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 ()
Industry Watcher’s Digest ()
If you haven’t met your chief AI officer yet, chances are you soon will ()
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 ()
Industry Watcher’s Digest ()
Healthcare leaders feeling their way into, through AI adoption ()
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 ()
Industry Watcher’s Digest ()
3 strategies healthcare can copy from aviation to refine medical AI ()
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 ()
Industry Watcher’s Digest ()
4 ways AI is transforming healthcare at 1 medical school ()
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 ()
Industry Watcher’s Digest ()
Both sides now: 6 contended points regarding AI in healthcare ()
Physician picked to guide Harvard through present storm ()
Hospitals: Maybe don’t trim your PPE stockpiles just yet ()