Analysis of 2019 traditional Medicare data revealed that patients averaged approximately 17 ambulatory contact days annually. When including institutional care such as hospital and emergency ...

Nurses at UnityPoint Health hospitals in Des Moines, Iowa are forming a union with Teamsters Local 90 to address concerns over wages and staffing. They aim to ...

In a series of announcements late Nov. 22, President-elect Donald Trump shared his nominations for three of the nation's top health positions: CDC director, FDA commissioner and surgeon general. Here ...

Here are the most common passwords in the U.S., according to a November report from cybersecurity firms NordPass and NordStellar that analyzed 2.5 terabytes worth of publicly available data, including ...

Learn about President-elect Trump's pick for FDA head, Dr. Marty Makary, a pancreatic surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins — and a telehealth executive.

HHS has issued a final rule that removes clinical research requirements for kidney and liver transplants from donors with HIV to recipients with HIV. The new policy is designed to expand access to ...

Learn about the new Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act of 2024, introduced by four U.S. senators to strengthen the healthcare sector's cyber defenses.

Using Cosmos, Epic's anonymized dataset that includes 277 million patients across 1,591 hospitals, researchers can generate and share findings faster than the traditional peer-reviewed journal process ...

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health, a five-hospital system, reported an operating income of $167.1 million (5.3% margin) in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, improving on the $112.3M operating gain ...

This Becker's Podcast episode dives into updates to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set for 2025. Coding experts, Elaine Dunn and Jessica Edmiston from nimble solutions, a leading ...

Baxter has implemented new allocation levels for several U.S. IV product groups, effective Nov. 26, as part of recovery efforts at its North Carolina manufacturing site. The company notified ...