Board of Commissioners voted Aug. 12 to take over and dissolve Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare’s board amid financial difficulties at the system. The takeover grants the county board direct ...

The FDA has approved Ketarx, a ketamine-based drug developed by drugmaker PharmaTher, for use in pain management. The medication is now cleared by the FDA for clinical use in perioperative settings, ...

One of the biggest challenges for hospitals across the U.S. is adding capacity to serve more patients with a higher degree of quality outcomes. Sacramento-based Sutter Health is cracking the code to ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has created a new C-suite role: associate chief health informatics officer for EHR platform and innovation. Stephon Proctor, PhD, assumed the position on July 1. In ...

Spokane, Wash.-based Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center has fired 15 nurses for violating HIPAA, The Spokesman-Review in Spokane reported. The hospital claims the nurses improperly accessed the ...

An oversight committee representing the bankrupt Mercy Iowa City hospital has filed a complaint seeking to recover at least $55 million from MercyOne, Iowa Heart Center and a former hospital CEO.

Epic is incorporating AI into charting in its EHR to make clinicians’ jobs easier, the company said. “AI in Epic is like a new digital workforce that’s part of the care team,” Brad Fox, MD, director ...

Three-quarters of the hospitals on U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-26 Honor Roll list also earned top marks in CMS’ latest Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings, underscoring a notable overlap in ...

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health doubled its rate of early-stage lung cancer diagnoses after implementing an AI-powered tracking tool within its Epic EHR. The tool has led to more than 70% of ...

St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare is laying off 535 employees across the health system in response to “significant external pressures” including rising costs and reimbursements rates “that no longer ...

When surveyed, nurses consistently identified six areas where hospitals could improve equitable patient care quality for disadvantaged patients. The study, conducted between April and June 2021 by ...

OpenAI plans to back a competitor to Elon Musk’s Neuralink in the brain-computer interface market, the Financial Times reported. Merge Labs aims to raise $250 million for a valuation of $850 million, ...