March 19 is certified Nurse Appreciation Day, a day to recognize nurses' hard work.
Nurses are on the front line of hospitals, working with patients in their most vulnerable moments.
Assaults on healthcare workers have been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to health officials.
According to Press Ganey, an Indiana-based healthcare company, in 2022, two nurses were assaulted in the workplace every hour across the United States.
Over 200 Johns Hopkins employees will be laid off in May, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification. The Bloomberg School of Public Health and JHPIEGO, a nonprofit global health affiliate of the Baltimore institution, are primarily affected by the first batch of mass layoffs. JHPIEGO will experience 130 employee layoffs, while the school of public health will have 107.
Tim Noel knows his new job as UnitedHealthcare CEO isn't going to be much like his predecessor's role. Noel was promoted to the position previously held by Brian Thompson, who was killed in an early morning shooting in December on his way to a UnitedHealth investor conference in Manhattan. Thompson's death prompted a social media outcry about health insurers denying care, causing Noel to look inward about his job and industry.
Quest Diagnostics is partnering with Google Cloud to enhance Quest's data management, refine data analytics, and provide personalized experiences to patients, providers, and other customers. The venture marks one of the first times a national laboratory provider has employed these technologies across various operations and administrative areas such as R&D, customer experience, and operations. All these while ensuring data privacy and security.
Patients can access their own health records — including test results — as soon as they're available. While it might sound beneficial, in some cases, people are receiving life-changing diagnoses before their doctors have a chance to speak with them. The accessibility is due to legislation that went into effect in 2021 called the 21st Century Cures Act. It is designed to give patients easier access to electronic health records and quicker access to medical innovations, but experts say it comes with an unintended side effect.
Three hundred and twenty-one cases have been reported in the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, the states said Tuesday. This is an increase of 25 cases since an update on Friday.