STAT+: HHS plans to open up billions in hospital Covid-19 grants in coming weeks
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration plans to open applications for billions of dollars in grants…
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STAT+: ‘In their own bubble’: How a cancer center promoted an exclusive experimental drug to attract patients
A new medication for children with a rare and life-threatening cancer called neuroblastoma had a…
STAT+: Biden’s Medicaid pressure tactics could put his team at odds with hospitals
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is pressuring states to expand Medicaid — and it’s setting…
STAT+: 5 startups seizing the moment to shake up the electronic health record industry
The road to shake up the health record industry is littered with failures. But a…
Opinion: Academic medical centers need to go beyond statements condemning racism
As predictable as mushrooms popping up after rain, condemnation of racism from leaders at academic…
STAT+: More surveillance is coming to the operating room. Surgeons warn that’s risky
Much of what happens in the operating room is shrouded in mystery: The patient goes…
STAT+: Why hospitals hate Bernie Sanders’ latest health reform push
WASHINGTON — Progressives in Congress, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, have ramped up pressure on…
STAT+: The future of voice tech in medicine is here. Can reality live up to the promise?
Microsoft’s high-profile of acquisition of Nuance Communications is a seeming win for patients and providers….
STAT+: The lobbying juggernaut the American Hospital Association is losing its top advocate at a critical moment for the industry
WASHINGTON — Tom Nickels helped build the American Hospital Association into one of the biggest…
STAT+: Heralding a ‘societal transformation’ in health care, Mayo Clinic launches two companies to harness patient data
Mayo Clinic is forming a pair of companies to collect and analyze data from remote…
STAT+: Massachusetts General Hospital president Peter Slavin to depart after 18 years
The president of Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Peter L. Slavin, plans to step down after…
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Opinion: Listen: Antibiotic experts on the threat of antimicrobial resistant superbugs
This week’s “First Opinion Podcast” takes a look at antimicrobial resistance, a topic that should…
STAT+: Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
As chief of Boston Children’s Hospital, one of the most esteemed pediatric hospitals in the…
Opinion: Tax exemptions for nonprofit hospitals: It’s time taxpayers get their money’s worth
Many U.S. hospitals provide charity care to financially disadvantaged patients without the expectation of getting…
Kids in the ER are waiting longer for mental health care
Children taken to the emergency room for mental health concerns are more likely to be…
Opinion: Fee or free? The services hospital-based psychologists provide are ‘priceless’
Hospital-based psychologists are sorely undervalued, not just for the care they provide their patients and…
Opinion: Many hospitalized Covid-19 patients are given antibiotics. That’s a problem
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues into its second year, public health experts are increasingly concerned…
STAT+: 5 health care projects to watch at Google Cloud
If the pieces come together, Google will be as omnipresent in health care as it…
STAT+: Senate reaches deal to extend Medicare pay bump for health care providers through 2021
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders have reached an agreement to extend a Medicare pay bump for…
Opinion: Palliative care works, so why is it rarely used? Follow the money
A decade ago, a team of researchers showed clearly that a new treatment for advanced…
What we know and don’t know about long Covid
It doesn’t have a formal name or a definition. No one can predict who will…
STAT+: Antibiotic stewardship may be improving at U.S. hospitals, but new targets are still needed
Amid increasing concern over antibiotic resistance, a new analysis found that nearly 56% of the…
STAT+: Xavier Becerra’s 4 most urgent challenges as Biden’s soon-to-be HHS secretary
WASHINGTON — Xavier Becerra has survived the worst of a tense confirmation battle to become…
STAT+: Hospitals’ push to boost Medicare pay through December faces uncertain fate in the Senate
WASHINGTON — Hospitals successfully lobbied to get a House vote next week to prolong a…
STAT+: Antibiotic prescribing during the pandemic raises concern about drug resistance
Amid rising worries over antibiotic resistance, a new study suggests the drugs were overprescribed to…
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With the ear of Joe Manchin, West Virginia hospitals helped secure billions in new Covid relief funds
WASHINGTON — West Virginia University Health System doesn’t have the name recognition of the Mayo…
STAT+: Health care industry scores lobbying wins in Senate on drug pricing, provider funds, insurance subsidies
WASHINGTON — Health care industry lobbying groups are poised to score big wins in the…
The Trump administration quietly spent billions in hospital funds on Operation Warp Speed
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration quietly took around $10 billion from a fund meant to…
Andrew Cuomo’s Covid-19 nursing home fiasco shows the ethical perils of pandemic policymaking
WASHINGTON — The humbling of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on pandemic policy has been…
‘We need to get in the room’: Hospital chaplains struggle to balance Covid safety with patients’ spiritual needs
Infection fears have never slowed down Rev. Moneka Thompson. For more than 10 years, she’s…
How Covid-19 could usher in a new role for continuous glucose monitoring in hospitals
In early May, a wing of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center was eerily empty….
