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U.S. News & World Report published its 11th annual Best Global Universities rankings June 17, evaluating 2,250 top institutions across 105 countries based on their global and regional research ...
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has appointed new chief medical officers at two of its hospitals. Omayra Mansfield, MD, has been named vice president and CMO at AdventHealth Celebration in ...
Despite a “significant decrease” in the clinical risk of heart failure patients admitted to hospitals acquired by private equity firms, clinical outcomes did not improve, according to a study ...
Cleveland Clinic patients who received the Ross procedure for aortic valve replacement after 2000 have experienced better outcomes than patients who received the procedure prior to 2000, according to ...
St. Louis-based Ascension said June 17 that it has entered an agreement to acquire AmSurg, an ASC operator with more than 250 facilities across 34 states. The move will significantly expand the ...
A Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center team has performed a fully robotic heart transplant. The procedure marks the first fully robotic heart transplant to be performed on an adult patient ...
New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has signed a new three-year agreement with Latent Health to expand the use of AI tools that streamline medication prior authorizations across its network. The ...
Orthopedic and musculoskeletal (MSK) care leaders are facing a mounting challenge: how to grow sustainably amid flat reimbursement, workforce shortages, and increased patient demand. The answer isn’t ...
The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Epic EHR system includes a field for “citizenship,” Mississippi Today reported June 16. An Epic spokesperson told the publication that the feature was ...
A physician from Porter Ranch, Calif., was sentenced to 54 months in prison for falsifying home health certifications and fraudulently billing Medicare. What happened?
HealthCare and the hybrid care company OnMed have opened a virtual care station at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. The walk-in telehealth kiosk, sponsored by Hartford HealthCare, ...
Three state nursing associations are speaking out against Medicaid enrollee data being shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On June 16, the Washington State Nurses Association, American ...