Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health’s outsourcing of IT service desk and applications support work will affect 557 positions, according to a WARN notice filed with Michigan’s Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. The Catholic health system announced the outsourcing plan June…
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Anindita “Annie” Saha, director of the FDA’s Division of Digital Health Outreach within the Digital Health Center of Excellence, has left the agency after more than 21 years. Ms. Saha’s exit ends a tenure that spanned multiple leadership roles inside…
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…
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…
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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…
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…