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Digital innovation must bring down healthcare costs, the American Hospital Association’s incoming board chair said. EHRs added expenses and “didn’t connect our clinicians to the patients,” Marc Boom, MD, president and CEO of Houston Methodist, said during a Dec. 17…

Salem (Ore.) Health Hospitals and Clinics and Stayton, Ore.-based Santiam Hospital and Clinics have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to explore a potential affiliation. The goal is to evaluate how Santiam Hospital could become part of Salem Health, improving…

The American Medical Association is revving up to help healthcare providers safely implement AI in 2026. AI “isn’t the future of the practice of medicine. This is happening now,” AMA CEO and Executive Vice President John Whyte, MD, said at a…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has vetoed a bill that aimed to give people in the state more control over their health data. The New York Health Information Privacy Act would have extended HIPAA-like protections to consumer health data used…

Health systems continued to enlist Big Tech in their digital transformations in 2025, with new AI agents entering the healthcare workforce. Here are 10 partnerships that stood out from the past year: 1. Cleveland Clinic and Amazon One Medical expanded…

CMS published plans Dec. 23 for its voluntary “Better Approaches to Lifestyle and Nutrition for Comprehensive hEalth” — or BALANCE — model. The announcement comes weeks following the White House’s agreements with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to apply most-favored-nation…

Oklahoma City-based OU Health has signed a letter of intent to acquire the Dean McGee Eye Institute, also in Oklahoma City. The transaction, which is expected to be finalized by Jan. 1, will create the OU Health Dean McGee Eye…

As hospital and health system CEOs work to advance key strategies in 2026 — from ambulatory investments to artificial intelligence integration — which numbers are guiding them? While there is no single metric shaping strategy, four executives told Becker’s they…

New York City-based New York-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital will pay $6.8 million to resolve allegations it improperly paid a Westchester, N.Y.-based oncology practice to induce referrals later billed to Medicare and Medicaid, according to a Dec. 22 Justice Department news…

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare is implementing an interim leadership plan in its Western Region following the resignation of Lisa DeKezel, president of St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg, Ill., and Holy Family Medical Center in Monmouth, Ill. Zach Yoder has…