Tag: Hospitals
Weill Cornell Medicine launches $1.5B campaign to fund bench-to-bedside research in precision health, genomics
Weill Cornell Medical has launched a $1.5 billion campaign to invest in bench-to-bedside research, including precision health, genomics and artificial intelligence. The New York-based institution has ... Read More
Epic's widely used sepsis prediction model falls short among Michigan Medicine patients
New peer-reviewed data cast doubt on a proprietary sepsis prediction algorithm developed by Epic and implemented at hundreds of hospitals in the U.S. Called the ... Read More
Nursing home deaths spiked 32% among Medicare beneficiaries during 2020, OIG finds
More than 2 in 5 Medicare beneficiaries living in a nursing home were diagnosed or likely had COVID-19 during 2020, according to a new report ... Read More
Charity plans to wipe out $278M of Ballad Health's outstanding patient medical debts
A national charity will buy $278 million in medical debt directly from Appalachian-area health system Ballad Health, helping provide financial relief to 82,000 patients. Ballad Health ... Read More
CDC's new guidance for treating COVID-19 long-haulers warns against relying on labs, imaging results alone
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new interim guidance late Monday for healthcare providers treating patients with post-COVID conditions—an umbrella term the ... Read More
Healthcare executives call on Biden to take 'innovative, bold' steps to tackle health equity using AI, big data
The past couple of years have seen the U.S. healthcare system bow under the weight of two pandemics that could be mitigated with the intelligent use of ... Read More
Scripps Health was attacked by hackers. Now, patients are suing for failing to protect their health data
It took several weeks for Scripps Health to get its computer network and medical records system back online after it was hit with a ransomware ... Read More