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New residents arrive with clinical training but often without day-one fluency in the practical skills that drive patient safety: documentation, order entry, handoffs and knowing when to escalate. Quality leaders say the gap is real but rarely surfaces as a…

Northwell Health’s northern region has nearly completed its ambient AI rollout across acute care settings, with a planned extension to nursing staff by year-end. Albert Villarin, MD, the system’s vice president and chief medical informatics officer, is already looking past…

Vizient projected medical supply expenses would rise 2.41% in 2026, citing IT services, capital equipment and surgical supplies as the main drivers. More than halfway through the year, supply chain leaders say that number is largely holding for tangible goods…

Robin Sodano is retiring as senior vice president of information services and CIO of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health, with her final day set for Sept. 1, 2026. Kendall White has been named the system’s new senior vice president of…

Hospital consolidation is picking up steam, and the most notable deals moving through the pipeline are not incremental bolt-ons. They are multibillion-dollar combinations spanning states, reshuffling metro markets and pulling once-independent flagships under national and super-regional banners. Some are cross-country…

George Miller Jr., the former CEO of Loretto Hospital in Chicago, entered into an agreement to defer prosecution on a federal conspiracy charge connected to the hospital’s embezzlement scandal, according to an Aug. 25 filing in the U.S. District Court…

Boston Scientific said in an Aug. 27 stakeholder update that “a cybersecurity incident continues to affect certain information technology systems, and the company remains in a network outage with disruption to its operations.” The Marlborough, Mass.-based company detected the attack…