The OpenAI Foundation is committing $100 million to launch Breakthroughs to Follow-Through, a Common Health Coalition initiative that will use AI tools to close gaps in care delivery, the two organizations announced Aug. 13. The initiative’s first goal is to…
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The American Hospital Association sent a letter Aug. 12 urging the Consumer Product Safety Commission to keep hospital participation voluntary as the agency modernizes the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. The letter, addressed to CPSC Chairman Peter Feldman and Secretary…
About 1 in 5 second-level appeals of denied anticancer medications in Medicare Part D were overturned, according to a study published July 23 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers analyzed 4,952 second-level appeals from 2020 to 2024. Here are four things…
A phishing scam impersonating MyChart is targeting patients at health systems across the country, with fraudulent emails and texts dangling a “MyChart Medicare Kit” or “Senior Health Package” to trick recipients into clicking malicious links or handing over personal information.…
VYKAT XR (diazoxide choline), the first FDA-approved medication specifically indicated for hyperphagia in patients ages 4 and older with Prader-Willi syndrome, is facing increased safety scrutiny following reports of seven deaths and more than 100 serious adverse events. The reported…
An appeal related to a certificate of need application for Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health’s planned hospital has been dismissed. Six things to know: 1. The system can move forward with planning and development of its $250 million Cone Health Mebane…
Health system CIOs have long vetted technology vendors for security, reliability and compliance. Increasingly, they’re also being asked to answer for who those vendors are outside healthcare. The question has sharpened in recent months after Portland, Maine-based MaineHealth and New…
Emily Moorhead, president of the Macomb market at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, spent her first year building a foundation — strengthening quality metrics, deepening physician partnerships and improving financial performance. The growth question she’s now putting to her leadership team…
A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers introduced legislation Aug. 6 that would bar hospitals and other Medicare-participating facilities from forcing nurses to work mandatory overtime, backed by civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation. The Nurse Overtime and Patient…
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health named Thomas Gough executive vice president and COO, effective Sept. 14. Mr. Gough will oversee operations across the health system, according to an Aug. 12 health system news release. He spent the last decade at Raleigh,…