By Erica Carbajal for Becker’s Hospital Review A New Mexico county for the third consecutive year took the top spot in U.S. News & World Report and CVS Health’s 2022 “Healthiest Communities Rankings.” This marks the fifth annual edition of the rankings.…
By Patsy Newitt for Becker’s Hospital Review Plastic surgery is the specialty with the most physicians most likely to report net worth exceeding $5 million, according to Medscape’s “Physician Wealth & Debt Report 2021.” The report, released June 10, includes responses from…
By Susan Morse for Becker’s Hospital Review Hospitals will experience a slowing of inpatient admissions but an increase in the length of adult inpatient stays, the latter being fueled in part by long COVID-19 and a rise in chronic conditions,…
By Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations globally increased by 94 percent year over year, according to a 2022 report from cybersecurity firm Sophos. The report surveyed 5,600 IT professionals and included interviews with 381 healthcare IT…
By Jina Sawani for Lab Blog According to a 2022 Medscape poll, burnout rates among physicians are steadily increasing. The publication defines burnout as a “long-term, unresolvable job-related stress that leads to exhaustion, cynicism and feelings of detachment.” This mental health concern…
By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling…
From For the Record The American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced an editorial update to CPT, the nation’s leading medical terminology code set for describing health care procedures and services, that includes new product and administration codes assigned to the Moderna…
By Dawn Crump, MA, CHC, SSBB for For the Record Wonder Woman has a golden lasso. Captain America has an impenetrable shield. Thor has a lightning hammer. Just as these magical tools bolster superheroes’ defenses, insights gleaned from internal audits…
By Mike Millard for Healthcare IT News ChristianaCare this week announced some new help to augment its workforce: robotic assistants that can help nurses and other hospital staff spend more time with patients by automatic certain time-intensive tasks. WHY IT…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Internal actors continue to pose a sticky cybersecurity problem for healthcare companies despite not causing a majority of data breaches, according to a new data breach report from Verizon. Employees were responsible…
