HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital operator based in Nashville, Tenn., has appointed several new CEOs at hospitals in multiple markets this year.

RCM technology — such as automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning — is the top revenue cycle investment priority for health systems over the next year, according to a Sept. 9 report from consulting company Guidehouse. 

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health was met with some uncertainty when it launched its pharmacogenomic program in March 2022 and became one of the first health systems to standardize genomic testing.

Internal promotion to CEO was the most common result of COO turnover this year, according to a Crist Kolder Associates report. 

UChicago Medicine's chief equity officer, Brenda Battle, BSN, RN, will retire at the end of the year, the academic health system said Sept. 9. 

Kaufman Hall's most recent July 2024 "National Hospital Flash" report shed a light on financial stability that is continuing to spread across hospitals in the U.S. 

Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, a Chicago-based coalition of Black board directors, seeks to address health disparities in public hospitals and community health centers with a $1.5 million grant from Kaiser Permanente.

Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health is expanding its virtual care capabilities across its hospitals.

On the heels of financial pressures and workforce shortages experienced in 2023, many hospitals and health systems are continuing to face maternity service closures in 2024.

Trinity Health and The Valley Health System were among the hospitals and health systems that tapped new CFOs in August. 

Brentwood, Tenn.-based TriStar Health, an affiliate of HCA Healthcare, has appointed Ajit Singh, MD, as division chief medical officer.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health marked a milestone for its hospital-at-home program as the health system keeps growing the care model, the Yale Daily News reported.

Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care said the health system will start using technology more "aggressively," The Gazette reported Sept. 7. 

Body Mass Index has been a widely used health metric for nearly 200 years, but now, researchers are exploring a new alternative that could provide more accurate health information and account for race and gender — body roundness index, The New York Times reported Sept. 6. 

IT unemployment hit a new high in August as organizations shift their focus to artificial intelligence, IT consulting firm Janco Associates reported.

University and health system officials are responding to a no-confidence letter against K. Craig Kent, MD, UVA Health's CEO and executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Virginia, and Melina Kibbe, MD, dean of the school of medicine.

Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly has tapped Lucas Montarce as its new executive vice president and CFO, effective immediately. Mr. Montarce was also named a member of Eli Lilly's executive committee, according to a Sept. 9 news release.

CMS is notifying nearly a million Medicare beneficiaries of a data breach in which a hacker copied patients' files.

While payroll increases and labor shortages continue to challenge hospitals, there is some good news. Wage inflation is leveling off, according to Fitch Ratings.

The Biden administration on Sept. 9 said it is finalizing a set of rules designed to eliminate loopholes and improve funding among insurers and health plans for mental healthcare services.