In this episode, Amy Assenmacher, RN, Senior Vice President of Revenue Cycle at Corewell Health, discusses margin pressure, payer challenges, and rising self pay trends, and shares how front end excellence, automation, analytics, and resilient leadership can transform the revenue…
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In this episode, Dr. Zafar Chaudry, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer and Chief AI and Information Officer at Seattle Children’s, shares how the organization is deploying agentic AI for clinical pathways, ambient documentation and translation tools, while strengthening cybersecurity,…
When Michael Kupferman, MD, became CEO of Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health in late June 2025, he brought a special background that not all health system executives have: decades of work as a physician. Dr. Kupferman completed his residency in…
In this episode, Sheri Johnson, former Vice President of Member Enrollment and Billing at UCare, shares insights on how payer and provider relationships are evolving under cost and workforce pressure, where strategy and operations often misalign, and why AI is…
Chicago-based UChicago Medicine has partnered with Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare to develop a pipeline of clinical health IT leaders through a new chief medical information officer training program. The collaboration, formalized in November, supports Taiwan’s effort to build…
The American Hospital Association is calling on federal health officials to reduce regulatory barriers and ensure clinician oversight as artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into clinical care. In a Feb. 23 letter to the Department of Health and Human Services,…
In a deal worth $7.8 billion, Gilead Sciences has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Arcellx, a biotech company developing a cell therapy for multiple myeloma. Gilead announced the acquisition agreement a few months after Arcellx published positive data from…
A Novo Nordisk-led study comparing CagriSema, its GLP-1 drug candidate for obesity, found that Eli Lilly’s Zepbound resulted in greater weight loss. The open-label, head-to-head trial analyzed the average weight loss among adults who received weekly injections of either CagriSema…
Here are eight health systems that have made revenue cycle vice president hires in 2025: 1. Kettering (Ohio) Health named Murry Ford has been named vice president of revenue cycle. 2. West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health named Christy Pehanich assistant…
In 2025, 85.7% of pharmacy school graduates passed the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination on their first attempt, according to data from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. The NAPLEX assesses an individual’s competence to practice as a pharmacist…