As technology works its way into nearly every corner of hospital operations, health system CIOs are confronting a practical question: If an initiative touches technology, does IT have to own it? Sheri Strobel, CIO of Temple Terrace, Fla.-based Chapters Health…
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A bipartisan group of 32 House members is urging CMS to reconsider its proposed remote patient monitoring restrictions in the 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The Oct. 2 letter to CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, was led by Reps. David…
Leadership changes reported by Becker’s in 2026 show some health systems adding digital oversight, data analytics and hospital administration to CIO portfolios, while one search explicitly assigns AI governance to the next IT leader. The changes take different forms. Some…
Montage Health and Southwest General began with modest patient access workflows: scheduling, registration and appointment reminders. As the results accumulated, the challenge shifted from demonstrating whether automation worked to deciding what to build next and how to scale without creating…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is pivoting from urgent care to virtual care in South Carolina, The Post and Courier. Novant is selling 36 of its South Carolina urgent care centers to Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health. The deal is expected to…
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Amazon Web Services awarded more than $1.8 million in cash and cloud computing credits to 11 organizations, including five children’s hospitals, through its 2026 AWS Imagine Grant Children’s Health Innovation Award, the company said Oct. 5. Recipients also get technical…
Health system technology leaders are heading into 2027 focused less on adding more technology and more on proving it can meaningfully change how healthcare works. Three health system IT leaders who spoke with Becker’s described different priorities for 2027, but…
Google says its new frontier AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, uncovered a critical vulnerability in healthcare software used by hospitals worldwide that put sensitive personal information at risk. Google-owned cybersecurity company Wiz found the flaw through its Scan for Good…
Hospitals and health systems are recruiting chief-level leaders to oversee technology infrastructure, cybersecurity and clinical informatics. Here are five organizations with searches listed on job-seeker and executive recruitment websites reviewed Oct. 2: Editor’s note: The list is not exhaustive, and…
Wakefield, R.I.-based South County Health has become the first healthcare organization in Rhode Island to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network. The network is a group of independent organizations vetted by Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and granted access to its…