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…
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At the opening keynote of Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference in Chicago, two health system technology leaders set up the argument that would carry through the rest of the week: The hardest problems facing…
St. Louis-based Ascension scaled a digital outreach campaign to 179,711 unique patients across 12 states, resulting in 73,253 preventive care appointments scheduled within 14 days of initial outreach. The campaign prompts patients to schedule annual wellness visits and is featured…
Apple has unveiled Apple Watch Series 12, introducing a new Health Sensing System the company says delivers the most accurate heart rate sensing of any wearable device. The tech giant built the feature around new optical and electrical heart sensors…
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…
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…