Dallas-based Steward Health Care employees did not receive their May 9 paychecks on time due to a "processing error" with Bank of America after the health system filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy May 6.

Sun City Center, Fla.-based HCA Florida South Shore Hospital, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, named David Link its new vice president of operations April 21.

In the week ended May 4, the Labor Department reported weekly unemployment claims hit 231,000, an increase of 22,000 from the previous week and the highest number of jobless claims since August at 234,000.

A recent study found colorectal cancer rates have risen between 45% and 500% for people too young for routine screenings, NBC News reported May 9.

University of Chicago Medicine is partnering with Abridge to use the latter's Epic-integrated generative artificial intelligence platform to aid with clinical documentation. 

Surgeons' co-pilots are in shortage. 

Hospitals and health systems are making changes in their C-suite and leadership ranks based on organizational needs in today's healthcare environment. Some of the changes have involved  adding inaugural roles to their C-suites. 

In January, Neuralink implanted its brain-computer device into a human for the first time. In the weeks following the surgery, a number of threads on the implant retracted from the patient's brain, the company said May 8. 

A little-known parasitic infection in the brain has come into the spotlight following presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.'s admission that he once suffered from it, NBC News reported May 8.

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals has been expediting its switch from Change Healthcare because of the cyberattack on the claims processing vendor.

Almost 1 in 10 Mass General Brigham attending physicians are experimenting with generative AI that listens to patient visits and uploads notes to EHRs, The Wall Street Journal reported May 8.

A U.S. House committee approved a bill May 8 that would extend health systems' ability to provide telehealth and hospital-at-home care.

The FDA is instructing healthcare facilities to avoid using two heart devices from Getinge amid concerns that the company has not adequately resolved issues that spurred a string of recalls over the last year.

R1 RCM is allowing its two biggest shareholders to discuss a potential joint buyout of the company, according to a regulatory filing. 

After Oracle acquired Cerner for $28.4 billion in June 2022, the company lost at least a dozen of the EHR vendor's large clients, Bloomberg reported May 9.

A last-minute bill drawn up by the Minnesota House Finance and Policy Committee could create another roadblock for ongoing efforts to dissolve the Hennepin Healthcare System board of directors' oversight of Minneapolis-based Hennepin County Medical Center, the Star Tribune reported May 8. 

Some nurses are pushing for federal agencies to recognize the vocation as a STEM profession, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported April 30. 

Survey data trends suggest fewer nurses intend to leave the field compared to last year.

Twenty-eight hospitals have converted to the rural emergency designation since the law that created the designation took effect in January 2023, according to data from CMS.

The Fair Political Practices Commission has rejected a union's complaint that alleges Bakersfield, Calif.-based Kern County Hospital Authority overpaid its executives through their own private consulting firms.