Denver Health, alongside the city and county of Denver, have updated the health system's $70 million operating agreement with 35 changes to the original document, the Denver Gazette reported Nov. 15. 

OptrumRx, UnitedHealth's pharmacy benefit manager, will keep AbbVie's best-selling rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira on its formulary in 2023 alongside three competing biosimilar versions set to debut next year, Bloomberg reported Nov. 15.

Women constitute 27 percent of CIOs at Fortune 500 companies, yet only 8 percent of tech CEOs overall, according to a new report from Women Business Collaborative.

Nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association are speaking out in opposition of a proposed merger between Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Minneapolis-based Fairview Health.

Connected sleep device maker ResMed and Alphabet's life science offshoot Verily have partnered to create Primasun, an end-to-end solution to help employers and healthcare providers identify populations at risk for complex sleep disorders.

Ascension has partnered with experience management company Qualtrics to use its tools to help transform how it gathers patient feedback.

Having served as a Cerner executive and now a children's hospital CIO, Matt MacVey has seen health IT from both sides of the business.

Stoddard Manikin, chief information security officer at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, said hackers are targeting children's hospitals to use data from pediatric health records to apply for loans, BankInfoSecurity reported Nov. 15. 

Louisville, Ky.-based Advantum Health has selected Tammy Taylor as its CEO and Chris Taft as its CFO.

Rural hospitals and health centers face a myriad of challenges. The University of North Carolina's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research in Chapel Hill compiled a list of the 184 rural hospital closures since January 2005.

The executives featured in this article are all speaking at the Becker's Healthcare 13th Annual Meeting April 3-6, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago.

Kaiser Permanente Ventures led a $12 million funding round for Validic, a digital health company focused on remote patient monitoring.

Grangeville, Idaho-based Syringa Hospital is bringing in a new CFO, with Betty Watson stepping down after 32 years in the position, the Idaho County Free Press reported Nov. 16.

The Children's Hospital Association and American Academy of Pediatrics are calling on federal officials to declare a national and public health emergency to free up resources and give hospitals more flexibility to respond to an "alarming surge of pediatric hospitalizations" from respiratory syncytial virus and flu.

Physicians at Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Hospital, represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents, held a rally Nov. 15 amid contract negotiations, The Washington Post reported.

Cynthia Hundorfean has served as president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network since February 2016. But she is taking on a new enterprise role once the new year arrives: chief living health development officer. 

Lewisburg, Pa.-based Evangelical Community Hospital is changing its EHR to Epic and will go live with the new system Dec. 4.

Generation Z job seekers are prioritizing company culture around sustainability over hefty pay, according to a Nov. 13 Fortune article. As a result, they are not likely to bite on shallow morals, nor are they afraid to call them out. 

Hill Country Memorial Hospital in Fredericksburg, Texas, has entered into an agreement to become part of San Antionio-based Methodist Healthcare System, according to the Fredericksburg Standard Radio-Post.

Salt Lake City could have a new downtown hospital if plans from Intermountain Healthcare come to fruition, a Nov. 15 report from Building Salt Lake said.