There is a graveyard in healthcare AI that never appears in health system announcements or investor decks. It is filled with tools that earned high accuracy scores in validation studies, wowed executives in demonstrations, and generated genuine excitement in pilots…
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New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is partnering with HeartBeam, a medical technology company, to develop and validate a new AI-electrocardiogram algorithm. HeartBeam’s flagship product is its 12-lead ECG home monitoring system, which includes synthesis software…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health opened WellSpan Newberry Hospital in Newberry Township, Pa., on March 10, expanding the system’s footprint in central Pennsylvania. Five notes: 1. The microhospital is the system’s 10th hospital across Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland, according to…
Ask a Revenue Cycle Leader is a new series featuring insights from health system and hospital revenue cycle executives nationwide. Becker’s poses questions on the most pressing issues in healthcare finance — from payer relations and automation to workforce and…
Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System named LaKeeya Tucker, DO, chief medical officer of Memorial Hospital Miramar (Fla.) and Pembroke Pines, Fla.-based Memorial Hospital Pembroke. Dr. Tucker will partner with clinical and operational leaders to support quality outcomes, advanced patient safety,…
Hospitals and health systems are navigating one of the most complex payer environments in recent years. Rising denial rates, evolving value-based payment models, regulatory shifts and persistent cost pressures are forcing providers to rethink how they approach payer partnerships, contracting…
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has partnered with Compass Surgical Partners, Coastal Health and local physicians to operate Middleburg Surgery Center in Jacksonville. The partnership has taken ownership of the 5,500-square-foot ASC, a multispecialty facility which supports procedures in orthopedics, urology,…
Across the nation, hospitals and universities are implementing financial incentive programs to recruit new and experienced nurses. Many of these incentives were developed or enhanced in response to staffing challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, Candace Mori, PhD, RN, senior vice…
There are moments in healthcare technology that feel genuinely different from what came before. The shift to electronic health records was one, the rise of value-based care was another. And now, according to Mac Boyter, research director at KLAS Research,…
Arnim Dontes, deputy dean for finance and administration at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., was appointed CFO of Yale New Haven Health, CEO Christopher O’Connor told Becker’s in a phone interview. Mr. Dontes will begin his new…