Hospitals have more digital tools than ever, yet throughput continues to suffer. Since 2017, emergency department encounters lasting over eight hours have nearly doubled, inpatient units are strained ...

Vicki Harrison knows what it’s like to go to the hospital for a 30-minute procedure but remain there for hours instead. Now she and business partner Dr. Mark Stega run a company that aims to stop the ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated that robots can help with decision making on a hospital's labor and delivery floor. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science ...

It’s an understatement to say that today’s health care industry is not architected in a way that is conducive to efficient workflows – and that’s a problem for consumers, health care professionals and ...

Administrative tasks play a key role in ensuring that hospitals run efficiently. However, rising operational costs and staffing shortages—which, as of 2022, vary from 1.5% in New York to a critical 64 ...

Ride-sharing app Lyft announced Thursday that it would be integrating with Epic to allow healthcare staff to schedule rides for patients directly from their electronic health record. According to the ...

Hospitals possess a wide variety of resources, such as lab diagnostic devices, air conditioners, escalators, and firefighting equipment — to mention a few. Additionally, they have more complex items ...