Withdrawal From WHO Raises New Questions for U.S. Healthcare Strategy
The United States has formally begun its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, ending nearly 80 years of membership and reshaping its role in global health governance. While the move is rooted in political and financial critiques, healthcare leaders are now assessing what reduced engagement with the WHO could mean for pandemic preparedness, data sharing, and global health security.
How AdventHealth’s Clinical Ladder Programs Flipped the Script on Nurse Turnover
When health systems lose nurses, it has sweeping effects on the organization’s culture and budget. The average cost of turnover for a single bedside RN is $61,110, which stacks with the cost of overtime labor or contract labor to help cover the care gap.
A Healthcare Tech Challenge: Cleaning Out the (App) Basement
Hospitals sit atop an IT infrastructure that keeps the EHR and all other tech platforms functioning smoothly. But what happens during an upgrade, a change of vendors, or when an app needs to be removed?
Dangerous AI Chatbots Top ECRI’s 2026 List of Tech Hazards
The growing use of AI chatbots for dispensing medical advice is raising red flags in the healthcare industry. Simply put, you don’t know where that data has been. That’s why misuse of AI chatbots in healthcare has secured the top spot in ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards of 2026.
Health Systems Must Remain Vigilant for COVID-19 Cases
To remain vigilant for coronavirus cases, health systems and hospitals must have surveillance efforts in place to detect surges of the disease in their patient populations, according to clinical leaders at Cincinnati-based UC Health and New York City-based NYU Langone Health.
Tampa General’s New AI Bot Makes a Connection With Patients
Aimee is an AI tool developed by Hyro and launched last year at TGH to address call center operations. It’s Aimee’s job to answer phone calls that the call center’s human operators can’t get to, and to quickly and efficiently direct the caller to the right resource.
The Exec: New Vanderbilt Health Physician-in-Chief Shares Keys to Critical Care Success
To provide effective critical care services, health systems and hospitals need to provide the latest guideline-directed care and assess outcomes, according the new physician-in-chief at Vanderbilt Health.
For Some Health Systems, AI Is Personal
It’s a strategy that many healthcare organizations – large and small – are embracing, especially as the AI market grows and the technology becomes more sophisticated. Health systems are turning to “bake-offs,” or small pilot projects that pit one product against another, or a few against each other.
How Hospital CEOs Can Build Cybersecurity Resilience
What were once isolated incidents have evolved into organized, well-funded attacks that are increasingly exploitative. At the same time, AI and widely available attack tools have lowered the barrier to entry, making phishing and social engineering harder to detect.
Nemours Moves Beyond the Hospital at Home Concept
The Hospital at Home model may not be everybody’s cup of tea, and several health systems and hospitals are finding value in less complex programs that focus on reducing hospital length of stay and improving home-based care.