The CDC is dolling out $262.5 million over five years to research centers across the U.S. The goal? To develop a national network that can forecast infectious disease outbreaks, something akin to the National Weather Service, according to a Sept. 20 Boston Globe report. 

Artificial intelligence is the new technology healthcare executives are the most excited about, according to a new study from KLAS Research and the Center for Connected Medicine, a research arm of Pittsburgh-based UPMC.

Between Sept. 20-21, Becker's reported five executive exits from hospitals and health systems: 

Physician turnover rates are increasing as more clinicians experience burnout and decide to retire early, leave the field or refresh their practice setting.

Danbury, Conn.-based Nuvance Health may not meet its debt service coverage obligations in fiscal 2023 and will therefore be likely to call in consultants, S&P Global said Sept. 21.

Michael Pencina, PhD, Duke Health's chief data scientist, says he aims for the health system to be an organization that many come to for guidance when it comes to algorithms, The Chronicle reported Sept. 20. 

IT leaders from CommonSpirit, HCA Healthcare and Sutter Health have been appointed as council members to health tech company Augmedix's AI Advisory Council. 

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network have inked an affiliation agreement to expand on their long-standing relationship. 

Michael Howell, MD, chief clinical officer of Google Health, said in a Sept. 20 JAMA article that AI is going to be tasked with assisting people in things that take them away from the bedside and away from "the cognitive, procedural or emotional work of being a clinician."

A number of hospitals and health systems are trimming their workforces or jobs due to financial and operational challenges. 

Here are 55 health systems with strong operational metrics and solid financial positions, according to reports from credit rating agencies Fitch Ratings, Moody's Investors Service and S&P Global in 2023. 

Becker's asked C-suite executives from hospitals and health systems across the U.S. to share their organization's areas of growth for the next few years. 

Sara Carmack, MSN, RN, has been named chief nursing officer of Saint Mary's Health Network in Reno, Nev., the organization said in a September LinkedIn post. 

In a lawsuit filed Sept. 21 against U.S. Anesthesia Partners and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity firm, the Federal Trade Commission alleges that the two companies executed an anticompetitive scheme to consolidate anesthesiology practices in Texas, drive up the price of services and boost their profits.  

Diligent Robotics plans to expand its Moxi robot systemwide at most of its 22 health system clients after receiving a $25 million cash infusion Sept. 21.

Nine West Virginia healthcare sites, including some operated by two of the state's largest providers, will receive approximately $19.3 million in federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a Sept. 21 report in The Inter-Mountain.

The following leadership moves made by women have been reported by or shared with Becker's since June 29:

With masking policies now left in the hands of individual hospitals and health systems to decide, one thing is clear: There is no one-size-fits-all approach for the infection control measure this fall. 

Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center broke ground on a $668 million research facility Sept. 20, Houston Business Journal reported.

Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would address the pay gap between clinical and faculty nursing positions in order to reduce the nursing shortage.