As emergency room doctors nationwide plead for help to ease patient overcrowding, the one federal program that could fix the crisis is poised to lose funding. Across the U.S., ER patients who need to ...

One hospital's push to transition patients who are nearing the end of life from the emergency room to hospice care appears to be working. After the program went into effect, 54% of ER patients at ...

HOSPITAL IS HOPING TO HELP PATIENTS FAST.. WITH WHAT IT CALLS A "VIRTUAL E-R". THEY ROLLED IT OUT IN JANUARY, A CHANCE FOR EMERGENCY ROOM PATIENTS TO START THEIR CARE WITH A VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT AT ...

Artificial intelligence programs can help doctors and nurses predict hours earlier which ER patients will likely require hospital admission, a new study says. An AI program trained on nearly 2 million ...