A report commissioned by the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association found it would cost the state’s hospitals nearly $1 billion a year to comply with a proposed ballot initiative to set limits on the number of patients a hospital can assign to a nurse per shift.

Mobile device usage for nurses and clinicians is expected to top 90 percent in 2022, according to The Future of Healthcare: 2022 Hospital Vision Study conducted by Zebra Technologies.

American Well and Philips have partnered to offer new parents 24/7 telehealth coverage for their babies through the Philips Avent uGrow application.

Eleven months after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) selected Cerner to replace its in-house electronic health record system, the $16 billion contract hasn’t been finalized. According to Politico, two men in the social circle of President Donald Trump may be to blame for holding up the project—and neither man officially works for his administration.

Perioperative music reduced anxiety and pain in patients undergoing surgery, according to a study published in the British Journal of Surgery.

In a speech at AcademyHealth’s Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C., CMS Administrator Seema Verma said giving researchers the same access to data for other federal health programs that they can currently utilize for fee-for-service Medicare can help support “the creation of tools to help consumer make better care decisions.”

3D printing and computer modeling could predict paravalvular leak (PVL) in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), according to a study presented at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) Scientific Sessions.

Researchers have developed a tool capable of evaluating patients' electronic health records (EHR) note comprehension to provide insight into where improvements can be made. Findings were published April 24 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.