Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2024

People who use prescribed ADHD stimulant medications are at a lower risk of attempting suicide or dying by suicide and being hospitalized due to psychiatric issues.

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Hospital Medication 321

Scrubs

APRIL 6, 2023

Patients and staff are no longer required to wear face masks in hospitals and long-term care facilities, but it is still highly recommended. COVID-19 deaths have declined by over 80%, and new COVID-19 hospitalizations are down nearly 80%. California’s mask mandate for all healthcare settings came to end on Monday.

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Hospital Long Term Care Follow-Up Tests 352

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 26, 2025

If the nearest hospital experiences a ransomware attack that causes disruption to hospital operations, rural residents must travel a further 20 miles for common services and often a further 40 miles for specialized services. In 2022, 429 rural hospitals were at high financial risk.

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Hospital Collaboration HIPAA Best Practices 79

Forbes Healthcare

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Former President Bill Clinton was discharged from the hospital after being treated for the flu. Meanwhile, here's the latest from the CDC about influenza cases increasing

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Billing Hospital Discharges 294

We Care Online

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Millions of people visit hospitals or health centres for medical help every day. To ensure quality, many people wonder how to keep patients safe in hospitals. In this article, we’ll tell you how to keep patients safe in hospital. Hospital Acquired Infection Control of infections is very important for the safety of every patient.

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Hospital Patient Safety Unit Organization and Environment Communication 98

Scrubs

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The months-long nurses’ strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has come to a potential resolution after a tentative agreement was reached between the hospital and the United Steelworkers Local 4-200, which represents approximately 1,700 nurses.

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Hospital Patient Care Scheduling 239

Forbes Healthcare

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Labor woes that have dogged hospitals and health systems across the U.S. could be coming to an end, according to a new report from Aon.

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Hospital 273

Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

nonprofit hospitals enjoyed a total annual tax benefit of $37.4 Policymakers have been tilting the playing field in favor of them for too long.

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Hospital 273

Scrubs

JULY 17, 2024

San Diego, CA — Nurses at Rady Children’s Hospital have voted to authorize a strike from July 22 to July 24, following months of unsuccessful contract negotiations. The decision comes after the United Nurses of Children’s Hospital (UNOCH), the Teamsters union representing over 1,500 nurses, announced the vote on July 11.

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Hospital Patient Care Appointments 260

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 26, 2024

But around a third of its hospital trusts are yet to even measure their carbon footprint. The country's health system should be net zero by 2040.

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Hospital 255

Scrubs

MARCH 30, 2023

Nurses have been organizing to get federal lawmakers to pass a bill that would set minimum nurse-patient ratios for every department in every hospital in the country. The bill, known as The Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, was authored by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in the Senate and Rep.

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Billing Hospital Huddles/Rounds Patient Safety 290

Forbes Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Moving beyond uses for research and development, customer service needs, reducing administrative documentation burdens or easing regulatory processes, the latest trend by hospitals is to …

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Hospital Customer Service Documentation Medication 259

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 11, 2025

Randomized controlled trials could be done, but it would be difficult to find patients willing to be randomized to planned home vs. hospital delivery. Unplanned home births will obviously have worse outcomes than either hospital births or planned home births. Examining the Available Evidence Home birth is a complex topic to study.

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Hospital Collaboration Transfers Follow-Up 216

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

If sepsis screening was shown to be beneficial in one hospital, would it be beneficial in another, with an entirely different set of caregivers? Article Background With all that as background, I was excited when I saw the article Electronic Sepsis Screening Among Patients Admitted to Hospital Wards in JAMA. 0.93; P < 001.

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Hospital Vital Signs Follow-Up Transfers 243

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 31, 2025

Oracle appears to have suffered two security incidents, one of which involved data stored by Oracle Health related to the electronic health record (EHR) company Cerner.Oracle Health is a provider of health information technology to hospitals. Multiple Hospitals appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.

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Hospital HIPAA 83

Forbes Healthcare

JULY 17, 2024

A conversation with Isabelle Kamariza, founder of Solid'Africa, about closing the nutrient gap in hospital care and why, as she says, "food is love."

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Hospital 263

Forbes Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Rising cases of flu, norovirus, COVID-19 and RSV are sending thousands to hospital every week — and raising fears of a "quad-demic."

