Category: Press Release

Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints. Poorly designed layouts can create bottlenecks, limit privacy, and negatively impact both staff and patient experience. Yet for many hospitals, clinics, and outpatient settings, expanding or relocating simply isn’t feasible. Construction costs have risen dramatically […]

KFF Health News Southern California correspondent Claudia Boyd-Barrett discussed how family members and lawyers of those in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are struggling to find them in California hospitals on CapRadio’s Insight With Vicki Gonzalez on Feb. 25. Click here to hear Boyd-Barrett on Insight With Vicki Gonzalez. Read Boyd-Barrett’s “‘I Can’t Tell You’: […]

Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth is going live with Epic on March 1 after a two-year implementation. The six-hospital system selected the new EHR vendor in December 2024, embarking on what the organization called “one of the largest technology upgrades in our history.” CoxHealth paused some online features amid the transition, including online self-scheduling Feb. 16 and […]

The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson said Feb. 27 it is continuing to restore its systems and plans to resume normal clinic operations statewide next week following a recent cyberattack. Clinics across Mississippi will return to normal operations and scheduled appointments March 2 after the health system regained access to patient records, according […]

Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health researchers are helping to “reimagine” the EHR with AI and machine learning. The bioinformacists are using the advanced technology to create EHR-based tools that assist physicians with diagnosing and treating disease, according to a Feb. 25 news release. The Reimagine EHR project, supported by corporate partnerships and about […]

The American Hospital Association is urging federal health IT officials to scale back and slow portions of a proposed interoperability overhaul, warning that eliminating key certification requirements could threaten patient safety and strain hospitals, particularly rural facilities. In a Feb. 27 letter to Thomas Keane, MD, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for […]

Healthcare leaders are carefully weighing the wording of signs aimed at reducing workplace violence out of concern about violating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Among an array of efforts to minimize and prevent violence in healthcare settings — such as legislation that categorizes violence against a healthcare worker as a felony — there […]

Healthcare leaders are moving quickly on AI — but many believe the biggest risk isn’t that the technology falls short. It’s that organizations overestimate what AI can do on its own and underestimate what it takes to make it work safely, at scale and inside real workflows.  According to many healthcare leaders who spoke with […]

The 10 largest health systems in the country manage billions of dollars in revenue and more than 1,150 hospitals combined. At the helm are CEOs and CFOs charged with balancing growth, operational stability and long-term sustainability amid increasingly complex payer dynamics. Here are the leaders guiding the nation’s 10 largest health systems by hospital count. […]

Waynesboro, Miss.-based Wayne General Hospital is rolling out an AI-assisted cardiac detection platform across its emergency and primary care departments. The hospital is using Sensora, FDA-cleared software developed by tech startup Eko Health that pairs with its digital stethoscope to support earlier identification of atrial fibrillation, low ejection fraction and structural heart disease. “Deploying Sensora […]