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…
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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…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Sept. 30 establishing new safeguards for clinical judgment and addressing bias in AI tools used in healthcare. The measures are part of a broader package of AI laws protecting workers and consumers. The healthcare…
Baptist Health Central Alabama said a third-party vendor’s server outage disrupted its IT systems, according to a Sept. 29 Facebook post. The health system said all three of its hospitals remained open, with clinical teams using downtime procedures to support…
Interoperability may be the most visible sign of fragmented hospital technology, but health IT leaders say the problem can begin much earlier, with how systems are selected, governed and built into clinical workflows. “The easy answer is interoperability, but that’s…
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About 95% of healthcare providers and payers rank software and digital technology among their five highest strategic priorities, with most expecting to increase spending, according to research from Bain & Company and KLAS Research published Sept. 23. The findings come…
New York City-based Tennr, a patient orchestration platform that has raised $162 million in venture funding, hired John Capaldi as chief revenue officer and added two enterprise sales executives to scale its go-to-market organization. Mr. Capaldi brings more than 25…
The hospitals on the U.S. News & World Report pediatric Honor Roll rarely change. Neither, it turns out, do the people running their IT departments — eight of the 11 CIOs here have held their current title since at least…
CHICAGO — September 15, 2026 — GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) today announced CareIntellect™ for Operations, a new AI-enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application designed to help health systems forecast capacity constraints up to 72 hours in advance, providing comprehensive unit-, department-, and…
Call it planned obsolescence for the C-suite: Several health IT leaders say the chief AI officer title is built to disappear, folded back into the CIO’s job once AI stops being a special initiative and starts being how the organization…