At a time when healthcare providers are facing staff shortages and patients continue to demand better quality of care, AI is being seen as the go-to answer.
Healthcare provider Optum has backed away from its plan to purchase Steward Health Care’s national physicians group, dealing a major setback to Steward’s efforts to bolster its finances after filing for bankruptcy.
Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine found that a targeted gene therapy may make acute myeloid leukemia more sensitive to chemotherapy, while also protecting the heart against toxicity often caused by cancer treatments.
Massachusetts state officials and major healthcare industry groups have agreed to a 90-day approach to address severe emergency department capacity challenges by redirecting certain patients in eastern Massachusetts to urgent care providers.