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Five Key Skills for Pharmacy Residents

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Pharmacy residents have the chanceto practice at the top of their license and deliver outstanding patient care. In Saudi Arabia the program was established in 1997 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh [3]. References 1. What Is a Residency and How Do I Get One? Mcelhaney A, Weber R.

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Cyberattack disrupts patient care at London hospitals

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NHS hospitals in London have declared a critical incident caused by a ransomware attack on a pathology services provider, leading to cancelled procedures and patients having to be transferred to different care providers.

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AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare's cyberattack

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Nearly every hospital is feeling the consequences of Change Healthcare’s cyberattack on their finances, patient care delivery, or both, according to reports from almost 1,000 hospitals compiled by | Almost 60% of surveyed hospitals reported at least $1 million of impacted revenues per day, and 74% said that the incident has had "direct" implications (..)

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STAT+: Hospitals try a new pitch to investors: other ways of making money

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SAN FRANCISCO — If you learned anything about nonprofit hospitals on the first day of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, it’s that they’ve all but abandoned the prospect of making significant profit on patient care.

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Hospitals' patient experience, preventable infection improving after pandemic struggles, Leapfrog finds

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The latest batch of Hospital Safety Grades from independent watchdog The Leapfrog Group suggest that patientscare experiences, which deteriorated during and since the pandemic, may finally be tur | New data from the watchdog reflecting CMS-reported patient safety measures show that hospitals are, on average, working their way back from patient experience (..)

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CMS, HHS can use existing federal authority to regulate AI safety in hospitals: JAMA

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As artificial intelligence rapidly makes inroads in healthcare, federal agencies already have the authority to regulator AI at the hospital bedside, according to some healthcare researche | An article published in JAMA Health Forum argues that through the conditions of participation in Medicare and Medicaid, CMS has the authority to oversee how hospitals (..)

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AI claims top spot by far in annual survey of what excites hospital executives

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Artificial intelligence soared to the top spot in an annual survey that measures what emerging technology excites hospital executives as having the potential to transform the industry.

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