizations see the shift to digital continuing to affect hospital strategy in the next decade. Becker's asked health system leaders: Question: What will hospitals and health systems look like in...

All COVID-19 vaccines should be targeted to the original and dominant strains, an FDA advisory panel said Jan. 26, but members debated whether a new modified vaccine every 12 months is optimal. After a daylong meeting discussing tentative changes to the nation's COVID-19 vaccine strategy, the FDA's Vaccines and Related...

Elaborate, a lab results tool integrated with Epic and more than 65 other EHR systems, raised $10 million in its seed financing round. Launched in 2021, the company aims to reduce the unnecessary communications between clinicians and patients by providing contextualized lab results and action items. Tusk Venture Partners led the financing round, according to a Jan. 26 Elaborate news release.

Sense Neuro Diagnostics, a startup developing a noninvasive brain scanner to improve outcomes for patients with stroke or brain injuries, is expanding after a partnership with Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, Cincinnati Business Inquirer reported. The Cincinnati-based startup is opening a location in Phoenix to build upon a "know-how" licensing agreement...

A recent Medscape report found physician burnout has increased to 53 percent — up 6 percent since 2021 — and 23 percent of physicians reported experiencing depression. The "Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2023: 'I Cry and No One Cares'" surveyed more than 9,100 physicians across 29 specialities between June and October 2022. In the report, burnout was defined as "long-term, unresolved, job-related stress leading to exhaustion, cynicism, detachment from job responsibilities, and lacking a sense of personal accomplishment."

Los Angeles-based UCLA Health said analytics tools it used on its website and mobile app may have transmitted the data of 94,000 individuals to third parties. The data breach affects patients who used the online appointment request form, which may have sent "certain limited information" to third-party service providers, according to a Jan. 13 notice on the health system's website. UCLA Health began using the analytics tools in April 2020 to track engagement but disabled them last June.

Volunteers at Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based Claxton Hepburn Medical Center are selling crafts to help the rural hospital improve its financial situation, NCPR reported Jan. 27. Last summer, the hospital laid off dozens of employees. Ramona Kennedy, the hospital's Lifeline medical alert service manager, runs the craft shop. In 2022, the craft...

The New Jersey Department of Health will use an $80.5 million grant from the CDC to bolster public health workforce development and training, the department said Jan. 26. The grant will be used to facilitate recruitment, advancement, and retention within the public health workforce through planning and professional development, the department said. It will also help state efforts to expand the NJDOH Centralized Data and Analytics Hub.

St. David's Medical Center in Austin, Texas, appointed David McKnight CFO, effective Dec. 30, 2022. Mr. McKnight has more than a decade of experience in hospital leadership. Most recently, he was CEO of Johnston-Willis Hospital, a 293-bed facility in Richmond, Va. Before that, he spent six years at Spotsylvania Regional...

Nurses at New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital are accusing hospital management of attempting to double retiree healthcare rates that were confirmed before and after a new contract was approved. Hospital leaders, meanwhile, contend they are adhering to contract provisions. New York State Nurses Association members approved a new contract at...

State officials have filed a notice of appeal in a case involving New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The notice is in response to a state Supreme Court judge's decision Jan. 13 to strike down the mandate, which was enacted in 2021. Judge Gerard Neri wrote in his...

UPMC Enterprises, the venture capital arm of Pittsburgh-based UPMC Health, backed health data company Smile Digital Health in a $30 million series B financing round. Smile works with vendors and hospitals to build a secure data infrastructure. The company plans to use the funds to explore artificial intelligence and machine learning investments, according to a Jan. 26 Smile news release.

New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery named Bryan Kelly, MD, its president and CEO, making him the first surgeon to take the position. Dr. Kelly succeeds Louis Shapiro, who has served as CEO and president of HHS since 2006. Dr. Kelly will take the role of president immediately and transition into the CEO role over the course of 2023.

Hours before St. Margaret's Health-Peru (Ill.) is scheduled to temporarily close, the hospital issued an apology to employees and the community for the way the news was delivered. The hospital is scheduled to temporarily close at 7 a.m. Jan. 28 after its contract with the provider of emergency room physician...

Florida is a hotbed of healthcare activity. The state holds 181 hospitals, and CMS rated 18 of them with one star, based on five quality categories. Despite the undesirable distinction, most of them appear to be profitable, according to data from Sage Transparency, which was launched by the Employers' Forum of Indiana. Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute in Fort Pierce tops the list.

A lawsuit was filed Jan. 10 accusing Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital of sending patient information to Meta and other third parties using code on their website, ABC affiliate WCPO reported. The line of code tracked and disseminated patient's activity on the hospital website, including search histories for physicians, patients' IP addresses...