While generative AI continues to deliver massive boosts to workplace productivity as adoption climbs, the trade-offs for security are becoming increasingly evident, as well, according to software security pioneer Chris Wysopal.
Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s CEO and others must be deposed in a lawsuit alleging that the company fired two employees in retaliation for making complaints about alleged unsanitary hospital conditions, a federal district court said. This decision is another in a string of recent rulings rejecting the so-called Apex Doctrine, a principle that top corporate officers are generally too busy and important to be forced to give testimony. Denise Bonds and Shenia Rhodes, who worked as housekeepers at a Detroit hospital, allege that the defendants engaged in cost-cutting measures that made the hospital unsafe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The FDA has approved Johnson & Johnson's new tab device for a type of condition which causes abnormal heart rhythm, the company said on Thursday. The device, Varipulse, is a pulsed field ablation system. Medical device makers such as Boston Scientific and Medtronic also have devices approved for atrial fibrillation, a condition that is characterized by an irregular rhythm of the heart.
During his campaign, Trump vowed to make the Affordable Care Act "better" and to protect "women." He also suggested that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would shape the public health agenda of his administration.
Insurers focused on the Medicare market jumped on the expectation that the government will pay higher rates to companies that provide private versions of the U.S. health program for seniors. UnitedHealth Group Inc. shares rose as much as 6.6% when markets opened Wednesday in New York, while shares of Humana Inc. gained as much as 12%. CVS Health Corp. shares added as much as 14%, their biggest intraday gain in 24 years.
All but two nonprofit health systems in Southeastern Pennsylvania improved their financial results in the fiscal year that ended June 30. Despite the improvement, six of 11 systems tracked by The Inquirer still lost money and two — Jefferson Health and Temple University Health System — effectively broke even. The sector is trying to work though a surge in wages and other expenses that happened near the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.