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Hospital 262

Forbes Healthcare

JULY 24, 2024

Medicare Advantage is accounting for “a rising share of inpatient hospital days,” according to a new KFF study shows.

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Admissions Hospital Insurance 232

Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 2, 2025

Hospital job cuts hurt the local economy. When hospitals slash jobs there is an economic and social ripple effect. Rural towns are impacted the most.

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Hospital 154

Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 2023, the Maryland Department of Health (DOH) adopted a standard for return to universal masking in healthcare facilities when hospitalizations with respiratory viruses (covid, influenza, or RSV) reach a level of 10 cases per 100,000 population. Maryland has a population of 6.3

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Hospital Communication Medication 241

Forbes Healthcare

JULY 12, 2024

Covid-19 led to a 75% surge in telemedicine appointments between 2020 and 2021. But barriers to wider implementation still exist.

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Hospital Appointments 293

Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The hospital is using a legal maneuver to preemptively strike back, bringing in temporary staff to replace the locked-out nurses, signaling their readiness to maintain operations without conceding to the union’s demands. The Stakes for Nurses and Patients The lockout has placed nurses in a precarious situation.

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Hospital Patient Safety Patient Care Medication 176

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2024

The data contains patient information including names, identification numbers and details of blood tests. It's not yet clear if it contains test results.

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Hospital Tests 273

Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

An Oregon hospital, Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, is embroiled in a $303 million lawsuit following an alarming case of fentanyl theft and medical malpractice. The remaining patients, who survived the ordeal, are part of a collective lawsuit against the hospital . If found guilty, Schofield could face up to 10 years in prison.

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Hospital Sterilization Follow-Up Patient Safety 182

Forbes Healthcare

MAY 14, 2024

Siemens Healthineers and the fast-growing startup Medically Home are collaborating to expand more advanced medical care in patients homes.

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Medication Hospital Collaboration 283

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

The pavement was scorching, but the air-conditioned halls of the hospital were nearly refrigerated. Outside of the hospital, his life was a mess. Of course, I knew nothing about lupus, and wasn’t clear why he was even in the hospital or when he could go, but I knew his voice, the way he would pace the halls.

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Discharges Hospital Medication 233

Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 26, 2024

This concept aims to alleviate workflow burdens for physicians.

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Hospital 266

Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 16, 2024

An outbreak of Salmonella Africana and Salmonella Braenderup linked to cucumbers has extended to 31 states and the District of Columbia, according to the CDC and FDA.

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Hospital 244

Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 7, 2025

Palm identification is a novel and unprecedented method for secure identity management.

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Hospital 247

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2024

More than a third of nurses say now they see patients treated in areas like corridors, store cupboards and car parks as part of a normal shift.

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Hospital 250

Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2024

The new shot, which has already been given to more than 100,000 women in the U.S., can dramatically reduce the risk of serious lung problems.

Hospital 266

Hospital 266

Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 13, 2024

People from certain ethnic groups and those living in deprived areas are waiting longer for public healthcare in England, an analysis has shown.

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Hospital 225

Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 2, 2024

With its $100 million fund, Aegis Ventures will help health systems, including Northwell, Stanford, Ochsner and Ohio State, build startups from scratch.

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Hospital 298

Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The first five Health Cubes have been shipped to customers like the Italian aid group Aiutiamoli a Vivere Foundation, which will deploy the mobile clinics.

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Hospital Medication 259

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 19, 2025

Our day began at the outpatient clinic of the UCSF’s San Francisco General Hospital. At 12:00, we crossed the street to enter the inpatient part of the hospital. He doubted that the hospital would allow us to prescribe such a costly drug. To me, it was a glimpse into the sheer size and scope of the hospital machine.

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Hospital Scheduling Insurance Medication 174

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 20, 2025

” However, if I complained to my colleagues that I had to do normal hospital things and, further, noted that I resented these same colleagues because my proximity to bodily fluids makes my job nobler than theirs, no one would want to work with me. We know more about hospital governance than most doctors do.

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Hospital Patient Care Huddles/Rounds Follow-Up 163

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JANUARY 9, 2025

The year-long inquiry into hospitals managed by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners comes amid growing calls for increased oversight of private equity in healthcare.

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Hospital 142