January 2024

ECRI: Top 10 healthcare technology hazards that are avoidable (by suppliers) and/or minimizable (by providers)
CMS steps up its game on value-based care communications
Hospitals enter 2024 nurturing marginally healthy margins
AHA prez: Upside to Congressional can-kicking is ‘more time to tell the hospital story and educate lawmakers’
Healthcare workers moonlighting for extra income
Philips halting sleep apnea device sales amid FDA consent decree
Finance specialists: In 2024, hospitals and health systems ‘will not be able to cut their way to profitability’
IT, AI and staff retention likely to remain C-suite priorities this year and next
Bankruptcy bug kept biting healthcare in 2023
24 hospitals earn ‘A+’ or ‘A’ for overall performance
Instacart, DispatchHealth launch joint effort to mitigate food insecurity
TikTok march: Nurses back menaced colleague, raise awareness of patient violence
Healthgrades unveils America's Best Hospitals 2024
AMA-backed Health2047 rolls out new cybersecurity platform
Practices should prep for M&A surge, says Grant Thornton
Physician plaintiff: ‘I shouldn’t have to risk losing my license—or getting jail time’ over telehealth visits
Why is VA medicine more efficient than civilian healthcare? Because ‘caring—not money—is our mission’
No place like home: Acute care delivered at home safe, effective
Former Pfizer employee convicted of trading on COVID trial info
Philanthropic foundation to spend $250M training tomorrow’s healthcare workers across 10 cities
FDA flags defective packaging of Exactech shoulder joint devices
Government watchdog takes up FDA recall inquiry following report
Health systems to face an additional $1.6 trillion climate change burden
Hims & Hers, Hartford HealthCare partner for in-person care access
CES speakers talk about AI in health, need for trust
FDA clears mass importing of Canadian drugs
Binding cybersecurity standards are close at hand for healthcare
Behind Gen. Austin’s controversially quiet ICU stay
Amazon rolls out proactive virtual care for undermanaged chronic conditions
$3.7B acquisition shakes up urology business
US healthcare enters 2024 with transparency momentum to build on
When private equity moves in, safety performance falls off
Physician picked to guide Harvard through present storm
Hospitals: Maybe don’t trim your PPE stockpiles just yet