STAT+: Google reveals new progress on controversial project using patient data
More than a year after facing widespread criticism over its patient data-sharing arrangement with hospital…
Opinion: Lung transplants after Covid-19 raise difficult issues
When the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in the spring,…
Opinion: The pandemic slingshot: propelling from national crisis to a resilient health care system
A year into the Covid-19 pandemic and the U.S. is still battling this crisis. As…
FDA issues alert on ‘limitations’ of pulse oximeters, without explicit mention of racial bias
Two months after Democratic lawmakers expressed concern about potential racial disparities in pulse oximeter readings…
STAT+: Backed by big hospitals, a former Microsoft executive wades into the messy business of selling patient data
He was once dubbed “the most important man at Microsoft,” a prodigiously talented software engineer…
‘These numbers are incredibly important’: Doctors and lawmakers call on FDA to address racial disparities in pulse oximeters
A long-documented, under-the-radar disparity is garnering new attention as the Covid-19 pandemic stretches into another…
Opinion: A buddy system can help doctors and nurses weather the Covid-19 maelstrom
Remember outings in elementary school or at camp? You were probably paired with another kid…
Opinion: Truth and transparency after Covid-19: Mending the relationship between hospitals and the communities they serve
In April 2020, Víctor Santamaría was in an intensive care unit at Weill Cornell Medical…
Why some hospitals have to scramble for oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients
As Covid-19 cases began spiking last month, Mara Bryant and her hospital staff had to…
Elective, but not optional: Orthopedic patients eagerly await surgeries delayed by Covid-19
Robin Young wants you to know she thinks her second knee replacement is the least…
STAT+: PhRMA sues to block Trump administration 340B rule
WASHINGTON — The trade group for the pharmaceutical industry on Friday sued to block a …
STAT+: How much? Hospitals mark up some medicines by 250% on average
As Americans grapple with the rising cost of prescription drugs, a new analysis found that…
STAT+: After repeated delays, Trump’s HHS punts on oversight of a massive Covid-19 response fund for hospitals
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services acted with lightning speed to send…
Opinion: Even during a pandemic, hospitals must make family visits and communication the standard of care
Since the start of the pandemic, nearly 340,000 Americans have died of Covid-19, many of…
‘A supreme form of advocacy’: When finding a psychiatric bed seems impossible, one state’s patients have a partner
Hallie-Beth Hollister is a master at cold calling. She has to be. She and a…
STAT+: HHS rebukes drug makers for curtailing discounts to hospitals that serve low-income communities
After months of controversy, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a stern rebuke…
Opinion: Instead of debating ‘first-shot’ vs. ‘set-aside’ vaccine approaches, hospitals’ study should compare them
The FDA authorizations of two Covid-19 vaccines so far specify two-shot regimens, spaced three weeks…
Opinion: We stress tested banks in 2009. We need to do the same thing now for U.S. hospital systems
Following the market turmoil after the failure of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008,…
‘Every day is an emergency’: The pandemic is worsening psychiatric bed shortages nationwide
The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically cut the availability of inpatient psychiatric beds, with facilities across…