Inpatient admissions lift for-profit providers’ revenue during Q1 Executives were split on whether the CMS’ two-midnight rule, which mandates inpatient care when a clinician believes a Medicare beneficiary needs hospital care that will likely last for two midnights, ... 05/13/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
CEOs, CFOs optimistic about financial rebound Health system CEOs and CFOs are optimistic about hospital financials rebounding and margins improving in 2024, according to VMG Health ... 05/13/2024 - 3:41 am | View Link
Disability rights groups worry about an Ohio bill to expand involuntary psychiatric commitment State lawmakers are considering a bill to make it easier to involuntarily hospitalize people with mental illness – and disability rights advocates are seriously concerned. 05/8/2024 - 11:30 pm | View Link
Australia news live: Labor councillor stands by vote to ban same-sex parenting books in Sydney council libraries Save the Children Australia is today launching an appeal in the federal court in Melbourne, seeking to compel the government to repatriate a group of Australian children and their mothers from ... 05/7/2024 - 2:07 pm | View Link
Former NC psych hospital staff allege they were told to falsify patient records Former employees of Jacksonville’s Brynn Marr Hospital allege that the facility engaged in patient record falsification and insurance manipulation. Their accounts appear to mirror past issues with the ... 05/7/2024 - 8:51 am | View Link
A lawsuit weaponizes environmental law in opposition of new urban housing.
Los Angeles-based grocer Erewhon has a reputation for health, wellness, and sustainability, selling high-end organic produce and celeb-favorite smoothies. By supporting organic and regenerative farms, and cutting down on plastic, the company claims it showcases its belief in “protecting the health of our precious planet.”
Sorry athletes. It’s hard to compete with a well-tailored medical professional.
While brands like Nike plan to dominate the Olympics with blinding new shoes on the track, Figs wants to own the sidelines through sleek medical scrubs. The medical apparel brand company just debuted a new line of red, white, and blue uniforms that Team USA doctors will wear in Paris—and in a dramatic, slow-mo walk scene, our medical professionals will finally get the full hero treatment.
Would you trust an on-device AI to listen to your calls to stop scams in progress or to record all of your computing activity so you never forget any of it?
Google and Microsoft have spent the last few weeks unspooling enormous ambitions for artificial intelligence, but their smallest-scale showings of this technology—what they call on-device AI, but which you can also think of as offline or cloud-free AI—look the most interesting.
Solutions to big problems will come from breaking down disciplinary boundaries.
A colleague once lamented about a controversy in their academic department (computer science) involving a potential new hire. The candidate in question was formally trained in physics but had a strong record studying information theory, which was of interest to the department.
Both chains began selling Beyond Meat in 2019, but now have either scaled back significantly or stopped selling it entirely.
When Del Taco began serving Beyond Meat in 2019, it was the first major Mexican fast-food chain in the country to serve a plant-based beef taco option. (It also called the offering the “future of tacos.”) The company was early when it came to all restaurant chains adopting Beyond Meat, along with brands like Dunkin’, which served a plant-based sausage, and Carl’s Jr., which offered the company’s plant-based beef burger.
Enlarge / A Waymo autonomous taxi in San Francisco. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Tesla fans—and CEO Elon Musk himself—are excited about the prospects for Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) software. Tesla released a major upgrade—version 12.3—of the software in March. Then, last month, Musk announced that Tesla would unveil a purpose-built robotaxi on August 8.