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CNO
Infographic: 10 Financial Healthcare Challenges that CNOs Need to Know
New legislation, higher operational costs, and continued labor shortages are some of the many financial challenges facing healthcare today.
CEO
Healthcare Bankruptcies Ease, But Providers Still Feel the Squeeze
Even as filings in the industry fell for a second consecutive year in 2025, hospital bankruptcies increased to signal further...
Technology
Infographic: Are Your Clinicians/Executives Using Shadow AI?
A Wolters Kluwer survey finds that some people are using AI tools that haven?t been approved by management, potentially exposing...
CEO
HCA Projects Resilient 2026 Despite Warning of ACA, Medicaid Headwinds
Following its fourth-quarter earnings report, the for-profit giant revealed the looming financial impact of policy changes and how resiliency initiatives...
Technology
Survey Highlights Disturbing Use of 'Shadow AI' for Hospital Execs
More than 40% of healthcare execs and clinicians surveyed say they know of a colleague who has used unapproved AI....
Technology
Proposed Budget Bill Extends Telehealth, Hospital at Home Flexibilities Again
Congress is moving toward a vote on a funding package that would, among other things, extend COVID-era telehealth waivers through...
CNO
Working With Mandated Staffing Ratios: A CNO Perspective
For many bedside nurses, mandated staffing ratios sound like salvation: fewer patients, safer care, and less burnout. But for chief...
Technology
Infographic: The Long (And Ongoing) Road to Virtual Prescribing
Healthcare providers have been waiting almost two decades for a clear regulatory pathway to prescribe controlled medications via telemedicine without...
CNO
How Excluding Nursing from Professional Degree Program Loan Eligibility Will Impact Nurses and Patients
The Department of Education's ruling will heavily impact the future of the nursing workforce, says this nurse leader.
CNO
HL Shorts: Why Is Full Practice Authority Important for Nurse Practitioners?
Full practice authority would mean NPs could practice independently from physicians, says this nurse practitioner.
Innovation
Providers Get Good News on Hospital at Home, Telemedicine Prescription Waivers
A proposed five-year extension of the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) waiver has passed the House and is...
Payer
Medicaid Work Rules Exempt the 'Medically Frail.' Deciding Who Qualifies Is Tricky.
Lacking sufficient federal guidance, states are wrestling with how to define medical frailty.