hospitals

Hospitals are institutions that provide medical and surgical treatment to patients with various diseases and injuries. They are essential components of the healthcare system, offering inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care.

Why it’s in the news: Hospitals are in the news due to regulatory scrutiny over pricing practices, public health crises like measles, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, criminal incidents, and significant IT errors.

Latest on hospitals

• STAT+: Hospitals sue – again – to halt Trump administration’s 340B rebate pilot
• Robots Give Hospitals More Capacity Without Adding Beds
• STAT+: Can you live longer for $5,500? Longevity clinics are the buzzy new trend at nonprofit hospitals
• FTC Issues Letters Warning Hospitals Against Deceptive Pricing Practices
• Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal
• AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready
• The event focused on new risks for hospitals and health systems.
• Hospitals spent billions on disaster recovery systems that left them defenseless against AI-powered attacks.
• The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.
• Healthcare providers and hospitals are increasingly adopting AI systems for diagnostics, administrative tasks, and patient care
• Officials worry that malicious actors could use these AI capabilities to exploit weaknesses in software systems supporting critical services including financial institutions, hospitals, and energy networks
• Hospitals are already deploying AI systems that change their behavior between audits

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