Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health now has 242 artificial intelligence applications live across its hospitals, up from 230 last year. “We are expanding our use of AI across CommonSpirit by deploying new capabilities and scaling the most impactful of our existing tools,”…
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Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has developed a new AI foundation model that can extract disease risk signals from routine brain MRIs. The model was trained on nearly 49,000 brain MRI scans and outperformed task-specific AI models, according to a…
Thomas Fogarty, MD, a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery and creator of the Fogarty catheter, died December 28 at 91, Medscape reported Feb. 5. Dr. Fogarty graduated with his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in…
Kimberly Blaha has been appointed president and chief administrative officer of Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix. In her new role, Ms. Blaha will focus on clinical excellence, physician collaboration and patient-centered care, according to a Feb. 4 LinkedIn post…
Fifty-nine percent of healthcare executives said physician specialists are the most difficult clinical job to fill, according to a Covista report. “Covista Care Capacity Monitor” polled 167 healthcare executives and 1,347 healthcare clinicians across disciplines and geographies between Nov. 4…
KLAS Research, a healthcare IT data and insights company, released its annual “Best in KLAS” report Feb. 4. Best in KLAS, now in its 28th year, draws on tens of thousands of provider evaluations to identify the top-performing solutions in…
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…
The last 12 months have been challenging for many hospitals and health systems as margins remained tight and federal policy changes directly impacted hospital funding. But things may be looking up. Strata released its “Monthly Healthcare Industry Financial Benchmarks” report…
In this episode, Dr. David Marcozzi, Chief Clinical Officer at University of Maryland Medical Center and Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs at the School of Medicine, discusses implementing high reliability practices, expanding access to specialized care, and preparing for the…
In this episode, Sham Firdausi, Deputy Chief Financial Officer of County of Santa Clara Health System, shares how a mission driven finance and revenue cycle strategy is helping one of the nation’s largest public health systems navigate historic funding headwinds.…