May 7, 2024-  Mayo Clinic and Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville announced a 10-year extension of their three-decade collaboration to improve healthcare in the region and train future generations of physicians and healthcare workers. The collaboration will continue to focus on medical training, research and clinical care, specifically in pediatrics, where there are … [Read more...]

May 7, 2024- Fortune Magazine and PINC AI have ranked Intermountain Medical Center in Murray as the number one major teaching hospital in the nation for 2024. Nine other Intermountain hospitals in Utah were ranked among the nation’s best hospitals on this year’s top 100 hospitals list, according to PINC AI and Fortune. The Fortune rankings analyzed publicly available data from … [Read more...]

May 7, 2024- Thermo Fisher has released a simple, urine-based assay that detects the CXCL10 chemokine may make care more convenient and less invasive for the nearly 250,000 Americans living with a kidney transplant. For organ transplant recipients, life post-transplant involves a delicate balance between invasive monitoring and immunosuppression to reduce the risk of rejection, … [Read more...]

May 7, 2024- The Vizient/American Association of College Nursing (AACN) Nurse Residency Program™  announced the integration of Maryland's R3 Resilient Nurses Initiative curriculum into its content offering. The collaboration elevates NRP's support of newly licensed nurses transitioning from classroom to clinical practice to promote quality and safety and reduce … [Read more...]

May 6, 2024- The Sysmex multi-item automatic blood cell analyzer XN-31 is capable of measuring and quantitatively displaying red blood cells infected with malaria parasites, etc. The measurement is performed fully automatically and does not require advanced skills. It enables high-sensitivity testing in a short time of approximately 1 minute. XN-31 was the first in Japan to … [Read more...]

May 7, 2024- Dallas-based Steward Healthcare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as announced in a May 6 press release. According to Steward Health, the company "took this voluntary step May 6 as a necessary measure to allow the Company to continue to provide necessary care to its patients in their communities without disruption.  Steward does not expect any interruptions … [Read more...]

May 7, 2024- Please join The Journal of Healthcare Contracting and our esteemed panelists on June 3 at 2:00 PM ET for a webinar discussing how they are deploying technology in these trying times to thrive in their procurement processes and activities. Providers have resigned themselves that they will have to continue to achieve an increased workload with less resources. This … [Read more...]

May 6, 2024- An American Hospital Association (AHA) Report revealed that hospitals and health systems continue to experience significant financial pressures, challenging their ability to provide patient care. Data from 2023 showed that hospitals and health systems continued to face high costs for labor, drugs, and supplies. Additionally, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements did … [Read more...]

May 6, 2024- For decades, experts have said that leadership is intangible and therefore un-measurable. But if you look at any great leader, you see that leadership is clearly measurable. Leaders are determined by their followers. No committed customers. No sales leadership. In business, leadership occurs at all levels – from the executive suite to the shop floor – and at … [Read more...]

May 6, 2024- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took action aimed at helping to ensure the safety and effectiveness of laboratory developed tests, or LDTs, which are used in a growing number of health care decisions and about which concerns have been raised for many years.  LDTs are in vitro diagnostic products (IVDs) that the FDA has described as intended for clinical … [Read more...]