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The healthcare supply chain has entered a new era of sustained uncertainty. Geopolitical instability, tariffs, raw material shortages, cybersecurity threats and pharmaceutical shortfalls have made volatility a permanent feature of the operating environment. Community hospitals feel this pressure most acutely.…

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Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, which operates 189 hospitals and about 2,600 ambulatory sites in 19 states and the United Kingdom, has named new CEOs at six of its hospitals since Sept. 1. Here are the moves: 1. Sean Patterson is…

Monday morning is when the cost of inconsistent patient access surfaces — unmet demand, backed-up calls, stretched staff and provider capacity that patients cannot reach. For specialty practices, access is no longer just an operational headache; it’s a growth lever.…

Oct 15, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Marie D’Aiuto, VP of Patient Access Innovation, Assort Health
  • Michael T. Rohmiller, M.D., Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, Strategic Advisor, Assort Health

Supply savings work tends to end at the contract. Price is negotiated, the line item improves and the program reports a win. Underneath that win, two physicians perform the same procedure and consume different supplies at different cost. Reimbursement does…

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  • Allen Passerallo, Senior Vice President, Physician Preference, Vizient Inc.
  • Ian O’Malley, Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing, University of Chicago Medicine

Vail (Colo.) Health rolled out Epic on Oct. 3, bringing records from its providers and services into a shared EHR system. The transition follows Vail Health and Colorado Mountain Medical’s 2019 partnership announcement, which identified medical record integration and improved…

Inpatient CDI has traditionally depended on disruptive retrospective queries, fragmented workflows, and clinicians revisiting the record days or weeks after discharge. What changes when context and documentation guidance arrive during the encounter, while the clinical context is still fresh? Health…

Oct 15, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Carlos Armando Aguilar, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, The Christ Hospital Health
  • Samuel Y Ash, MD, Chief Information Officer, South Shore Health

University of Chicago Medicine filed a certificate of need application Sept. 28 with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board, moving forward with plans to build a nearly $328 million clinical laboratory in the city’s Washington Park neighborhood. The…

Average starting salaries for certified registered nurse anesthetists fell about 1% year over year, to $286,250, according to a Sept. 16 white paper from AMN Healthcare.   The “2026 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” report includes data from…

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