Jane Gray brings nearly 30 years of hospital financial experience to her role as vice president of revenue cycle at Albany, Ga.-based Phoebe Putney Health System.

St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colo., has appointed Bryan Johnson president, according to the Business Times.

The Joint Commission will accept nominations for the 2019 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award through Oct. 1.

Mountain Vista Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz., has selected William Comer to serve as president.

Last September, Ascension named Eduardo Conrado to the system's newly created position of executive vice president and chief digital officer. In July 2019, he was promoted to executive vice president and chief strategy and innovations officer. 

American Medical Association innovation arm Health2047 unveiled its new community-focused and analytics-driven Medicare Advantage plan, which aims to addresses social determinants of health.

EHRs can be used to develop registries to identify and refer patients with prediabetes to prevention programs that can help manage the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to the American Medical Association.

Veradigm, Allscripts' payer and life sciences division, formed an agreement to link its ambulatory EHR data with Komodo Health's clinical encounters datasets platform to help researchers develop new ways to reduce disease burden.  

EHealth Exchange, a nationwide health information network that connects both public and private sectors, deployed its new single-connection gateway service that streamlines health data sharing between members.

Marysville, Calif.-based Adventist Health + Rideout deployed a Cerner EHR system Aug. 18.

As lawmakers work on a legislative fix for surprise medical bills, they should ensure that the solution does not put rural healthcare at risk, argued Judy Baker, a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives and former regional director for HHS.

Cerner is teaming up with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics on a competition that aims to develop ways to use de-identified data to improve patient safety and care.

Though the analysis and exchange of digitized medical data have the power to drive major progress in healthcare, actual transformation will not happen until data silos have been thoroughly broken down.

The University of North Florida in Jacksonville has selected 14 early-stage startups, several of which are in the healthcare sector, to join UNF's new Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Jacksonville Daily Record reports.

HHS is doling out $107 million to 1,273 community health centers to improve quality, efficiency and value.

Even the nation's top business schools are losing MBA applicants, Forbes contributor John Byrne writes.

Following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, HHS employees were instructed not to post about mental health, violence or mass shootings on social media accounts without approval from senior officials, The Washington Post reports.

New York, New York City, Connecticut and Vermont have filed a joint lawsuit against the Trump administration over its public charge rule, which seeks to keep immigrants from obtaining permanent residency if they have used public benefits like food stamps or Medicaid, CNBC reports.

Physician assistants and nurse practitioners represent the top fastest-growing jobs in 13 states, according to a CareerBuilder analysis cited by MarketWatch.

Pam Guler, vice president and chief experience officer for Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, discusses how her role has expanded beyond overseeing federally mandated patient surveys, aligning thousands of team members around the same vision and mission and the core tenets of service at AdventHealth.