AMN Signals Greater Appetite for Acquisitions
Executives told investors that the company’s finances are in better shape and the market for deals is warming up. Q2 results were helped by a “broad-based” improvement in demand for nurses.
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AI Is Only as Good as the Workflow Behind It
AI can streamline outdated workflows, but health systems need to rethink what’s necessary before automating it.
How Are Smaller Community Health Systems Approaching AI Decision-Making?
ECG Management Consultants’ Nathan McCarthy says smaller health systems tend to focus on things that they know will have a meaningful short-term ROI
Startup Boulevard Bio Launches With Immune Reset Pioneer Schett as Co-Founder
Deerfield Management formed Boulevard Bio with scientific co-founders Georg Schett and Frank Nestle. The startup’s lead program is in early clinical development for an autoimmune kidney disorder, and could offer dosing advantages over a recently approved Vera Therapeutics medicine and a Vertex Pharmaceuticals drug currently under FDA review. The post Startup Boulevard Bio Launches With…
Ambulatory Growth Demands a New Operating Model
While organizations have invested heavily in expanding ambulatory networks, many are discovering that operational workflows have not evolved at the same pace. The result is a growing gap between demand and the systems designed to manage it. The post Ambulatory Growth Demands a New Operating Model appeared first on MedCity News.
Aidoc’s Elad Walach on the Urgency of Building a Diagnostic AI Consortium
Twelve health systems are coming together with Aidoc to co-design AI-enabled diagnostic workflows and measure their impact on safety, quality and speed to diagnosis
Hospital Prepayment Requirements Add New Wrinkles to Patients’ Financial Responsibility
Thomas Zordani flew from his home in Denver to Phoenix for a consultation with a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, hoping to find out what could be done to treat his debilitating headaches after worrisome brain scan findings. When making the appointment, Zordani said, he’d been told the clinic was in his insurer’s network. Upon arrival, Zordani…
Years After He Quit Smoking, a Lung Cancer Scan Saved His Life
Dennis Schmidt started smoking as a teenager, when that was so unexceptional that his Catholic high school designated outdoor “senior smoking quarters,” where students in their final year could take cigarette breaks. He smoked a pack of menthols daily for nearly 40 years. As a registered nurse at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and…
Hospitals Say They Found a Tool To Help Reduce Childbirth Risks: Wristbands
Hospitals across the U.S. are trying to reduce maternal deaths and complications after pregnancies using one small tool: a silicone wristband stamped with the declaration “I Gave Birth.” The wristbands are part of a growing initiative first launched by North Carolina-based ECU Health as Congress sought to address the nation’s growing maternal mortality crisis during…
Pre-Surgical Complications (Part 3)
By MATTHEW HOLT Strap in for the tale of why your hero is spending most of his life down YouTube rabbit holes of cardiology videos while blundering his way around many many medical centers and exposing many problems with American health care even before he gets close to the operating table. Yes it’s Matthew Holt’s…