The FDA has selected the first four companies to participate in its pilot program for digital health devices tied to chronic disease care. In late July, Dexcom became the first participant in the Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes for Digital Health…
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Ten health systems are making targeted workforce reductions affecting IT and coding roles as organizations look to streamline operations and manage costs. Here are the health systems and hospitals making these cuts in 2026, as reported by Becker’s: September: Palo…
The American Medical Association has named Jennifer Goldsack senior vice president and inaugural leader of its Center for Digital Health and AI. Ms. Goldsack joins the AMA from the Digital Medicine Society, or DiMe, a nonprofit she founded in 2019…
Nearly 50 hospitals and health systems had publicly accessible webpages that revealed healthcare workers’ schedules and, in some cases, cellphone numbers through workforce management platform QGenda, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Aug. 31. The publication identified public QGenda pages associated with…
In nearly every conversation I have with health system leaders, scale is part of the agenda. They are trying to reduce siloed point solutions, simplify increasingly complex technology environments, and extend successful capabilities across hospitals, regions and service lines. Yet…
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Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System made a strategic investment in PartsSource, deepening an existing partnership with the healthcare technology platform. PartsSource, headquartered in Hudson, Ohio, operates an enterprise platform that unifies parts sourcing, service contracts, asset intelligence and workforce capacity…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has become the first health system in the U.S. to use Q-rounds, a real-time rounds coordination platform, in adult inpatient units and intensive care units. Novant Health first launched Q-rounds in its neonatal intensive care unit,…
The Department of Veterans Affairs deployed its Oracle Health EHR at three VA hospitals in Indiana on Aug. 22. The go-live covered the Northern Indiana Health Care System’s facilities in Fort Wayne and Marion, and the Richard L. Roudebush VA…
Health system IT departments saw a wave of outsourcing, targeted layoffs, leadership churn and a competing push toward retention in 2026, even as surveys show the teams left behind are stretched thin and struggling to fill the roles they need…
Two-thirds of hospital IT teams are strained or in constant “firefighting” mode, according to a new report — and even fully staffed departments aren’t immune. The Aug. 18 report from networking-as-a-service provider Nile surveyed more than 300 IT leaders, C-suite…